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The EURA Governing Board

The EURA Governing Board has 22 members representing 18 countries: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom and USA. Here is a very brief profile of the members of the Governing Board.

Dr Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia djurlina@eizg.hr	Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic is a researcher and Head of Department for Public Sector at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. She is co-coordinator, team leader and consultant in many projects and studies regarding budgeting and development at regional and local level, intergovernmental fiscal relations, local public finance, infrastructure financing, and financing of science and education. She is consultant to government agencies, international organizations and sub-national local self-government. She is author and co author of several studies and articles on financial aspects of local and regional development, analysis of the economic and fiscal situation in local areas in Croatia, fiscal aspects of the process of decentralization, budgeting, financial analysis model for municipalities and cities and financing of education and science. She has a PhD in Regional Development Financing at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics. She has been visiting researcher and training participant at the Joint Vienna Institute, Vienna, Austria; Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain; the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, USA; the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Previously she worked as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Croatia in charge of managing and budget preparation of the Ministry, co-ordination of all activities regarding higher education, scientific research work and international scientific co-operation, co-ordination and active participation as a member of professional team that has prepared the Strategy of Science Development in the Republic of Croatia. She was responsible for planning, financing and realization of capital investment projects at Croatian universities and research institutions. Her main research interests are local and regional public finances, intergovernmental fiscal relations, local and regional development and fiscal decentralization. She is also a member of Croatian Section of European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and Economia Moderna, Economic Association. She is a member of Board of Trustees of International Graduate Business School, Zagreb with Public Liability.

Prof Rob Atkinson University of the West of England, UK rob.atkinson@uwe.ac.uk	Professor Rob Atkinson is Urban Research Director in the Cities Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol. His research interests are primarily concerned with cross-national work on urban regeneration, community participation in urban regeneration partnerships, urban social exclusion and European urban policy. He has presented papers and published on these issues throughout Europe.

Prof Alessandro Balducci Politecnico di Milano, Italy sandro.balducci@polimi.it	Alessandro Balducci, PhD, Professor of urban and territorial policies. Associate Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning of the Politecnico di Milano. President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), and member of the Board of the Italian Society of urbanists (SIU). He has directed research project for national and international institutions on the following topics: the problem of effectiveness in urban, regional and environmental planning and policies; the design and management of the planning process; the consensus building approach to urban policies; integrated approaches to urban problems.

Ulas Bayraktar IEP-Paris/University of Mersin, Turkey ulasbayraktar@yahoo.com	Ulas Bayraktar is a PhD candidate at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is at the same time researcher at the University of Mersin, Turkey. In the framework of his PhD research, he has been comparing the local political life in two Turkish cities with the objective of identifying local socio-political factors that facilitate or impede the introduction of new participatory mechanisms. His domain of interest also covers local democracy, urban politics, local governments, civic participation, leadership patterns, as well as social movements in the local politics.

Dr Laurence Carmichael University of the West of England, UK laurence.carmichael@uwe.ac.uk	Laurence Carmichael is a Research Fellow in the Cities Research Centre, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England. She currently works on the European Research Project G-FORS, exploring interactions between knowledge and modes of governance in local environment policies. She also coordinates the Atlantis transnational project that aims at developing a joint planning degree between University of Illinois at Chicago, the Politecnico di Milano and the University of the West of England. She is currently developing research partnerships and projects in the field of creative industries and is a founding member of the research cluster “Creative Industries for Sustainable Environments, Economies and Communities” (CISEEC) with academics from UWE, University of Gloucestershire and Countryside and Community Research Institute. She has worked in the past on EU funded projects, on bidding, coordination and research, and has been involved in various consultancy work for the UK government, outside agencies or voluntary bodies on research examining urban governance, community involvement and impact of projects/programmes at the local level and has been both a district and parish councillor. Laurence is a referee for the journal Métropoles, a translator for the Community Development Journal and the editorial assistant for the EURA journal Urban Research and Practice; she serves on the International Advisory Boards of the International Conference on Sustainability (www.Sustainability-Conference.com) and the International Journal on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.

Prof dr Bas Denters University of Twente, The Netherlands s.a.h.denters@utwente.nl	Bas Denters (1954) is full professor of Public Administration in the School for Management and Governance at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands). He is Program Director for the master and bachelor programs in Public Administration. He is also extraordinary professor for Urban Policy and Urban Politics and scientific director of KISS (Expertise Centre for Urban Affairs). KISS is a joint initiative of the Province of Overijssel, the five major urban municipalities in this province, the University of Twente and other regional institutions of higher education, private organisations (from the business community and civil society). He is the convenor of the Standing Group on Local Politics and Government (LOGOPOL) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). He has published on issues of urban governance, citizen involvement and local democracy. More information about his research interests and his publications can be found at his personal webpage: http://www.mb.utwente.nl/polmt/staff/Denters/

Prof dr Jens Dangschat Vienna University of Technology, Austria jens.dangschat@tuwien.ac.at	Prof Dr Jens Dangschat, Professor for Urban/Regional Sociology and Demography at the Vienna University of Technology in the Department of Spatial Development, Infrastructure and Environment Planning, since 2006 vice-director of the Department and head of the section of Sociology (ISRA). Research interests: social inequalities (new class structures, social milieux, lifestyles, scenes, networks), structural and cultural segregation patterns (poverty structures, gentification, creative industries), regulation forms (new public management, policy and discourse analysis, city management) and new roles of stakeholders in governance (of planners and social sciences, action research, new forms of communication), theory of space (social constructions and structural impacts, regulations), sustainable regional development (as a social discourse and guideline for spatial planning).

Prof Panos Getimis Panteion University, Greece pget@panteion.gr	Panos is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and head of the Laboratory of the Urban Environment and Geographic Information Systems. The Laboratory is affiliated to the department of Urban and Regional Development at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Panos' research interests include urban policy and regional development, European, national (Greek) and local governance. Recent publications include Urban and Regional Development: Theory, Analysis and Policy (1997) with G. Kafkalas; The New European Space. The new geography of European Development in Kafkalas, g. and Petrakos, G (eds) (1999) Urban governance in Europe and Citizenship.

Prof Robin Hambleton University of the West of England, UK robin.hambleton@uwe.ac.uk	Robin Hambleton is: Professor of City Leadership in the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England, Bristol; Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning and Policy and Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC); and Visiting Professor of City Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai. He was the founding President of EURA, serving as President from 1997-2002. From 2002-2007 he was Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Hambleton has wide experience of city leadership and change management in local government. He has been an Adviser to UK local government ministers, a consultant to Select Committees of the UK House of Parliament, and has written national guidance documents for councils in England, Wales and Scotland. He is the author of ten books and over 300 articles. His new book, co-edited with Jill Simone Gross, is 'Governing Cities in a Global Era. Urban Innovation, Competition and Democratic Reform' (Palgrave, 2007). This book offers a global analysis of the challenges now facing city leaders in all continents.

Prof Hubert Heinelt Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany heinelt@pg.tu-darmstadt.de	Hubert Heinelt is a political scientist and is currently Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research at the Institute for Political Science, Darmstadt University of Technology. He is also the dean of the Department for Social Science and History, Darmstadt University of Technology. He has been actively researching the urban issues for over twenty years and has published widely on the topic. Amongst other things Hubert has also been the Chair of the Standing Group on Urban Research of the German Political Science Association from 1995 to 2007.

Ms Mervi Ilmonen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland mervi.ilmonen.hut.fi	Mervi, Ilmonen, Senior Research Fellow in Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, a multidisciplinary research institute which also provides postgraduate tuition and further education for planners. She has a background in social policy, human geography and urban planning. She is a long time editor of the Finnish Journal of Urban Studies, the main scientific urban research journal in Finland. She has been co-ordinating the PhD program in Urban and Planning Studies, a joint program of HUT and Helsinki University and has therefore an interest in researchers training and mobility issues. She has researched and written in the field of urban policy, housing policy, social exclusion, differentiation, urban culture and cultural planning. Lately she has been researching the new urban professionals and the impact of new technology in the differentiation between areas. Other key research interests relate to urban theory. She is also interested in gender issues.

Prof Folke Johansson Göteborg University, Sweden folke.johansson@pol.gu.se	Folke Johansson, professor at the Department of Political Science, Göteborg University. Formation of political opinions could be seen as a common denominator for my research interests. More specific, the two dominating fields have been local democracy and mass media. With regard to mass media I have studied the evaluation of news and the possible influence of news ideologies on the selection of news, both domestic and foreign. Starting as a by-product of these news studies I have also tried to follow and explain the opinions about the use of nuclear power in Sweden. Since the late 1970's I have been involved in studies of local democracy. My main focus has been the political attitudes and political behaviour of citizens. In addition to that I have also studied the functioning of the local political representative system especially searching for differences with relation to size of the local authority. Lately evaluations of neighbourhood councils have been one focus together with evaluations of the formation of a new regional authority in west Sweden.

Dr Jan Erling Klausen Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Norway jan.e.klausen@nibro.no	Jan Erling Klausen is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) in Oslo. A full-time researcher since 1994, he received his Dr. rer. pol. in political science in 2004. Jan Erling's main research interests relate to the fields of local government studies, regional development and Climate Change governance. In recent years he has increasingly been involved in European comparative research, as a national team leader in two EU framework projects (PLUS and G-FORS) as well as in co-ordinating a bid for framework 7. He is Practice Editor for the journal "Urban Research and Practice".

Prof Christian Lefèvre LATTS-ENPC, France lefevre@descartes.enpc.fr	Christian Lefèvre, is Professor at the Institute for Urban Affairs of the University Paris 8 and Researcher at LATTS, a research laboratory devoted to the study of the relationships between territories, technics and societies. His main areas of interest are comparative studies on metropolitan government and governance, on economic development, on urban strategies and on the international relations of cities. He is currently working on a comparison on the relations between globalization and the governance of London, New York, Paris and Tokyo. He has directed several European wide comparative research networks and written several books and articles on these matters. He has recently (in 2007) co-directed an issue of Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy on "the international relations of cities". He is and has been an expert for the OECD on Urban Governance, for the United Nations Habitat, the Inter-American Bank for Development, for the European Commission and several French national and local public and private bodies and other European local authorities associations in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.

Dr Jacob Norvig Larsen Danish Building and Urban Research, Denmark jnl@sbi.dk	Jacob Norvig Larsen is Senior Researcher at Danish Building and Urban Research. He has a background in human geography and business economics. He is specialised in the study of participation, organisational learning, innovation and production of knowledge in commercial organisations as well as public organisations and NGOs. Currently his main fields of research are urban industrial development, urban planning, and integrated approaches to urban regeneration.

Asso Prof Liliana Padovani Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy Padovani@iuav.it	Liliana Padovani is Associate Professor in Urban and Territorial Policies at the Faculty of Planning and a member of the executive council of the Department of Planning, DP of the IUAV-University, Venice. She has been involved in major research projects on housing and urban regeneration and has acted as consultant for a number of public and private bodies, including the Ministry of Public Works in Algiers, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a number of research institutes (Cresme in Rome, Ilres in Genova, Irer in Milan) and various city councils. At present, she is working at a research project financed by the EU: Neighbourhood Governance. Capacity for Integration, she took part of a research group, set up by the Italian Ministry of Public Work, to analyse and evaluate the variety of practices developed within Community initiative Urban in Italy. She has researched and written in the field of housing rehabilitation and urban redevelopment strategies. Recent relevant publications include editing Urban change and housing policies. Evidence from four European countries (1995);'Housing policy in Italy' in Housing policies in Europe (1996, ed P. Balchin), (1998),'Public and private partnerships in urban regeneration programs' in Housing in Transition - Conference Proceedings (1998 ed B.Cernic et al), (with G. Laino)(2000)'Le partenariat pour rénover l’action publique. L’expérience Italienne', Pole sud. She is an active participant, and from 1994 to 2002 Vice Chair of the Co-ordination Committee, in the European Network for Housing Research. She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Anne Querrien Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, France anne.querrien@developpement-durable.gouv.fr	Anne Querrien, masters in sociology and urbanism, is the editor of Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, the main french urban research journal, subsidised by the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development and Planning. This journal is written independently by researchers, and read by researchers and practitioners. She teaches urban sociology in the Universities of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris VIII Saint Denis. She is also a member of AITEC (Association d'experts, techniciens et chercheurs), which is an important NGO in this field. She is a member of the management group of URBAN-NET, the ERANET for research in urban sustainability.

Dr Cristiana Rossignolo Politecnico e Universita di Torino, Italy cristiana.rossignolo@polito.it	Cristiana Rossignolo is Senior Researcher in Urban and Regional Geography at the 2nd Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin, where she teaches 'Local development' and 'Geography of the territorial development'. She has a PhD in Spatial Planning and Real Estate Market at the Polytechnic of Turin. She works at the research centre EU-POLIS sistemi urbani europei. Her main research interests are European urban policies, networks of cities, problems connected with urban and spatial development, integrated approach to urban regeneration.

Dr Paula Russell University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland paula.russell@ucd.ie	Paula Russell is a College Lecturer in the Department of Regional and Urban Planning, University College Dublin with a background in planning practice, geography and sociology. Her teaching responsibilities are focused on the social context of planning and I have responsibility for the co-ordination of a specialized study focusing on community planning. Her research interests lie in the area of urban regeneration including the community impacts of urban regeneration and the place of regeneration in the wider process of urban governance. Other key research interests relate to planning and social exclusion. Completed projects include: the Irish volume of the European Compendium of Spatial Planning Systems for the European Commission and an integrated study of Galway city as part of the European Foundation for Living and Working Condition’s work on medium sized cities. Current research projects include, a study of the provision of homeless services and their relationship with the Irish planning system and a study on residents’ associations, neighbourhood and community development.

Dr Inés Sànchez de Madariaga Universidad Politenica de Madrid, Spain imadariaga@orangecorreo.es	Dr Sànchez de Madariaga holds a tenure position at the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the School of Architecture, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Ex-Fulbright grantee, she has been visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at Columbia University, New York. She has been recently appointed to occupy the Jean Monnet professorship at the Bauhaus-Weimar School of Architecture. She has widely lectured at European and American universities. Previously she worked as assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Arpegio, Madrid's regional agency in charge of applying the regional plan. She is editor of Revista Urban, now the main Spanish professional journal specialising in urban and regional planning. She is author of three books and several dozens of articles. Her research interests include planning innovations and tools geared to the control of urban sprawal and the modernisation of planning practice. She has also a research interest in gender and planning issues.

Dr Pawel Swianiewicz (EURA President) University of Warsaw, Poland pswian@uw.edu.pl	Pawel Swianiewicz, PhD in Economics, PhD in Economic Geography, is currently a professor in the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw. His current interests include inter-governmental relations as well as local government financial and economic policies. Recently, he has been extensively involved in comparative analysis of local government systems in Central and Eastern Europe. His recent publications include: "Public Perception of Local Governments in Central and Eastern Europe" and "Consolidation or Fragmentation? The Size of Local Governments in Central and Eastern Europe" (both published by Open Society Institute in Budapest).

Dr Iván Tosics Metropolitan Research Institute, Hungary tosics@mri.hu	Iván Tosics is one of the principals of the Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI), Budapest. He is a mathematician and sociologist (PhD) with long experience in urban sociology, strategic development, housing policy and EU regional policy issues. He has published widely on these subjects and participated in a wide range of national and international research projects. As well as being involved with EURA he is an executive committee member of the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the 'Journal of Housing and the Built Environment' and for Housing Studies. Iván represents the Municipality of Budapest in the Economic Development Forum of EUROCITIES, as chair of the EDF for 2007 and 2008. He participated in the preparation of the Rehabilitation Strategy of Budapest, and is the leader of a consortium working on the medium and long term Urban Development Strategy of Budapest.

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