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As the Executive Director of Urban Planing at NEOM, Giovanna Carnevali leads the development and implementation of NEOM’s core urban development plan. This first-of its-kind model puts communities and nature at its heart and supports NEOM’s ambition to be a beacon for new ways of living and working. At beginning of 2021 Carnevali settled Architecture Department inside NEOM as the Guardianship of the Architecture Design quality across all the Regions and all the Assets Design. Carnevali has more than 20 years’ experience in the fields of urban design and architecture and a track record of designing, managing and delivering award-winning projects. During her career, she has worked in Europe and the Middle East across all stages of the design process, from concept through to detailed design, leading large multidisciplinary teams on projects of varying sizes and building typologies.
Prior to joining NEOM, Carnevali was Director of International Projects at Strelka KB, a leading think tank in the urban design space in Russia, specializing in urban planning, urban anthropology and economics. In this role, she developed and implemented master plans, architecture projects and urban standards. Carnevali has held numerous senior management and director roles as part of her long career in the industry, including at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, and co-founded her own consultancy, Self Arquitectura SLP, which undertook projects across numerous locations in Europe.
An architecture consultant at the European Commission, Carnevali is a guest lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, the Shenzhen Biennale, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona and the Moscow Urban Forum, Sci-Arch, Los Angeles. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Development and Planning from the Universitá degli Studi di Genova, a Master’s in Architectural Projects from ETSAB, Barcelona Polytechnic, and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Genoa and Barcelona universities.
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Multilingual professional with 15 years experience in an international, intergovernmental and intercultural environment managing and implementing national and international projects. Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills working with 193 countries and a network of partners in actualizing projects in UNESCO’s fields of competence namely: Education, Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information. Experienced in strategic planning and implementation of results-based programmes. Proficient in writing analytical briefs, reports and presentation of recommendations based on in-depth research
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Professor Emeritus School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics at McMaster University. Economic historian by training but research focus on the changing nature of labour markets, the rise of precarious employment and its impact on household wellbeing. See https://pepso.ca.
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Dr. Tom McDowell is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is was a lead author of Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience and several articles on basic income. He is also author of Neoliberal Parliamentarism: The Decline of the Ontario Legislature (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
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Diogo Pereira Henriques is a fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University (Denmark). He has international experience in various institutions for urban futures, digital humanities and design, international networks, climate change, human-computer interaction, and participation (Barcelona, Bristol, Eindhoven, Lisbon, Newcastle, Rome, Hong Kong, Macau). Since 2019, he is a member of the editorial board, as social media editor, of the Nexus Network Journal, published by Birkhäuser/Springer.
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Lecturer in Sociology, lead for Inclusive and Prosperous Futures as part of the University of Manchester Sustainable Futures Platform.
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Dr. Ana Helman is a Science Officer with the European Science Foundation - Science Connect based in Strasbourg, France. She is currently managing activities related to research infrastructures that include landscape and services mapping, cataloguing and the assessment of socio-economic impact. She is also involved in the Graphene Flagship, one of Europe’s biggest research initiative funded by the EU as European Alignment Officer responsible for co-ordination and alignment between EU and national research programmes as well as international collaborations with the USA, Korea, Japan, China and Australia.
She has extensive (10+ years) experience in managing large-scale research programmes and networks, and coordinating strategic work of expert committees. She has been expert evaluator and member of two advisory groups for the European Commission (DG Research) and has collaborated with the OECD on a policy paper.
During 2012-2014 she was working at the US National Science Foundation’s Europe-Eurasia Office at the US Embassy in Paris on promoting collaboration between US and European researchers and research funding organisations.
Her scientific background is in semiconductor physics and he has worked as researcher both in academia, with a PhD from the University of Paris Sud France, and
in industry, at Philips Research laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Ana is fluent in English, French, Italian and Croatian, and has basic knowledge and understanding of German and Dutch.
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Daniel is an Associate Professor in Data Science & Innovation Economics at the Aalborg University Business School, where he leads the Data Science research track at the AI:Growth lab, and coordinates teaching at the Social Data Science (SDS) master specialization. His research is dedicated to the development and application of data-driven methods to map, understand, and predict technological change, and its causes and consequences for socioeconomic systems on various levels of aggregation. His current contextual focus is the dynamics of AI research and industry.
His research is featured in leading academic journals such as Research Policy, but also attracted attention and funding from the industry, and lead to price-winning applications. Daniel is actively engaged in initiatives to educate (social science) students and researchers, professionals, and policymakers in understanding, evaluating, and applying modern Data Science and Artificial Intelligence methods for data-driven decision making.
As part of the AI:DK project, he coordinates and leads AI proof-of-concept projects within industry. His team also develops enterprise and policy software solutions for IP search and technology mapping.
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I am an interdisciplinary urban researcher who works on the intersection of cities, technology, and justice, with a focus on sustainability, visualization, digitalization, communication, and mediatization. Although an Egyptian-born and raised woman, given my international experiences across Africa, Europe, the USA, and Asia, I define myself as a cross-border global citizen who is inspired by local stories. My personal vision is to tackle global inequalities by producing and transferring impactful knowledge for the design of sustainable and equitable smart cities.
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Alistair obtained his DPhil in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 2005, was a lecturer at Queen’s College Oxford then helped lead the neural impedance imaging group at UCL, London while teaching in Electrical Engineering. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at Philips Forshung labatorium (Germany) in medical signal processing before moving back to Sydney in 2009 to start his research group in paediatric, cardiac and neural bioelectronics at University of Sydney. He is passionate about engineering technology innovation to solve problems of real clinical need. His research focuses on harnessing advancing technology and innovation to accelerate the search for new and improved treatments and interventions for childhood disabilities and illnesses.