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Islam Elghonaimy did the honors of setting forth the consultation services in City Urban Planner for TEAM International office, Iraq - Kurdistan Region, 2012-2016. And as urban consultant for World Institute for Development Economics Research of the UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland on 2007 & 2012 and as City Development Strategy Consultant, for World Bank projects with Arab Urban Developing Institute(AUDI), Arab Towns Organization, Riyadh, SA Academically, in 2000 he has been accredited the Doctoral of philosophy degree. Formerly, in 1995 he has been approved the M.Sc. and B.Sc. of Architect on 1988 In 2014, he was assigned to hold down a professor rank by High commission of Universities in Egypt. has been affiliated as moderator for the academic program for many universities. Since 2012, he has been affiliated with the University of Bahrain, College of Engineering, Department of Architecture and Interior Design and External reviewer in Higher Education for many universities in Gulf Region.
 
Dr. Igor Calzada, Cardiff University, UK
 
Dr. Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA (www.igorcalzada.com/about and @ICalzada) is a Senior
Researcher on digital, urban, and political transformations from the social innovation
perspective. His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven
by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic
conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in
European (smart) cities and regions.
 He is the author of the monograph SMART CITY CITIZENSHIP recently (Nov. 2020) published
by Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/9780-12-815300-0).
 His work has appeared in the journals Journal of Urban Technology, Space and Polity,
Regional Studies Regional Science, Regional Science Policy and Practice, Transforming
Government: People, Process, and Policy (TGPPP), Sustainability, Smart Cities, Innovation:
The European Journal of Social Science Research, His is Fellow of the RSA.
 He is currently completing his new book published by Routledge entitled ‘Benchmarking City-
Regions’ (2021) and Emerald on emerging citizenship regimes (2022). At present, he holds the
following academic and policy positions:
Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) funded by the ESRC working on emerging citizenship regimes.
Senior Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford, Future of Cities and Urban Transformations ESRC Programmes, where he has been working as Senior Researcher since 2012 particularly on European Smart Cities (replicate-project.eu/city-2citylearning) and City-Regions’ (www.cityregions.org) comparative, interdisciplinary, and international research funded by EU-H2020, EU-Marie Curie, RSA Early Career Grant, and Ikerbasque Postdocotral Fellowship.
In addition to these, he serves as Senior Advisor on Digital Transformations in Urban Areas for UN-Habitat’s People-Centered Smart Cities Flagship Programme.
Until 2020, he has been serving as Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Centre for Advanced Studies and the Digital Economy Unit in the DG Joint Research Centre (JRC) on AI, Digital Transformations, Digital Rights, and Platform and Data Co-operatives.
He has more than 20 years of research/policy experience as a senior lecturer/researcher
having research, teaching, and visiting positions in several universities and research
institutions worldwide in applied social innovation/sciences intersecting cities, techno
politics, and frontier technologies: Cardiff, Oxford, Strathclyde, Aston, Vrije, Malmö,
Iceland, Ikerbasque, Deusto, University of the Basque Country, Nevada, Mondragon, and
Helsinki.
 Outside academia, he was director in the Basque regional government in the public and in the private sector at Mondragon Co-operative Corporation (www.mondragon-corporation.com).
 He holds a PhD in Social Innovation with the qualification ‘Cum Laude’ from the University of Nevada, Reno (USA) and Mondragon University, an MBA, and a BA in Political Science and Sociology with Honours, both from the University of Deusto.
 
Dr. Milica Maksić Mulalić, Institute of Urban Planning City of Niš, Serbia
Dr Milica Maksić was born in 1980 in Niš. She graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš, in 2004, as best graduate student. She received a magister of science degree in 2008 and PhD degree in 2012 at the Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade. She is the author of two scientific monographs and more than 40 papers published in international journals and proceedings of international and national conferences. At the “Institute of Urban Planning City of Niš”, where she is currently employed, she has participated in the development of more than 20 spatial and urban plans and studies, as head of expert team, member of synthesis team and a member of the expert team. She has also taken part in the development of programs in the field of housing and local development planning implemented by UN Habitat and the city of Niš. She is a member of Serbian Spatial Planners Association, Serbian Town Planners Association and Serbian Chamber of Engineers (acquired licences for the responsible planner and responsible urban planning engineer). Areas of interest: the institutional framework of planning and spatial development, large-scale retail building policies, planning experiences of developed European countries.
 
 
Dr. Husam Husain, German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt
Dr. Husam Husain is a Jordanian Architect and Urbanist, holding Ph.D. in Architecture and Urban Planning specialized in coastal territories, urban adaptation, and regeneration strategies. He has worked in various Architectural firms, besides several freelance projects. His academic activities over the past years started in the American University in Northern Cyprus before moving to Cairo in 2018, where he currently holds a position in the Architecture and Urban Design program at the German University in Cairo. These activities were developed in parallel with initiatives of organizing several conferences, seminars, workshops, and research activities in different countries and in cooperation with several institutions. Further, as design-based research always require exposure through multidisciplinary platforms; Husam is currently developing a non-profitable Research-by-Action Urban-Lab in parallel to co-managing a scientific journal, besides his role as an editorial member of several journals, which together aim at widening the urban territorial perspective through several discourses with special focus on urban transformation in the Mediterranean basin; Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Geo-Economic global contexts.
 
 
 
 Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohammad Ali Mosaberpanah, Department of Civil Engineering, Cyprus International University
Dr. Mosaberpanah is an Assistant professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Cyprus. He received his Ph.D in Civil Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University. Before he joined Cyprus International University in September 2017, he was Assistant Professor at Girne American University, Kyrenia, Cyprus, for a year. His current research interests include designing cementitious and non-cementitious materials using waste materials which are producing more sustainable materials in the construction industry. He is also interested in maximizing the quality of road pavement by minimizing the maintenance cost and pollutions in terms of a Sustainable Pavement Management System. His research also efforts the ways to monitor the road distress automatically by applying new technologies.
In his background, there are lots taught undergraduate and graduate courses and course advising of international students from more than 110 different countries, Moreover, several master students have been graduated under his supervision and many masters and Ph.D.’s are working on their thesis under his supervision. Dr. Mosaberpanah is very interested and motivated to make research and define new research projects as he published several articles and reviewed more than a hundred articles for the SCI-indexed journals. In 2018, he was invited by the Dean of Civil Engineering department of Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, and funded by Cyprus International University to conduct two research projects with the collaboration of construction materials lab researchers at the University of Laval. He is now Editor-in-chief of the International journal of Sustainable Structures and Materials.
 
Dr. Ming Hu, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,  University of Maryland,United States.
Ming Hu is an Assistant Professor at School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park, affiliate faculty in the National Center for Smart Growth. She teaches technology courses focus on the integration of architectural design with structural, materials and building performance assessment. She is an architectural practitioner, educator and researcher with vast experience in high-performance building design, lifecycle assessment and building performance measurement and benchmarking. She has more than fourteen years’ experience working on international high-profile projects with HOK from the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Her background includes training in the architectural discipline and years of practice across disciplines, which gives her a unique perspective and ability to weave these fields together in her research. Her research, teaching and outreach activities have been shaped by a domain of inquiry that does not fit in the box of “architectural discipline” or a “singular discipline.” Rather, her work centers on the intersection between green technologies and building systems, on exploring the inefficiency and vulnerability of existing design solutions, and on developing novel design technologies and frameworks to improve building performance and reduce environmental impact. Through practice, research and publications, her work comprises a coherent, integrated approach to research and professorship. She has contributed to the field of high-performance building design, particularly with her research work on net-zero building and lifecycle assessment. She has authored over 25 peer-reviewed papers and proceeding papers and over 40 technical reports. Her works have been selected as part of the Sustainability Exhibit at the 2017 United Nations Climate Change (COP23). She has conducted funded research totaling $262,783.She is author of the upcoming book “Net Zero Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences” to be published by Routledge in 2019.She is recipient of 2019 Rockefeller Bellagio Center Academic Writing Residency. She is currently the Editor for Journal of Green Building and Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. She is also investigating “Sense of Place” (SOP) from social, digital information and built environment perspectives and their relationship people’s value choices. The study of SOP in the design field present a unique opportunity to add new knowledge to this interdisciplinary topic.