Adriana Allen

• Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability, UCL

Adopting a feminist political ecology perspective, I aim to promote dialogue and transdisciplinary collaboration while encouraging new framings and approaches to global societal challenges. Through the lens of housing, land, water, sanitation, food, health, and risk, my research examines the interface between everyday city-making practices and planned interventions, focusing on their capacity to produce transformative social and environmental relations and outcomes.

Originally from Argentina, I have 35 years of international experience in research, postgraduate teaching, advocacy, and advisory services in almost 30 countries across the Global South. I have been an academic at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL) since 1997, where I founded and led, for many years, a prestigious Master's in Environment and Sustainable Development and a research cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience (EJUR). I also led the UCL Grand Challenge on Sustainable Cities and served as the Vice Dean for International Engagement at The Bartlett from 2019 to 2022. I was the President of Habitat International Coalition (HIC) between 2019 and 2023, and a regular advisor to UN bodies, drawing on capacities from which I am actively engaged in advancing urban justice through policy evidence, public engagement, and the promotion of international collaboration.

My most recent books include Untamed Urbanisms (2015), Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Global South (2017), Urban Water Trajectories (2017), Handbook of Urban Global Health (2019) and Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (2020).

• –present Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability, UCL
• 2019–2023 President, Habitat International Coalition (HIC)

• 2011 UCL, PhD in Planning Studies

Doctorate Honoris Causa awarded by the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina

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