A
A
Nuno Ferreira da Cruz
Nuno Ferreira da Cruz
Contents
Bio
He is a researcher at LSE Cities, the London School of Economics' international centre for research and dissemination on urbanism. He is also coordinator of the New Urban Governance project, which aims to study multiple aspects of municipal planning and management.
He has a PhD in Engineering and Management from Instituto Superior Técnico and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering. He has published articles on local government, transparency and sustainability indices, the management and provision of urban services and public-private partnerships.
As a consultant, he has frequently worked with Transparency International (TI) and was one of the experts who coordinated the working group on urban management and institutional development at the United Nations Summit on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).
Among other projects, he was responsible for developing indicators for evaluating local governments, including the municipal transparency index.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Urban Affairs Review.

Last updated: June 2017
English