Dyfed Aubrey
Leader of UN-Habitat’s European Office, advancing sustainable urban development and crisis recovery in cities worldwide.
Joining the URBANISM: Place-making & Place-mending panel discussion is Dyfed Aubrey, Chief of Office at the UN-Habitat Office for Europe, working closely with EU institutions and European Member States. He previously served as a senior policy advisor at UN-Habitat HQ, where he launched the SDG Cities Global Initiative aimed to help 1,000 cities become more sustainable. Dyfed has also headed UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Arab States in Cairo whose work centred on urban crisis recovery programmes for Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya and Palestine. He previously worked with NGOs in Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Kosovo and before working internationally was an architect in London. He holds a master’s in development planning from University College London.