Designer, urbanist etc. Director of Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previous design leadership roles include Director of Strategic Design at Swedish government’s innovation agency Vinnova in Stockholm, Associate Director at Arup in London and Sydney, CEO of Fabrica in Treviso, Strategic Design Lead at Helsinki Design Lab for the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA in Helsinki, Executive Director of the UK's Future Cities Catapult, and Head of Interactive Technology and Design for the BBC in London. Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Practice and a founder member of the Council on Urban Initiatives, a joint venture between UN HABITAT, LSE Cities and UCL IIPP. Member of Advisory Board for UCL IIPP. Advisory Board member for Open Systems Lab, Scientific Committee for Urban AI, and the editorial board of Future Observatory Journal and She Ji: Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. Previously, one of the inaugural Design Advocates for the Mayor of London, a Trustee of Participatory City Foundation, and Professor (II) at Oslo School of Architecture (AHO). Author of the books Dark Matter & Trojan horses: A strategic design playbook (Strelka Press, 2012) and Designing missions (Vinnova, 2022).