Ditte Amskov
Ditte has been with IFHP (International Federation for Housing and Planning) since January 2017, where she has been in charge of developing new projects and reforming the organisation. She has developed new partnership projects with Nordic partners, secured the funding for them and conducted urban labs around the world with multidisciplinary international participants. Ditte has also been the architect behind the new programme IFHP Social Cities. Before joining IFHP, she worked with innovation and start-ups in the Danish Agency for research and Innovation and the Danish Innovation Fund both as a fund-manager, as advisor and as developer of new funding schemes. Prior to that, she has a long history of working with international education, conducting surveys about the benefits of studying abroad and attracting talents to study in Denmark.
Laurence Hohn
Laurence Hohn, project manager at the Ministry for Housing and Ecology has a degree in business administration (EM Lyon Business school). She worked in the private sector, as a consultant, before a long family leave. She entered the public service at the Ministry for Housing and Ecology in 2007, and spent 8 years in decentralised state services. She was recruited in 2015 by the Urban Planning and Housing director to manage large projects aimed at modernizing the processes within the national services or in their relationships with local communities.
Christophe Ouhayoun
Christophe Ouhayoun is an architect and based in Paris. He studied architecture at the National School of Architecture Paris-Belleville. In 1999, he founded KOZ architects with Nicolas Ziesel.
In 2001 he founded PLAN01, architects Collective, and PLAN02, an in-house eco-design
engineering office providing real time feedback and orientations for social and environmental responsibility in their projects.
“KOZ is a forward thinking office delivering playful commited designs. KOZ has a major focus on wood architecture and a strong belief in open design processes taking it from Paris to Mexico and Africa for projects and workshops. KOZ was finalist of the Réinventer Paris competition for innovative urban proposals, and three time winner for Reinventing La Seine & Inventing the Greater Paris Metropolis. Our 100% wood « Tête en l’Air » project in Paris is the only French project awarded the coveted Archdaily Building Of The Year prize.
KOZ is built on a young staff of 20, with an in-house environmental engineering team and develops a BIM & Craft work ow allowing real-time project assessment. Because we are serious about our social and ecological responsibilities we are on the tracks for a BCORP certification.”
Parallel with his private practice, Christophe Ouhayoun is teaching urbanism at «École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers» and he is consultant architect for the french government in Ariège, France.
Ana-Maria Elian
Ana is an urban planner specialized in Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Program Director in MKBT: Make Better. She is passionate about participatory processes of urban planning and is always trying to bring the people into the middle of any discussion or action linked to the city. Over the last 5 years, she has been involved in various research, activation and strategic planning projects in Romania, Moldova and Sweden. Currently, seeks to build links between strategic thinking of the city and community-led local action, developing action programs and tools for regenerating cities and communities in Romania, along with colleagues from MKBT: Make Better.
Bogdan Suditu
Bogdan is a geographer, having as areas of professional interest the following- territorial and housing policies, urban and spatial planning, socio-territorial disparities, etc. He has a good knowledge of the public administration for 7 years as coordinating positions in the specialized structures on housing, urban and territorial planning in the central public administration. He published articles and books on urban and peri-urban residential mobility in Bucharest, uncontrolled urban expansion, informal settlements, housing policies and social housing. Currently, he is an expert in housing and territorial planning within the MKBT organization: Make Better and associate professor at the Faculty of Geography at the University of Bucharest.
Anamaria Vrabie
Anamaria is an economist specializing in urban development. She has been consolidating organizations and new ways of action in the field of urban and regional development in Romania for 8 years, being co-founder of MKBT: Make Better and Director of the Cluj Program 2.1 | The Innovation Fund. Her work has generated urban strategies, urban regeneration guides and concepts, educational programs and new funding mechanisms for urban innovation. After graduating from the Academy of Economic Studies, she completed Master’s Degree in International Relations, Cities and Urbanism at New School New York as a Fulbright Scholar.
Irina Dobriță
Irina Dobriță has an academic background in Political Science and Anthropology and an over 15 years trackrecord in communication and marketing research. In the past 6 years she has served as strategic planning, communication and advocacy advisor to a number of NGOs active in areas like human rights defence, environment protection, education & social policies. Main projects focus on fostering public participation, inclusiveness and sustainable development at community level in both urban and rural areas of Romania.
