Fabiola Berdiel is the Assistant Director GPIA for International Field Programs and faculty at The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. She is an educator, project manager, and sustainable development practitioner. Her research focuses on how design thinking can be used as a tool for socioeconomic development, exploring the opportunities that this new appoach can offer. Fabiola has a B.A. in Sociology and Pedagogy from Sarah Lawrence and a Masters in International Affairs from The New School. Fabiola has worked and conducted field research in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Namibia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Senegal, Israel, Nepal, India, Ireland, and Spain. She is co-founder of DEED: Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design at The New School. Currently, her practice has focused on collaborative interdisciplinary projects with Parsons School for Design, ranging from working with Fashion Studies to design a backpack for humanitarian relief workers, to partnering with Transdiciplinary Design and Design Strategies to develop a design thinking curriculum for partner organizations.
Most recently, Ellen Brennan-Galvin (Ph.D., Columbia University) was a Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University, where she taught courses for 8 years on international transportation policy and sustainability issues in developing country cities. Previously, she was Chief of the Population Policy Section of the United Nations Population Division, where she worked for more than 25 years. Over the years, Dr. Brennan-Galvin has conducted research on urbanization and urban environmental issues and is the author of more than a dozen case studies on mega-cities published by the United Nations. In connection with her work at the United Nations, Dr. Brennan-Galvin worked in some 20 mega-cities in developing countries. Among recent activities, she served for two terms on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Population, as well as on the National Academies Panel that produced Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World (2003). She has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as well as a Population Council Fellow at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University.
Bob Buckley is a Senior Fellow in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. Previously he was is an Advisor and Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, and Lead Economist at the World Bank. His work at both the Foundation and the Bank focused largely on issues relating to urbanization in developing countries. He is particularly interested in the policy issues related to slum formation and approaches to dealing with them. A good part of his past work has involved helping to prepare projects and grants related to these concerns. He has worked in more than 50 developing countries and has written widely on urbanization, housing, and development issues in the popular press such as The Financial Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and in academic journals such as The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Nature, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Economic Development and Cultural Change. His most recent book, which he co-edited with Michael Spence and Patricia Annez is Urbanization and Economic Growth. He has also taught at a number of other universities -- Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania - and served as the Chief Economist of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Finally, he has also been a Fulbright Scholar, awarded a Regent's Fellowship at the University of California, and been supported by the Marshall Fund, the Gates Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
Tom Buckley is currently the Director of Research and Technical Services at Casey Trees. Tom’s current research interests are in applications of GIS and web-based collaboration to urban ecology, to international urban development, and to humanitarian crises.
He consulted for the World Bank in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, focusing on OpenStreetMap and surveying for building damage assessments. Tom also worked as a GIS programmer at the company building GeoCommons, a startup funded by In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm financed by the CIA, and the original investors in Google Earth. While there, he worked on web-based mapping projects for USAID and the World Bank.
Tom has over 10 years of experience working with GIS software. Tom has a B.A. in Economics and Analytic Philosophy from Cornell University and an M.A. in Geography from George Washington University.
Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program. Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), and Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s. Other recent publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He is currently completing a book on Argentina's recovery from the economic crisis of 2001 which will be published in 2011-2012. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.
Margarita Gutman holds a doctorate and is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires. She is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and International Affairs at The New School, and Full Professor Consulta at the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). From 2004 to 2009 she has been Full Professor and holder of a Chair (Cátedra) of History of Architecture and Cities at the FADU-UBA. She was a Scholar at The Getty Research Institute and at the WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter, Fellow at the InternationalCenter for Advanced Studies of New York University, and Senior Fellow at the VeraListCenter for Art and Politics, The New School.
She is author and editor of 12 books, including editing the award-winning Buenos Aires 1910: Memoria del Porvenir (Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come) (1999), and Construir Bicentenarios: Argentina (Building Bicentennials: Argentina) (2005); Latin America on the Move. The Post Neo-liberal Transition (2007) co-edited with Michael Cohen, Buenos Aires 2050: imágenes del futuro / decisiones del presente (Buenos Aires 2050: Images of the Future / Decisions of the Present) (2007) coedited with Horacio Caride. She is also the co-author with the late Jorge Enrique Hardoy of Buenos Aires Historia Urbana del Área Metropolitana 1536 -2006 (Urban History of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, 1536-2006) (1992 and 2007).
Annie K. Kwon is an architect who researches and practices through large-scale building and island typologies, performance and teaching. She holds a Bachelors of Architecture and Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Her international portfolio includes the comprehensive master plan of Bahrain Bay, an artificial island off the coast of Manama as a designer with Skidmore Owings and Merrill New York, and designer for EMBT's award-winning entry for the Central European Bank Competition in Frankfurt. She has worked with James Turrell on the Roden Crater project and most recently, completed design and construction of his studio in New York City. Her interdisciplinary work includes collaborating with Benedetta Tagliabue in the scenography design for the Merce Cunningham Dance Companys internationally touring performance, Nearly 90, that premiered in April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in collaboration with Sonic Youth, John Paul Jones of Led Zepplin. She is a professor of architectural design and theory at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Her work has been featured in A+U: Tall Buildings, Abstract of Columbia University and The New Premises of the European Central Bank released by Birkhauser Boston. Annies multi-media collaboration with Paul D. Miller, The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture recently opened at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the Experimenta Biennial 2010 in Melbourne. Annie is the founder of Kwonix, an architectural design group based in New York City.
Cynthia Lawson is a digital artist, technologist and educator. Her research is in the areas of integrative and interdisciplinary education, educational technology, and media experimentation. Cynthia is fascinated with how streams of information (rss feeds, words, voicemails, photographs) can be filtered into a new medium in the creation of media art. She has taught in United States, Guatemala, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Japan. Her artwork has been internationally exhibited and performed, including at UCLA Hammer Museum, Museum of Modern Art (Bogota and Medellin), Point Ephemere (Paris) and Exit Art (NYC). Cynthias writings have been published and presented at a variety of conferences, online journals, and books, including New Media Poetics published by MIT Press. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Bogot) and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. Cynthia is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Design in the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, and an active member of Madarts, an arts collective in Brooklyn, NY.
Antina von Schnitzler is an Assistant Professor at GPIA. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2010 and has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Before joining the New School she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at Reed College. Her research and teaching has focused on citizenship and political subjectivities, cities and urban infrastructures, liberalism and neoliberalism, colonialism and postcoloniality and South Africa. She has conducted research on the corporatization of water provision in Johannesburg focusing in particular on a controversial water infrastructure project in Soweto. She is currently working on a book manuscript on citizenship, protest and neoliberal reforms in post-apartheid South Africa.
Recent Publications:
"Gauging Politics: Water, Commensuration and Citizenship in South Africa" Anthropology News, January 2010, Special Issue on the Anthropology of Water.
"Liberalism" and "Neoliberalism" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity Jr., Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2007.
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Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program. Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), and Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s. Other recent publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He is currently completing a book on Argentina's recovery from the economic crisis of 2001 which will be published in 2011-2012. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires. 
