Virginie Vial is the executive director of the SAMOA URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in Nantes, France. She graduated from the Urban Planning Programme in 1996. She worked for Euro Disney's real estate development team before joining SAMOA in 2009.

Charles Béna is a research officer at Groupe Huit, an urban planning consultancy specialising in emerging countries. He has a Bachelor's degree at Sciences Po, in Paris and a third year at the University of Granada (Spain) He joined the first cohort of the Comparative Urban Governance dual degree.

Guillaume Saraf is the Head of Real Estate and Logistics at the University of Lille. He graduated from the Urban Planning Programme in 2000. Saraf says the real estate industry is driven by investment and ROI.

Thomas is a Policy Officer with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Sydney. He works to influence public policy around housing and homelessness services. He also works on a climate justice project with the NGO.

Cécile is project manager for prison and justice projects at APIJ. She has a Master's degree in Urban Planning and Sustainable SustainableDevelopment Law. She is trained in law and the environment with contracting authority management.

Floriane is Manager and Adaptation Lead at The Carbon Trust. She is passionate about climate change and the urban world. She has worked in Colombia, South Africa, China and the USA.

Yunqing graduated in 2017 with a Master in Governing the Large Metropolis. She is now a technical manager at C40 Cities in Beijing. Her job is to help cities manage their climate policies.

Camille Gaumont is the Cycling Project Manager at Plaine Commune, a public institution representing 9 communes to the north of Paris. She is the cycling lead for the entire area, which is half the size of Paris and home to 430,000 inhabitants.

Juan Cristellys is a Senior Consultant at Eurogroup Consulting, a strategy consulting firm based in Paris. He did his Bachelor at Sciences Po, at the Campus in South America, Spain and Portugal.

Hugo Ribadeau Dumas graduated from Sciences Po in 2013. He now works as an advisor to the Government of India. He has worked in India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in the last 6 years.