Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides

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Matti Siemiatycki is Director of the Infrastructure Institute and Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. [email protected]

Kevin Ward is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester and editor in chief of Urban Geography. [email protected]

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Prerona Das is a postdoctoral research fellow at Singapore Management University’s College of Integrative Studies. Her doctoral research was on borders reinforced by urban infrastructure in Guwahati, northeast India. As a research fellow she is currently working on a project about politics of smart city policy transfer in Southeast Asia. [email protected]

Tim Bunnell is professor of human geography and director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His urban research has included examination of the planning and development of cities in Asia, and the lives and aspirations of people who call them home. [email protected]

James D. Sidaway has served as Professor of Political Geography at NUS since 2012. Following doctoral research on the intersections of conflict, planning and territory in Mozambique, he has worked on histories of geopolitics and cross-border relations of Portugal, and on urban geopolitics in Cambodia, Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Singapore’s Indonesian borderlands. [email protected]

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Alesia Montgomery is an Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability (IoES). An ethnographer, Montgomery studies the environmental justice challenges of low-income, racialized communities. Her book, Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit, focuses on battles over green redevelopment. [email protected]

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Sawyer Phinney currently works as a labour economist for the Greater London Authority doing research on green jobs and skills. Previously, they have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool. In 2022, they completed their PhD in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Their research interests include municipal finance, racial capitalism, and transformations in urban governance. [email protected]

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Astrid Haas is an urban economist, working in both research and practice, around municipal and infrastructure finance. She is an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria and a Fellow at the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. [email protected]

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Ian Mell researches the role of Green Infrastructure as a facilitator of socio-economic and ecological enhancement. His work spans discussions of government, development, and the environment sectors in the UK and internationally. [email protected]

Tenley Conway researches the intersections of environmental geography, environmental studies, and urban ecology to improve our understanding of urban forest governance and examine patterns of trees and other urban land covers. [email protected]

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Associate Professor Cathy Oke is Enterprise Principal Fellow, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, and Associate Director (Enterprise and Impact) Melbourne Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne. She is an advisor to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and was a City of Melbourne Councillor 2008–2020. [email protected]

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1 Speaking as the IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair on the release of The Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC Working Group II report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability February 27 2022, Quoted at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/resources/press/press-release/.