Adriana Allen

Adriana Allen is the President of Habitat International Coalition (HIC) and Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL). Originally from Argentina, Adriana has over 30 years of international experience in action-research, pedagogy, activism and advisory and capacity-building in over 25 countries across the Global South. Through the lens of land, housing, risk, water, sanitation, food and health, her work adopts a justice and feminist perspective to look at the interface between social learning, everyday city-making practices and planned interventions and their capacity to generate transformative spaces, places and social relations.