FAQ About Jens Aerts

• What is Jens Aerts's address?

  Jens Aerts is located at
  Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• What is Jens Aerts's job title?

  Jens Aerts is a Jens Aerts is a senior engineering architect and urban planner with 25 years of experience in urban practice, policy and research, working with international development agencies, city governments, developers and non-for-profit organizations. He leads the Climate Resilience Planning team at BUUR Part of Sweco. They develop system diagnostics and area-based strategies for urgent urban transitions like circular economy, healthy environments and climate adaptation. Recently he also has been working for UN-Habitat, UNESCAP UNICEF and the World Bank. He authored UNICEF’s handbook on child-responsive city planning ‘Shaping urbanization for children’ and the roadmap towards healthy urban food environments 'Children eating well in cities'. He supported the agency in program implementation of its Global Urban Strategy, including training and technical assistance on child rights, road safety and urban planning in regional and country offices (Dominican Republic, LACRO, Paraguay, Philippines, South-Africa, UAE). He has contributed to various technical reports, guides and popular articles linking urban health and sustainable urban development. Recently he has been active as member of the Advisory Board for the upcoming Street for Kids program in the Global Designing Cities Initiative. Previously he was associate partner at BUUR - Bureau for Urbanism, specialized on sustainable urban development programs and policies, such as neighborhood upgrading, green mobility planning, healthy environments, circular economy and place-making. Before that he assisted both Governments of the Flemish and the Brussels Region to build urban planning capacity in public agencies and to direct community led planning processes and key public space interventions. Jens has been teaching at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research of the University of Brussels (VUB) from 2011 until 2016 and was affiliated with the Urban Community and Health Equity Lab at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). He holds a MSc in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and obtained his MA Urban Planning at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona (Spain). He is member of the Board of the Flemish Spatial Planning Organisation (VRP) and the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP). He is a registered urban planner at the Flemish Region in Belgium.

• What industry does Jens Aerts currently work in?

  Jens Aerts currently works in the Sweco | Buur Part Of Sweco | World Bank | Ja Urban Strategies And Development |

• Which languages does Jens Aerts speak?

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• Which industries has Jens Aerts previously worked in?

  Jens Aerts has prior
  experience in the following industries:
  Unicef | United Nations Escap | Cosmopolis Centre For Urban Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Un Habitat | Service Public Regional De Bruxelles | Team Vlaams Bouwmeester | Crepain Binst Architecture | Skidmore Owings And Merrill | Manuel De Sola Morales Arquitectos | Bob 361

• What is Jens Aerts’s work experience?

  Jens Aerts has the following professional experience:
  Sweco | Buur Part Of Sweco | World Bank | Ja Urban Strategies And Development | Unicef | United Nations Escap | Cosmopolis Centre For Urban Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Un Habitat | Service Public Regional De Bruxelles | Team Vlaams Bouwmeester | Crepain Binst Architecture | Skidmore Owings And Merrill | Manuel De Sola Morales Arquitectos | Bob 361

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• What are Jens Aerts’s work email addresses?

  Jens Aerts’s work email
  addresses are
  jens.aerts@buur.be

• What company does Jens Aerts work for?

  Sweco | Buur Part Of Sweco | World Bank | Ja Urban Strategies And Development |