Rogier van den Berg is Global Director for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, leading WRI’s (World Resources Institute) program focused on more accessible, equitable, healthy and resilient cities.
Rogier is an urban planning expert, an architect and academic with more than two decades of experience. He led UN-Habitat’s Urban Lab program, that addressed urban planning demands in cities, and rapidly expanded its scope to become a multidisciplinary urban project working in 80 cities globally. Van den Berg led global teams working at the intersection of infrastructure, urban planning, urban resilience, climate change adaptation, technology, recovery and reconstruction, and public space.
He was also a founding partner of the architecture and urban planning firm Zandbelt & vandenBerg and served as head of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture’s Master of Urbanism program.