Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab Summer School Keynote: 'Achieving the promise of cities that work‘

Astrid R.N. Haas held the keynote speech titled 'Achieving the promise of cities that work‘ at the 2021 Wits-TUB-UNILAG Urban Lab's Summer School 'Urban Management across Continents'. During the two-day event, master students from the Urban Management courses at TU Berlin (Germany), Wits University (South Africa) and the University of Lagos (Nigeria) presented and discussed their thesis research.
Astrid R.N. Haas is an urban economist supporting cities across Africa in strengthening their financial systems, with a focus on unleashing new opportunities for sub-national financing. Astrid has worked extensively with city governments across African and Asia in her diverse roles, including as an urban economist with the African Development Bank and Policy Director at the International Growth Centre. In 2016, she was nominated by the University of Cape Town as one of Africa’s Young Leaders
and in 2020 she received Johns Hopkins University’s 'Outstanding Recent Graduate Award‘ for her work on urbanisation.
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