INFORMATION ABOUT SPEAKERS

Uwe S. Brandes
Senior Vice President, Initiatives
Urban Land Institute (ULI)

Mr. Brandes leads ULI’s global initiatives on Climate Change, Land Use and Energy (CLUE) and The City in 2050.

Prior to ULI, Mr. Brandes was Vice President of Capital Projects at the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation in Washington D.C and Associate Director of the D.C. Office of Planning where he managed the award winning Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, an unprecedented inter-governmental partnership between the District of Columbia, the U.S. General Services Administration, the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service to redevelop the shores of the Anacostia River in the nation’s capital.

Mr. Brandes was a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University Dortmund and a Paul Sun Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has degrees in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College and Architecture from Harvard University.