Adrian Atkinson
specialises in local economic development and the urban informal economy; urban environmental planning and management; project formulation and evaluation; and training.
Résumé | CV | Publications | a.atkinson@dpu-associates.net
Jo Beall
specialises in urban development and local governance; cities in situations of war and conflict; urban violence and human security; decentralisation and local government; formal and informal institutions in urban service delivery; traditional authorities in local governance; urban poverty; social exclusion; gender.
Résumé | CV | Publications | jo.beall@dpu-associates.net
Edesio Fernandes
is a lawyer specialising in research and consultancy in land rights and urban and environmental law; land and urban planning, policy and management; informal land markets, regularisation and registration; constitutional law and human rights in developing and transition countries.
Résumé | CV | Publications | e.fernandes@dpu-associates.net
Nigel Harris
specialises in urban and economic development/economics of migration; urban economic analysis; urban metropolitan economic planning; managing the city economy; urban labour markets employment and poverty reduction.
Résumé | CV | Publications | nigel.harris@dpu-associates.net 
Michael Mattingly
specialises in urban land management, including planning; peri-urban land management and livelihoods; capacity building, including training.
Résumé | CV | Publications | m.mattingly@dpu-associates.net
Patrick McAuslan
specialises in Land Law and Policy; Natural Resources Law; and Local Government.
Résumé | CV | p.mcauslan@dpu-associates.net
Desmond McNeill
is a development economist, specialising in foreign aid policy; sustainable development; multilateral organisations; the relationship between research and policy; development ethics; interdisciplinary research.
CV | Publications | desmond.mcneill@dpu-associates.net
Sheilah Meikle
specialises in social development; the design, implementation and evaluation of socially sensitive development policies, programmes and projects and the execution of training programmes; poverty, sustainable livelihoods, governance, involuntary resettlement, energy, water and sanitation and environmental management.
CV | Publications | sheilah.meikle@dpu-associates.net
Diana Mitlin
specialises in urban poverty and inequality including urban poverty reduction programmes; the contribution of civil society particularly NGOs, social movements and other forms of collective action to urban poverty reduction and urban development; shelter finance and shelter finance programmes.
Résumé | CV | Publications | diana.mitlin@dpu-associates.net
Caroline Moser
is an urban social anthropologist specialising in social policy, urban poverty vulnerability, violence and youth exclusion; also, community participation, gender and development, the social dimensions of economic reform and informal settlements. Her current research includes asset accumulation and the gendered impact of international migration on urban labour markets.
Résumé | CV | Publications | caroline.moser@dpu-associates.net
Babar Mumtaz
is a development economist/planner specialising in housing finance and urban management; housing policy formulation; housing project design; community-based and participatory development and local area planning; social, financial, economic and technical evaluation of projects and programmes; training and manpower needs assessment; development of training programmes.
Résumé | CV | Publications | mumtaz@dpu-associates.net
Ronaldo Ramirez
specialises in teaching, research and consultancy: urban sociology, development studies, urban poverty, housing theory, social housing in developing countries (policies, programmes, projects, implementation), community participation in housing programmes.
CV | Publications | r.ramirez@dpu-associates.net
Michael Safier
specialises in urban regeneration; intercultural co-existence and cosmopolitan development; urban conservation and heritage management; cultural industries and urban tourism; conflict mediation and reconciliation; post-conflict reconstruction and development; institutional capacity-building and training.
CV | m.safier@dpu-associates.net
Keith Sargent
specialising in the areas of economic development planning; institutional modernisation and capacity building in the public sector; good governance; donor coordination and aid harmonisation; project and programme appraisal and evaluation; post conflict reconstruction.
Résumé | CV | keith.sargent@dpu-associates.net
Katja Schäfer
specialises in housing, urban development governance, planning and management; urban conservation; urban upgrading and reconstruction with emphasis on community-based participatory processes; institutional development and organisational capacity building in post-conflict situations and the context of emergency support, disaster mitigation and rehabilitation.
Résumé | CV | katja.schafer@dpu-associates.net
Michael Slingsby
specialises in urban poverty reduction; urban planning and management; project management; community managed environmental improvements; human resource development; institutional development; governance; and, land economics.
CV | m.slingsby@dpu-associates.net
Anna Soave
specialises in the development of appropriate urban design solutions in response to local needs based upon rapid urban appraisal, problem identification, stakeholder consultations and participatory approaches.
Résumé | anna.soave@dpu-associates.net
Nadia Taher
specialises in gender in policy and planning; addressing poverty and inequalities in development; diversity and development; politics of development; Islamism and development; Institutional change; housing; research methodology; baselines and evaluations.
CV | n.taher@dpu-associates.net
Peter Townroe
specialises in issues related to the economic aspects of urban and regional growth and change, including industrial location policies, small business development, technology transfer and the economic appraisal of urban investment options.
Résumé | CV | Publications | p.townroe@dpu-associates.net
John Turner
is not specialising but he is reviewing and reflecting on past experience, mainly in the Americas between the late 1950s and early 1970s and, more recently in Hackney (central London) and Hastings (SE England). He is anxious to exchange views on paradigm shifts since the late 1940s and their implications today.
Résumé | Publications | john.turner@dpu-associates.net 
Patrick Wakely
specialises in urban governance and management; the formulation and management of low income housing policies and programmes with emphasis on community-based participatory processes; institutional and organisational capacity building and professional training for urban development and management.
Résumé | CV | Publications | p.wakely@dpu-associates.net
Louis Wassenhoven
specialises in teaching, research and consultancy: Urban and regional planning, spatial sustainable development, territorial governance, urban redevelopment and regeneration, planning theory.
Résumé | CV | Publications | l.wassenhoven@dpu-associates.net