International Careers in the Built Environment

Join us for a panel on International Careers in the Built Environment

Moderated by Dr. Dawn Jourdan, MAPP+D Dean

A light dinner will be served at 6:30 pm. The program starts at 7:00 pm.

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Panelists:

Monica Bansal

Monica Bansal is the Division Lead for USAID’s newly created Green Cities Division, where she oversees a portfolio covering ocean plastic pollution reduction through comprehensive municipal solid waste management, air pollution, and climate change. She is a former USAID Foreign Service Environment Officer, first serving as Climate Change Office Director in USAID/Dominican Republic, where she helped create one of the Agency’s few urban country strategies and designed a comprehensive urban resilience program. She then served as a Director of the Agency’s Energy Division, where she specialized in integrated energy planning, energy efficiency, and scaling up renewable energy. She has supported and led energy, urban, and environment program development across the globe, including in Afghanistan, Mexico, Georgia, South Africa, Nigeria, Ukraine, India, Mozambique, Ghana, Haiti, among others.

Dr. Kevin J. Krizek

Dr. Kevin J. Krizek is a Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and Senior Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment. He analyzes the dynamic characteristics of urban areas—how access to services are provided, transport needs and government responses.

Kevin Nelson

Kevin Nelson is the Urban Governance Lead for the Governance Team within the Bureau of Development, Democracy and Innovation at USAID. He chairs the Urban Expert Working Group, composed of Agency technical experts who focus on urban work. USAID promotes a cross-sectoral systems approach to development connecting urban programming on gender, infrastructure, economic development, resilience, water and sanitation, among other issues. He also coordinates donor engagement and leads efforts to support the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Currently, Mr. Nelson is coordinating USAID’s strategic thinking about the role cities and urban areas have in driving national economies, promoting democracy and governance and addressing climate change, anti-corruption, violence prevention and supporting local solutions to municipal service delivery.

Matthew Roth

Matthew Roth is the acting director of the Office of Andean Affairs at the Department of State. A career foreign service officer, he has served at American embassies across Latin America and Africa. He has also worked in the Office of Mexican Affairs in Washington and taught at Army University in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds an MPA from the University of Kansas, with a focus on urban planning and municipal administration.