About me
Adriana Allen
Adriana Allen is Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London, where she leads the research cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanization and Resilience (EJUR). She is also the Bartlett’s Vice-Dean International and is actively engaged in various initiatives promoting trans-local learning and enhanced advocacy and actionresearch capacity, both within UCL and internationally
Originally trained as an urban planner in Argentina, she specialized over the years in the fields of housing, public health, urban environmental governance and political ecology. Adriana has over 30 years of international experience in research, postgraduate teaching, advisory and training services undertakings in over 25 countries across the Global South.
HIC President Blog
HIC’s President Adriana Allen – End of year message
Dear members of the HIC community, As 2023 comes to an end and so does my time as our Coalition’s President, I thought much about all the things I would [...]
Call to vote for HIC President 2024-2028
Message available in Arabic here الرسالة متاحة باللغة العربية هنا The Electoral Committee is pleased to invite all the HIC Members with right to vote to elect the HIC President [...]
Time to walk the talk: HIC’s engagement with the SDG Summit
By Adriana Allen, HIC President, 6 October 2023 On 19-20 September 2023, the United Nations held the SDG Summit in New York which “marked the beginning of a new phase [...]
Land is a human right! It’s time for the United Nations to recognize it as such
Click here to visit the website dedicated to the campaign : Land is a human right HIC President Message - World Habitat Day 2023 Every year, October is a month [...]
Just Sanitation for African Cities Campaign and regional meeting, Nairobi
This initiative was part of the legacy-building from an action-research project I have led with my Development Planning Unit (DPU) hat since 2020. The project is called OVERDUE: Tackling the [...]