Guido Hager
Landscape Architect BSLA, Hager Landschaftsarchitektur AG, Zurich
The Managing Director of Hager Landschaftsarchitektur AG and Hager International AG has devoted himself to the theme of gardens for over 25 years and has sympathetically regenerated some key historical parks in Zurich and in other towns, taking into consideration their horticultural heritage.

Mohamed Elshahed
New York University, Cairo
As a doctoral candidate in the Middle East Studies Department at New York University Mohamed Elshahed currently lives in Cairo, where he is conducting research for his thesis on architecture and urban planning in Egypt from 1939 to 1965, with an emphasis on the Nasser years. In his thesis he examines architectural transformation from anticolonial nationalism to postcolonial developmentalism in Egypt. Mohamed Elshahed has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master in Architecture Studies from MIT.

Prof. Dr. Marcel Meili
Meili Peter Architekten, Zurich
Meili Peter Architekten, one of the leading Swiss architecture firms, has established its reputation particularly with urban development and ambitious constructions. Prof. Meili lectures at the ETH – Zurich Science and Technology University and is deeply committed to the urbanistic debate.

Prof. Dr. Michael Koch and Dipl. Arch. Maresa Schumacher
yellow z, urbanism architecture, Zurich and Berlin
Yellow z predominantly works in the fields of urban development concepts, planning strategies, district and design planning and conceptual planning for public buildings and land.

Prof. Dr. Kongjian Yu
Turenscape, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Beijing
Prof. Yu is the founder of the Turenscape landscape architecture firm and the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Beijing University. Through his lecturing and the projects he has been involved with, he has rapidly become one of the leading contemporary landscape architects in China and enjoys significant international renown.

Dr. phil. Raimund Rodewald
Managing Director, Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection, Berne
In his capacity as a lecturer, Dr. Rodewald addresses the issues of landscape aesthetics and sustainable landscape development. He has developed the Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection to become a recognised institution, which again and again draws public awareness to the enforcement of contingencies in urban planning, the weaknesses of legal protection of our landscapes and the necessity for the right of appeal of associations.

Andreas Spiegel
Environmental Scientist ETH – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Senior Climate Change Advisor, Swiss Re, a leading global reinsurer, Zurich
Alongside his role as coordinator of Swiss Re’s Group-wide activities towards climate change, Andreas Spiegel is also a member of the Swiss Climate Delegation at the United National Climate talks and represents Swiss Re to a number of organisations, such as the UNEP FI Climate Change Working Group, Climate Group, Climate Wise and the Geneva Association, an insurance industry think tank.

Prof. Joan Iverson Nassauer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Natural Resources and Environment has received many awards for her research work investigating public acceptance and the cultural sustainability of environmentally beneficial landscape change. In her current projects she is researching the ecological effects of the rehabilitation of contaminated sites and industrial wasteland, among other things.