Professor Samer Bagaeen

Samer is a Technical Director in Town Planning & Stakeholder Capability at Arcadis. He previously worked as an Associate Director with the Rockefeller Foundation resilience cities programme supporting a number of UK and EMEA cities on their resilience journey. Samer is also Professor of Planning & Resilient Systems at the University of Kent where he is Programme Director for the MA in Urban Planning & Resilience. He also holds the role of Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.

Samer is a member of the Academic Advisory Group for the Real Estate Data Foundation, a Member of the RICS South East Board and of the RICS Land and Resources Technical Expert Working Group. He has also served as a Design Council Expert since 2021. He is a Trustee of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Member of the Policy Council at the Town and Country Planning Association.