David is the Founder and Director of Learning Cities International Pty Ltd. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Group Governance (including audit and risk, compliance, subsidiary entities, and governance restructure), Dean of Environmental Design and Construction and now Emeritus Professor at RMIT, where his responsibilities variously included all of RMIT’s higher education programs; international programs; corporate governance; research and development; campus planning, property services, and major projects. He was founding project director and start-up CEO of RMIT University Vietnam, now the world’s largest international branch campus. Prior to that, he was Director, National Urban and Regional Strategy in the Australian government and Head, Central Policy Division and Head, Planning Division (South) in the NSW government. He has degrees in economics and planning from the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, and California at Berkeley. David has led projects in over 30 countries.

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David knows the US, Australia, and many other nations’ urban planning systems. he sees the transformation of cities through better planning as the best course to attain better standards of living through less privatisation and more government-led equity-oriented solutions for urban governance.