Andrew Simmons

Biography

Andrew is an urban development specialist working at the intersection of the public and private sectors, providing interdisciplinary advisory and strategic planning that spans urban infrastructure and investment, climate policy analysis and integration, knowledge capture and impact evaluation, place-based approaches to development and regional planning, and civic technology and citizen engagement in design and implementation.

As director of research for Resilience Brokers, Andrew works with a wide range of university research centres, civil society organisations, multilateral institutions, and global research networks to advance climate and social science research that is co-produced and accessible, to evaluate programme design and impact, and to facilitate feedback loops and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange and learning. Resilience Brokers, the global delivery programme of the Ecological Sequestration Trust, is a collaborative, knowledge-support and delivery network of partners combined with the “resilience.io” integrated-systems modeling platform to support the implementation of more resilient development pathways for city-regions around the world.

Prior to joining the Trust, Andrew worked as a project manager contractor on international development and domestic U.S. projects. Past appointments include senior planner with Bluepath Consulting in China and lead heritage planner with PPJ consortium on the Greater Hanoi Master Plan for the Vietnam Ministry of Construction. With Arup, he formed and led a “cultural planning” team of social scientists from the Shanghai office, within Arup’s London-based integrated city planning practice for their pioneering sustainability-driven planning projects in China and beyond. Andrew holds an MSc in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics, where his research focused on the London Olympic Park Legacy.