Prof. Dr. Rob Roggema is Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, and director/founder of Cittaideale, office for adaptive design and planning. He is a visiting professor at Queens University Belfast and lead-author of the Architecture, Urban Design and Planning chapter of the third assessment report of the UCCRN (Urban Climate Change Research Network). 

He is a Landscape Architect and an internationally renowned design-expert on sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, nature-driven design, and urban agriculture. He held several professorship positions in the Netherlands and Australia and has written multiple books on nature- and landscape driven planning and design of landscapes and cities and is series editor of ‘Contemporary Urban Design Thinking’ (Springer). 

Rob was the leader of the climate adaptive design 2021 team for the Groningen region (‘Moeder Zernike’), initiated the Food-Energy-Water-nexus project ‘the Moveable Nexus’ (SUGI/JPI-Europe), lead the design team of ‘Nature-Rich Netherlands’ and Greening NEOM. For his PhD, he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning urban landscapes for future adaptation to climate change impacts. He designed and led more than 30 design charrettes around the world, involving communities, academics, governments, and industries in design processes for more resilient communities.