Dr. Ulrich Graute FACSS
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
Co-General Rapporteur for the 61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress, 1-4 December 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Chair of ISOCARP's 2022-2025 Scientific Committee
Regional Studies Association, Member of the Board 2010-2015
Member of ISOCARP, VDBIO, IASEAI
Ulrich is a seasoned policy analyst, program manager, team leader, and mentor with 35 years of experience driving success for public and private institutions at local, national, and international levels. Based on his international experience he supports with professionalism, integrity and empathy Cities, Governments, and Non-governmental Organisations around the world in their cooperation, policy analysis, strategy and transition management in times of multiple challenges and opportunities. He is lecturer and mentor. In view of the change increasingly perceived as the age of artificial intelligence, he is especially interested in challenges at the interface between AI, cities and humans.

News
Ulrich's new AI-related paper will be published as a chapter in the book City Economies in the Global South: Growth, Inclusion, and Sustainability (edited by Tathagata Chatterji and Marco Kamiya). It is being published by Routledge and already it has been allotted ISBN. Please find here the details: Hardback ISBN: 978-1-041-04072-9, E-book ISBN: 978-1-003-63033-3.
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