Rogier van den Berg is Global Director for WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Van den Berg joined WRI Ross Center as Director for Urban Development in 2020. He is an urban planning and urban development specialist, architect, former entrepreneur and academic. He has established and implemented development projects and programs together with cities and partners in Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia.
Earlier, he was a founding partner of the architecture and planning firm Zandbelt&vandenBerg, and he also served as head of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture’s Master of Urbanism program.
Van den Berg holds an Executive Master’s Degree in International Negotiation and Policymaking from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Master of Science in Architecture from Delft University of Technology.