On Ulrich's Bio 

Ulrich is an internationally esteemed Senior Advisor, Team Leader and Blogger

with a keen interest in sustainable development through national and international policies on integrated urban and regional development and capacity building. He is a social scientist by profession, program manager by experience and inspiring team leader with 30+ years of experience. Currently, one of his main assignments includes the function as Senior Institutions and Governance Expert on UN-Habitat's Quality of Life Initiative.

Ulrich successfully manages urban and regional development programs including multi-country and multi-annual programs with 1000+ partners and a budget of 250+ million €. His work is demand driven, tailor made and often covers all phases of the program and project lifecycle from visioning, diagnosis, goal setting and policy formulation to implementation, reporting, monitoring and review. 

In recent years Ulrich works as developer and reviewer of national and subnational policies and planning systems with a focus on their suitability to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Agreement, New Urban Agenda, Leipzig Charter, European Urban Agenda and other internationally development agendas relevant for an enabling environment as needed for successful local and regional planning and goal achievement.

With 30+ years of experience Ulrich is more and more in demand as capacity developer, mentor and leadership advisor. For UN-Habitat Ulrich acted as the main author of the handbook on the ‘International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning’ as well as learning materials and was a trainer at a first five days transformative workshop for integrated and participatory planning. He is well familiar with peer-to-peer learning, leadership advisory, advocacy and author of the blog 'World and City' (ugraute.de/blog-1).