Professor Chris Pettit

Speaker

Chris Pettit is Scientia Professor and Director of the City Futures Research Centre UNSW – an internationally renowned institute which has been conducting scholarly applied public interest research on our cities since 2005. Prof Pettit is the Chair of the Board of Directors for CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) the premier international academic forum (30 years old) at the intersection of digital technologies, data science, urban planning and city shaping. 

He is co-founder of two start up companies, Value Australia and MapAI and global advisor to PGIM’s RealAssetX Lab. 

Chris is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia’s National Plantech Advisory Committee, the Federal Government of Australia’s Urban Policy Network and the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) Scientific Committee.