Ricky Burdett

He was a commissioner on the UK Government's Airports Commission.,[2] a member of the US Housing and Urban Development Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition and the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative.

He leads LSE Cities, a global centre of research and teaching at the London School of Economics which was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize 2016-2018 for its work on training urban leaders and shaping cities of the future.

Burdett acts as a consultant to national and city governments, private developers and philanthropic agencies around the world.

He was director of the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale and curator of the Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern in London, and was chairman of the Jury for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016–2018.

Burdett was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to urban planning and design in the 2017 New Year Honours[6] and awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art in 2019.