Simin Davoudi FAcSS is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at Newcastle University.
She is Past President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and, as coordinator of the Planning Research Network, advised the Department of Communities and Local Government on its research priorities until 2007.
Simin has a degree in architecture (B.Arch, 1982) from Iran National University, Tehran.
In 1988, she completed MPhil in Town and Country Planning at Newcastle University where she also worked as a Research Associate until 1996 while working as a part-time Planning Officer with Northumberland County Council.
In 2000, she became Professor of Planning and Environment, and Director of Centre for Urban Development and Environmental Management, at Leeds Metropolitan University.