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Profile of Jeffrey Raven

Jeffrey Raven

Associate Professor; Architecture, School of Architecture & Design

Industry Credentials: FAIA, LEED BD+C

Education Credentials: Ph.D., M.St. (Cantab), B.Arch., B.F.A., B.A.

Expertise: Urban Design, Architecture, Climate, Sustainability

Joined New York Tech: 2012

Jeffrey Raven is a specialist in sustainable and resilient urban design whose research is applied in professional practice and disseminated throughout the profession, government, and allied disciplines.  As Director of the NYIT Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Design from 2012 to 2020, he shaped the program to engage the interdisciplinary and global urban design profession that is practiced in the 21st century. He has created and led Urban Design Climate Workshops in collaboration with the consortium Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) through research grants from the National Science Foundation (USA).

His professional practice focuses on US-international urban design projects and knowledge transfer. Projects in Southeast Asia, India, UAE, Qatar, Brazil, Europe, and the United States include low-carbon communities, climate resilience, green buildings, and smart growth.  Jeffrey contributes to the development of US and international sustainable-resilient guidelines-metrics, including STAR Communities, the Global EcoDistrict Protocol, McKinsey’s Green Districts and Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel.  His work expands on the traditional influence and capabilities of architect-urbanists by bridging climate science, policy, and design practice. 

His lectures and workshops include MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University (England), The World Bank (Washington), the Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Le Monde CITIES (Paris), École Polytechnique (Paris), Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris), Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris), Columbia University, Cornell University, Tongji University (Shanghai), Beijing University of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Peking University, Xiamen University (China), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mumbai First (India), Asian Development Bank (Manila), Climate Change Summit (Morocco), Urban Design Climate Workshop for Durban (South Africa), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations (UNEP, Habitat, UNDP), the Regional Assembly (NYC), the Center for Architecture (NYC) and The New York Times Knowledge Network. 

Publications include coordinating lead author of Planning, Urban Design and Architecture for Climate Action (Cambridge University Press 2025 & 2018); From Climate Science to Practice, Urban Design & Climate Change, (Urban Design Journal-London 2019), Climate Resilient Urban Design, Resilient Cities (Springer 2011); and Shaping Resilient Cities in China, India and the United States (P. Lang 2014), Urban Design Climate Workshop: Gowanus(Urban Land Institute 2020), Ville chaude – quartiers cool : À la recherche des îlots de fraîcheur (Urbanisme-Paris 2020), Les villes doivent s’inspirer de la climatologie urbaine, Le Monde-Paris 2020. Externally Funded research: Three National Science Foundation projects on sustainable urban systems and climate-resilient urban design.  [https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4340-8800]

The American Institute of Architects elevated him to the College of Fellows (FAIA) in 2015, and he has been appointed by the mayor to the NYC Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) in 2024, an independent advisory board that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises New York City government. Co-Chair of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Planning & Urban Design Committee (2016-22), served on Board of Directors for AIA New York State, Partnership Chair Group in Architectural Pedagogy and Research for the French Ministry of Culture.  In Paris, he has served on doctoral thesis jurors at Université Gustave Eiffel and Université Paris 8, as juror for the Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) and as C40 Cities juror in Houston for C40 Reinventing Cities competition.  He was educated at Université Paris-Est Sup (France), Cambridge University (England), the Rhode Island School of Design, and Trinity College (USA).

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NYC Panel on Climate Change (NPCC)

  • Appointed by the mayor to the fifth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), an independent advisory board that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises New York City policymakers on local resiliency and adaptation strategies to protect against rising temperatures, increased flooding, and other hazards, 2024-2027.

National Science Foundation Grants

  • INFEWS/T3 RCN: City-as-Lab Supplemental Grant – Climate-Resilient Urban Design.  Prof. Raven leads the 4-year project as subject matter expert; and as author of the proposal, led the effort to secure this Grant Supplement.  The focus of this Supplement is climate-resilient urban design research and urban design climate workshops, engaging with NYIT graduate urban design students. (2021-2025).
  • City-as-Lab INFEWS/T3 RCN: Co-PI for six years.  A Research Coordination Network for the Study of the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development.  Lead researcher to working group on visioning, engaging stakeholder, engaging NYIT graduate students on field testing and validating the proposed model and framework. National Science Foundation (2019-2025).
  • The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI-Belmont-InSource): Co-PI for 3 Years.  Prof. Raven leads the InSource (a European-American urban research consortium) Case Study in NYC in collaboration with local experts from the Urban Land Institute, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and NYIT graduate students; in coordination with key community stakeholder groups on Net-Zero Carbon and resilient district in NYC.  The InSource consortium is developing a 3-D data modeling tool to enhance sustainability of the food/energy/water (FEW) nexus in urban environments. National Science Foundation (2018-2021). 
  • National Workshop on Architectural Faculty in Environmental Sustainability Research (WAFES): Co-PI, WAFES investigator/session leader.  Focus on architectural researchers pursuing environmental sustainability research related to the built environment; building architecture faculty capacity to successfully pursue research.  As session leader/investigator, Prof. Raven brought NYIT urban design faculty into the network. National Science Foundation (2019–2020).

  • Ph.D., Urbanism-Urban Systems/Urban Design, Université Paris-Est Sup, France; Doctoral program in Cities, Transport and Territories (Génie Urbain), accredited in architecture and urbanism, 2023.
  • M.St., Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE), Cambridge University, England, 2010
  • B.Arch., Architecture (Professional Degree), Rhode Island School of Design, 1987
  • B.F.A. (Fine Arts), Rhode Island School of Design, 1986      
  • B.A. (History), Trinity College, Hartford, CT., 1984

  • Publication launch of Planning, Architecture & Urban Design for Climate Action – UCCRN Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.3) Cambridge University Press, l’Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France, 2025.
  • COP30: Publication launch of Planning, Architecture & Urban Design for Climate Action – UCCRN Third Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.3), Cambridge University Press at Pavilhão Cidades Resilientes (by video), Belem, Brazil, 2025.
  • Sustainable Neighborhoodspanelist, hosted by the French Chair of Sustainable Transition and United Nations Environment Programme at the Collège de France, Paris, France, 2025.
  • Urban Design Climate Workshops: Methodologies and tools for integrating urban climate factors in planning and design practice, ICUC12 Conference, sponsored by the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2025.
  • Built Environment in Changing Climate: Urban Design and Planning for Resilient Cities, Columbia University conference MR2025 Mobility, Adaptation & Wellbeing in a Changing Climate, facilitator/presenter, 2025.
  • Doha, Qatar – Workshop Convergence of Climate and Culture for Well-being, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, 2024. As Director of the Doha City Plan– Physical Development Plan for the Berger Group-HOK Team (mid-1990’s) — we developed innovative growth strategies based upon convergence of sustainable development, climate and culture, from urban design guidelines to transportation to land use plans.  These themes shaped my contributions to the 2024 NSF Workshops, Qatar, 2024.
  • High-Level Expert Meeting (HLM) on climate change in cities, Rio de Janeiro, a Rio G20 side event at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Sponsored by the Columbia University Global Center, Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) to engage in the global discourse on climate change and cities, Brazil, 2024.
  • Académie d’Architecture, Climate Change and Urban Design: From Research to Action, lecture, Paris, 2024.
  • El Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de las Islas Balears (Official College of Architects-COAIB) and Fòrum de la Societat Civil (Forum for Civil Society) in Mallorca, Sustainable Urban Design, lecture, Spain, 2024.
  • Innovate4Cities – Montreal, Climate by Design: Empowering Cities to Take Local Climate Action Through Urban Design Climate Workshops, panelist, 2024.
  • Cities and Climate Change: Global Insights and Urban Solutions Emerging from the Assessment Process, New York Climate Exchange, Climate Week 2024, Panelist, Governors Island, NYC.
  • École Polytechnique, From Climate Research to Climate Action, Lecture, Jury Member and Internship Supervisor, Paris, 2023.
  • Chair Group in Architectural Pedagogy and Research for the French Ministry of Culture, member of the scientific committee, developing innovative cross-sectoral approaches to the built environment to confront the challenges of climate change. “Habitabilité sur terre : Que peut l’architecture ? – Conversation vulnérabilités” https://vimeo.com/678770082, 2022.
  • Le Marché International des Professionnels de L’immobilier (MIPIM) – Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Changement Climatique et Aménagement Urbain: De la Recherche à l ’Application, France, 2023.
  • EduBIM 2022, chaired Research Day on digital transformation of A/E/P/C to confront the impacts of climate change, Gustave Eiffel University https://lnkd.in/ecRqz26T, Paris, 2022.
  • Urban Design Climate Workshop: Ten Years of Experiences & Methodologies, Climate-Resilient Urban Design (CRUD) project, UCCRN_edu/ERASMUS+ program of the European Union & National Science Foundation RCN grant, Paris, 2022.
  • Bringing Science into Action: An Educational Alliance for Climate Resilient Design, Planning and Governance of Cities. Sorbonne Université, panelist. UCCRN_edu/ERASMUS+ program of the European Union & National Science Foundation RCN grant, Paris, 2022.
  • Scaling Up Research Networks and Educational Alliances for Urban Systems and Climate, panelist, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Architettura (DiARC), UCCRN_edu/ERASMUS+ program of the European Union & National Science Foundation RCN grant, Naples, Italy, 2022.
  • Écoles d’art américaines de Fontainebleau, lecture, France, 2022.
  • Bringing Science into Action: An Educational Alliance for Climate Resilient Design, Planning and Governance of Cities. US-European research consortium workshop at the NYIT: National Science Foundation RCN grant & UCCRN_edu/ERASMUS+ program of the European Union, New York, 2022.
  • Researchers Panel on Community Engagement, National Science Foundation RCN, NYC panelist, 2022.
  • Net Zero Neighborhoods – Gowanus, Brooklyn Project, Project Lead.  INSOURCE Belmont Forum: Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative (SUGI), National Science Foundation Grant No. 1830718. Collaboration with the American Institute of Architects, as co-Chair of Planning & Urban Design Committee. LinkedIn, 2019-2022.
  • Climate Resilient Urban Design: Graduate lecture series, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris,France, 2021.
  • Evaluating Urban Issues of Climate Change, Barnard College – Columbia University, New York, 2021.
  • City of the Future: Zero carbon buildings and quarters – Case studies from Montreal, Hamburg and New York, MTL Connecte, Panelist, sponsored by Consulate of Germany, Montreal, Canada, 2021.
  • Reinventing World Cities – Post-Covid Cities; Global cities emerging from the pandemic while implementing social goals and 21st-century zero-carbon policies, Center for Architecture, NYC, 2021.
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Transportation Research Board.  Panelist for Metropolitan Planning Organization forum on resiliency in transportation, 2021.
  • City-as-Lab Research Coordination Network seminar moderator for the National Science Foundation-funded initiative aiming to explore the nexus of urban food, energy, and water systems, 2021.
  • MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lecture and panel, Urban Planning & Urban Design – Climate Change and Cities, MIT DUSP: MIT School of Architecture + Planning, 2020.
  • Urban Manifesto interview, co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant (London), place strategist, author & founder of Urbanista.org and Prathima Manohar (Mumbai), founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision, 2020.
  • Urbanism of the Southern China Metropolis: NYIT – Tsinghua University Symposium, panelist, 2020.
  • Leveraging Our Strengths: An Open Call for Science, Advocacy, and Design, Climate Justice Panel by the American Institute of Architects, panel moderator, 2020.
  • Dialogue:  Heat in the City, Global Heat Health Information Network, lecture and panel moderated by Laurie Goering (Thomson Reuters). Panelists included C40 Manager of Cool Cities; Dep. Director NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency, leading Hong Kong developer, 2020.
  • Featured in AIA Blueprint for Better, a national campaign by the American Institute of Architects to bring to life the role of architects as leaders in the fight against climate change, 2020. 
  • Workshop on Governing Climate Resilience Cities, hosted by University of Pisa, Italy.  Directed the Planning and Buildingworkshop comprising NYIT MSAURD graduate students, experts from NASA Goddard Institute (Columbia University), researchers/students from universities of Pisa, Naples and Dublin, 2020.
  • MTL Connect – City of the Future, Montreal, Canada; keynote presentation, 2020.
  • Archtober: Challenges in Future Cities, hosted by the Consul General of Sweden in NY and Exec. Director of the van Alen Institute.  Panel from Rwanda, Kenya, UK, Canada, Sweden and the US, 2020.
  • Cool District Hot City, University of Miami School of Architecture, graduate lecture, 2020.
  • Tongji University, Shanghai: Designing for Net-Zero (2019); Lecture to graduate faculty and students, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, China.
  • Shenzhen University School of Architecture: Sustainable and Resilient Urban Design; Lecture to undergraduate and graduate faculty and students, China, 2019.
  • First International Urban Forum on City of Challenges: Eco-Technological Innovation.  Lecturer and panelist on bridging climate science, policy and design practice, Laayoune, Western Sahara, Morocco, 2019.
  • Le Monde CITIES, lecture and Member of the Awards Selection Committee. NYIT urban design studio project for Gowanus, Brooklyn was presented through the lens of integrating climate adaptation and climate mitigation. J.Raven presented the Innovative Cities Urbanism award toParques del Rio, an organization working to transform the waterfront of Medellin, Colombia; Paris, 2019.
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lecture and design charrette on sustainable and resilient cities titled, “Integrating Climate Science and Urban Design”, with participation by Hong Kong University and The Secretary for the Environment of Hong Kong, 2019.
  • Global Practices and Policy: Urban Risk, Resilience, and Crises; Lecture, Columbia University GSAPP, 2019. 
  • Jiangsu Provincial Department of Natural Resources, Lecture and Workshop:  Sustainable & Resilient Urban Design; expert delegation sponsored by the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, New York, 2019.
  • 2019 Summit for New York City, Municipal Art Society of New York, Cool District Hot City, lecture.
  • Archtober: Responsive Cities, Panelist with experts from ETH Zurich, sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland, Parsons-New School, 2018.
  • AIA2018 – Project New York: Collaborative Mapping Platform, Panelist with Sr. Policy Advisor – NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resilience and Exec. Director, NYC Public Design Commission, 2018.
  • Shaping Climate Resilient Cities through Innovative, Multi-Scale and Adaptive-Mitigation Design Methods; Speaker, IAUC International Climate Conference, CUNY, 2018.
  • Urban Infrastructures: Food, Energy and Water for Sustainable and Resilient Cities – National Science Foundation; Speaker and steering committee member.  Developed a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to be managed by a team of investigators from three New York City institutions (NYIT, CUNY, NYU), in collaboration with NYC agencies and partnership with leading researchers from academic institutions across North America and Europe, 2018.
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), The CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, Speaker and Convener, Urban Climate Information to Support Decision Making: From Local to Global, Edmonton, Canada, 2018.
  • International Climate Summit, Agadir, Morocco.  Lecturer and Workshop leader.  Joined by a panel of European and American experts. NYIT graduate student presented innovative research completed by graduate team, 2017.
  • Urban Transition in Face of Climate Change, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.  Co-led international workshop: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation in Urban Planning, Urban Design and Architecture.  Joined by leadership from the French national and Paris city government to evaluate innovative strategies for a carbon-neutral Paris.  Sponsored by UCCRN, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, 2017.
  • Climate-Resilient Urban Design: Bridging Science and Practice.  Solo lecture, followed by workshop led by me on the intersection of urban form, climate and implementation strategies, Cambridge University, England, 2017.
  • Climate Change in NYC, Center for Architecture. Co-moderator/panelist and lecturer. Joined by Susanne Desroches, Dep. Director – NYC Office for Recovery & Resiliency; Cynthia Rosenzwieg – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Jee Mee Kim – HR&A; and Signe Nielsen – Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, New York City, 2017.
  • Climate Change and Cities, presentation at the Regional Plan Association, New York, 2017.
  • Design Solutions for Climate Change in Urban Areas; funded panelist and presenter, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, 2016.
  • Toward Developing a Blueprint for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), invited and sponsored by the US National Science Foundation as speaker and panelist, Shenzhen, China, 2016.
  • Convening Design and Semiotics to Build Visual Identity for Museums and Urban Districts, panelist at the AIA New York State annual convention, Saratoga, 2016.
  • The South Bronx: Seeds for Urban Transformation – How Policy, Planning & Design Shape New York Neighborhoods;Annual Conference ASLA-APA-AIA; Raven organized and moderated a panel for the interdisciplinary conference of the American Society of Landscape Architects, American Planning Association, and the American Institute of Architects, 2016.
  • A Critical Climate Change Debrief: COP21, Paris at the NYC Center for Architecture; speaker and panelist with Tom Vonier (AIA national president), Andrew Revkin (NY Times), Tom Dallassio (Next City), 2016.
  • Heat Waves: Preparing for and Managing the Effects of Extreme Heat on Cities; NYC Center for Architecture, 2016.
  • The Road from Paris, Pratt Institute Program for Sustainable Planning and Development Lecture Series directed by Ronald Shiffman FAICP; Lecture and panel on the outcomes of the Paris 2015 Climate Conference and the implications for grassroots organizations and frontline communities; Pratt Manhattan Campus, 2016.
  • Sustainable Megacities: US-China EcoPartnership Forum, Beijing; Panel Chair/lecturer.  Led by New York Institute of Technology and Peking University; co-funded by the US National Science Foundation, 2015. 
  • Urban Transitions in the Face of Climate Change:  Raven lectured and was a panelist at a COP21-labelled event in Paris, France on Urban Transitions in the Face of Climate Change,at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the center for urban planning and architecture of Paris.  It marked the launch of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) Hub in Europe.  Fellow presenters included UCCRN/NASA-Goddard, the Mayor’s Office for the City of Paris, the Atelier International du Grand Paris and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 2015.
  • The Assessment Report for Climate Change in Cities, International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC9) at a COP21-labelled event in Toulouse, France.  Jeffrey Raven presented his work as Coordinating Lead Author on Urban Planning and Design for the Assessment Report for Climate Change in Cities, 2015.
  • Cooling the Public Realm: Climate-Resilient Urban Design.  Jeffrey was the sole presenter at this plenary event at the NYC Center for Architecture, with focus on current practice and applied research in climate-resilient urban design.  This emerging practice integrates climate science, natural systems, and compact urban form to configure dynamic, desirable, and healthy communities, 2015. 
  • Columbia University Sustainability Media Lab:  Resilient New York- Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change; Lecturer and panelist, 2015. 
  • EcoDistricts Global Protocol: Raven is an Advisory Committee member developing a global Protocol for EcoDistricts, to define performance requirements for delivering district and neighborhood sustainability projects worldwide. Seven North American EcoDistrict Target Cities are underway, including Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington DC, 2014-15.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)- Urban Climate Institute (UCI): Raven was an invited Expert to the NSF Research Coordination Network project, to research the science of urban climate change and develop strategies tailored to the scale and unique context of cities, Atlanta, 2014.
  • The National Science Foundation- Carbon Footprint Metric in collaboration with the AIA: Raven was a focus group member to review the research and design for a Building Information Modeling (BIM)-integrated Carbon Footprint Metric (CFM) tool.  This will support environmental decision making by design professionals and their clients, 2014.
  • The Atlantic Roundtable-Rockefeller Foundation: Panelist for the Healthy Cities forum, New York, 2013.
  • International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC), international forum where the world’s urban climatologists, presented Resilient Architecture + Urban Design, 2012.
  • City Weathers Workshop, Manchester England, presented Cooling the Public Realm: Climate-Resilient Urban Design.  It was republished in City Weathers, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, 2011.
  • Benchmarking Resilience, Raven was a member of the Advisory Panel for the Resilient Design Institute (RDI).  The panel of leading practitioners, researchers and US Green Building Council developed metrics and benchmarks relating to urban resilience and acceptable urban temperature fluctuations; New York, 2013.
  • Project EAST / China-Europa Forum: Sustainable Development Facing Climate Change Presenter and Session Moderator, Paris and Brussels, December 2014.  Presented Shaping Resilient Cities in China, India and the United States; moderated Session 1:  Sustainable Urban Development and Planning.  The session was attended by leading experts and city leaders from Europe, China and India. 
  • China International Urbanization Forum: Served on a panel of international experts researching best practices applied to rapidly urbanizing cities in China, as part of the EU-sponsored Project EAST delegation. Organized by the China Center for Urban Development under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China Ministry of Commerce, UNDP, Shanghai Municipal Development & Reform Commission and presented on Sustainable and Resilient Cities.  Raven presented to this group in Shanghai, 2012.
  • Resilient-Urban Design Workshop, Shanghai SISS Institute: Led a workshop for the Shanghai Institute for Science of Science (SISS), an institution under the leadership of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai Academy of Science and Technology, 2013.
  • The Challenges of Mumbai as a Mega-City, European Union-Bombay First: Raven was the only US-based expert invited to contribute to this high-level European and Indian forum on low-energy cities.  This process ties into the Mumbai government development of a new regional plan.  Raven’s presentation and panel drew from his urban design research and project experience in the US, the Middle East and Asia. Mumbai, 2013.
  • Building Livable Cities: The Urban Vision Symposium, Mumbai, India: Lecturer and panelist, 2012.
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Europe and the CIS, Sustainable and Resilient Local Development:  Bratislava Regional Centre, Slovakia, led in-person and remote session on Resilient Cities to 60 UNDP experts, 2012.
  • United Nations Habitat, High-Level Meeting on Sustainable Urbanization in Konya, Turkey – Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization: Lecturer and panelist at the UN Headquarters in New York, 2012. 
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Technische Universität Dresden’s Centre for International Postgraduate Studies of Environment Management (CIPSEM), annual series of workshops on Sustainable-Resilient Cities, attended by international policy and technical experts, 2010-present.
  • Humboldt Foundation, Germany: Led a series of annual workshops for The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship, a competitive program for future international leaders in the field of climate protection, focused on Sustainable-Resilient Cities; 2011, 2012, 2013.\
  • Global Change Impacts and Adaptation Program, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development (EPA): Member of the Technical Steering Committee to develop an Urban Resilience Framework for American Communities based upon urban areas’ resilience to climate change. The Steering Committee shaped federal policy by ensuring realistic, useful and rigorous project outcomes from the practitioner’s perspective, 2012-2013.
  • Global Sustainable Urbanization Development Indicators; US Office Housing & Urban Development (HUD): Raven was a member of the Working Group under the direction of the HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary.  Launched by The White House Office of Urban Affairs to shape federal sustainable development, the group mapped global best practices and universal benchmarks, 2010-2011.
  • Transportation Research Board, Integrated Planning & Sustainable Transportation:  Panelist on sustainable cities, Washington DC.
  • Peer Review: NYC Department of Design and Construction -High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines, practices for creating sustainable city streets, sidewalks, utilities, and urban landscaping.
  • Department of Transportation (North Carolina DOT) and ACEC, presented at the ACEC/NC DOT Joint-Technical Training Workshop, Intermodal Transportation Perspectives and Sustainable Planning/Design for Resilient Cities.
  • Cambridge University Sustainable Cities Programs: Lecturer and external expert to The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, The Prince of Wales’ Business & Sustainability Programme, the Cambridge International Land Institute. He presented his research and professional experience to policymakers, business leaders and experts from China, Europe and the United States. Presented Sustainable Cities: Shaping Resilient Communities for the 21st Century and led a Cambridge workshop for 30 Chinese leaders from the TianJin Economic Technological Development Area, 2010-2012.
  • Cambridge Academic Examiner, MSt Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (Dept. of Architecture and Engineering), 2011.
  • The Ecological City course – Cooper Union / The New York Times,accredited certificate program (AIA/CES, PDH/LU-HSW credits) in Green Building Design, The Cooper Union’s Department of Continuing Education since 2007.  Building design course Retrofitting Green, and The Ecological City: Sustainability and Resilience (7-10 sessions).  Ecological City course was on web-based The New York Times Knowledge Network via the global New York Times platform, 2007-2015.
  • Symposium on Planning Healthy, Sustainable Communities, Rutgers University, New Jersey: Lectured on urban sustainability rating systems and was panelist for the Consortium in Northern New Jersey.  The group had been awarded the US HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant, 2012.
  • Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and Suburbs, Hofstra University. Lecturer and panelist on sustainable urban design for the event co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Earth Institute (Columbia University) and Center for the Sustainable Built Environment (New York University), 2013.
  • Climate Positive Development Program (CPDP), Clinton Climate Initiative: Technical Resource Expert to CPDP, whose mission was to create zero-carbon models for urban districts of member cities.  The experts shaped program performance standards for green energy, waste efficiency, material technologies, and integrated design.  CPDP is a program within the Sustainable Communities Initiative of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and was developed in partnership with the US Green Building Council, 2010.
  • Regional Plan Association:  Invited panelist to annual Regional Assembly: Building a Green Infrastructure; member of the charrette team for Downtown Visioning Charrette, in Bergen County, NJ., and post 9/11 Civic Alliance Planning and Design Workshop in Lower Manhattan.   

  • Appointed by the mayor to the fifth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), an independent advisory board that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises New York City policymakers on local resiliency and adaptation strategies to protect against rising temperatures, increased flooding, and other hazards.
  • Co-Chair of the American Institute of Architects Planning & Urban Design Committee – New York Chapter; nominated by AIA peers, appointed by the AIANY Board of Directors, 2016 to 2022.
  • American Institute of Architects, New York State Board of Directors, appointed 2018.
  • Delano & Aldrich / Emerson Foundation, committee member selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with the Académie d’Architecture, Paris, 2025-present.
  • External Expert Advisory Board member of the Horizon Europe project “KNOWING – Framework for defining Climate Mitigation Pathways based on Understanding and integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts, Adaptation Strategies and Societal Transformation” funded by the European Commission, 2023-present.
  • I-Site FUTURE Scientific Committee at Université Gustave Eiffel, France.
  • Steering Board Pilot4Dev (Brussels), sustainable cities NGO focused on Sustainable Development, Social Inclusion and Resilience, 2020 to present.

  • International Advisory Committee, Volt-Age: Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) to accelerate transition to decarbonized, resilient communities. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2024.
  • Doctoral Thesis Juror, The Green and Blue Nexus: Integrated framework for assessing climate change adaptation and mitigation in urban design. through Urban Digital Twin module development; Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2024.
  • École Polytechnique, Science et Défis pour l’Environnement : L’urbanisme et l’Aménagement du Territoire -Vecteur d’une Société plus Durable (EA586), Paris, 2023.
  • Delano & Aldrich / Emerson Foundation, member of jury selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with the Académie d’Architecture, Paris, 2023-present.
  • Université Paris-Est, Génie Urbain, Master 2, Risque Urbain – Résilience Urbaine (RU²), Paris, 2023.
  • École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris, Urbanisme Master 2, Paris, 2022.
  • Doctoral Thesis Juror, École des Ponts ParisTech/Université Paris-Est. The thesis is Architecture as Indicator of Risk, at the Risk of Urban Temporalities. Delivered a detailed verbal and written response and exchange with the doctoral candidate and fellow jury in French, 2021.
  • Le Monde CITIES, Member of the Awards Selection Committee, Paris, 2019-present.
  • Juror for the Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) by the research director from École des Ponts ParisTech/Université Paris-Est.  The HDR is a high-level specialization university-granted and higher education-sanctioned degree obtained post-PhD needed to access the rank of “Professeur des Universites”.  The criteria for jury selection requires internationally-recognized experts in the field of research, Paris, 2019.
  • C40 Cities jury panelist in Houston for the Reinventing Cities competition, organized by the C40 and the City of Houston, Texas, 2019.
  • Doctoral Thesis Juror, Université Paris 8, Socio-Semiotics and Research-Action Approach to the Visual Identity of Museums in Paris and New York, As Doctoral Thesis Juror, Raven delivered a detailed verbal and written response and exchange with the doctoral candidate and fellow jury in French, 2016.
  • Shaping a New Capital City to Fit Indian Life, Naya Raipur, India, International jury invited by a joint European Union program Euro-Asian Sustainable Towns Programme (EAST) and L’association Les Ateliers Internationaux de Maîtrise d’Oeuvre Urbaine (Cergy-Paris), 2012.
  • Columbia University, MS Architecture and Urban Design, 2013-2019; MArch1 juror, 2012 and 2016. 

  • National Science Foundation, served on NSF Review Panel to evaluate intellectual merit and broader impacts of research proposals, NSF/CBET Environmental Sustainability – 7643 UNSOL Sust Buildings/Cities & Water, Agriculture, Food (WAF), 2025.
  • National Science Foundation, served on NSF Review Panel to evaluate intellectual merit and broader impacts of research proposals, Panel: P252254 – UNSOL Sust Buildings/Cities & Water, Agriculture, Food (WAF), 2025.
  • Elsevier research manuscript for Urban Climate publication, 2025.
  • National Science Foundation, served on NSF Review Panel to evaluate intellectual merit and broader impacts of research proposals, Panel: P250307: 7643 FY25 CAREER: Sustainable Buildings, 2024.
  • Elsevier research manuscript for Urban Climate publication, Nov 2018.
  • Elsevier research manuscript for Urban Climate publication, April 2018.
  • Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, research manuscript for the Opportunity Project Program, British Columbia, Canada, 2018.
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Awards Reviewer, to evaluate intellectual merit and broader impacts of Urban Sustainability research, 2017.
  • National Science Foundation, served on a two-day NSF Review Panel at NSF Headquarters to evaluate intellectual merit and broader impacts of CAREER: Sustainable Buildings research proposals, Washington DC, 2016.

  • College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA).  Elevated to the national AIA College of Fellows in 2015. The FAIA is awarded to architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.  Listed as a Best Example FAIA submission in Research (Object Two).
  • Elected member of the Century Association, New York City, 2021.
  • Foreign visiting professor invited by the Université Gustave Eiffel (France), selected by jury from the directors of the doctoral schools and Doctoral Training Council, the President of the university, 2021-22.
  • Bronx Center; awarded Best Practice prototype by UN Habitat, Project Coordinator.
  • St. Louis County Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Strategy, USGBC- St. Louis Governance award, Project Director.
  • Port Redevelopment Plan, Belford (Middletown), New Jersey.  Smart Growth grant.  NJPO Achievement Planning Award, Urban Design Lead.
  • Freedom Ring, Pampanga, Philippines.  Centennial Exposition. ­NYACE Gold Prize, Project Architect.

  • Université Paris-Est, Lab’Urba, Visiting Scholar, 2020; Teaching Master 2 Urban Systems (Génie Urbain), Sustainable Urban Development: Risk and Resilience (RU²), 2020 & 2023, France.
  • Columbia University, Adj. Asst. Professor, Master of Science in Architecture + Urban Design, 2009-2011.
  • Cooper Union Continuing Education / The New York Times Knowledge Network; an accredited certificate program in Green Building Design.  The course became web-based via the global New York Times platform.
  • Research Supervisor: Tongji University, China (2015)
  • Research Supervisor: École Polytechnique, France (2017, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026)

  • ARCH 362: History and Theory of the City
  • ARCH 701: Urban Design Studio I
  • ARCH 702: Urban Design Studio II
  • ARCH 703: Urban and Regional Design Studio III
  • ARCH 721: History of the City and Region
  • ARCH 824: Cities, Ecologies, and Infrastructures
  • ARCH 844: Digital Software Module
  • ARCH 884: Independent Urban Design Studies

Faculty Work

Urban Design Climate Workshops (UDCW): Created UDCW roadmap and leads cross-disciplinary teams of urban climate, design, planning, financial, infrastructure and sustainability experts and graduate students to shape evidence-based, climate-driven intervention tools and strategies for urban districts.  Works in close coordination with the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN); with partial funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States (2013-present).

  • Rio de Janeiro Urban Design Climate Workshop and Climate-Resilient Planning Project; in collaboration with Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro-PUC-Rio, Brazil.
  • Durban Urban Design Climate Workshop.  Additional funding from German Government Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, in collaboration with the Government of Durban, South Africa.
  • Dublin Urban Design Climate Workshop and Climate-Resilient Planning Project, Ireland.
  • Barcelona Urban Design Climate Workshop and Climate-Resilient Planning, Spain.
  • Paris Urban Design Climate Workshop and Climate-Resilient Planning Project, France.
  • New York City Urban Design Climate Workshop, with the International Association for Urban Climate; Columbia University GISS-NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; HOK Urban Design Group; Sunnyside Yard, Queens. 
  • Gowanus Urban Design Climate Workshop, Urban design prototypes for a compact climate-resilient district, Urban Land Institute, Brooklyn, NY
  • Xiamen Sustainable Urban Design Workshop, Xiamen, China: Redevelopment of Xiamen Old Port District (formerly Old Amoy).

Project EAST- Euro-Asia Sustainable Towns, urban design expert to test climate-resilient urban design scenarios in China and India, led by European New Town and Pilot Cities Platform (ENTP) with the cities of Basildon (UK), Baoshan (China), Qingpu (China), Naya Raipur (India), and the Euro-India Center.

Kolkata (Calcutta) Sustainable Satellite Towns, urban design principal.  Calcutta Metropolitan Area, West Bengal, India.  Funded by Dept. International Development (DFID UK) / Government of West Bengal.

Constanza Urban Plan, Romania, co-director for a strategic planning and capacity-building project for the ancient city of Constanza, now Romania’s principal port on the Black Sea.  Sponsored by the City of Constanza, Open Society Foundations, and The Institute for Local Development and Public Services.

Bronx Center, South Bronx; project coordinator for a strategic, collaborative, community-based plan for a 300-block district; awarded Best Practice Prototype by UN Habitat, USA. 

Louis Berger Group: Director of Sustainability + Urban Design; Berger Group Holdings

  • MASDAR Carbon-Neutral City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sustainable Design Advisor to Masdar, an urban development powered by renewable energy.  Developed and led sustainability workshops. Contributed to planning and design metrics from building to city-wide scale and led sustainability consulting for a new landmark 1 million sf., mixed-use “positive energy” headquarters building that produces more energy than it consumes.
  • St. Louis County Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Strategy, Project Director; in partnership with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and HOK, providing technical support to the County of St. Louis, MO. to create their Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (EECS) required by the US Department of Energy to receive Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funding (EECBG). USGBC- St. Louis Governance award
  • Physical Development Plan for the State of Qatar (Arabian Gulf), Director – Capital City Plan.  Led Downtown Doha’s climate-aligned development for the national Physical Development Plan (PDP).  Developed innovative growth strategies based upon convergence of sustainable development, climate, and culture, from urban design guidelines to transportation to land use plans.  These themes shaped contributions to the 2024 Doha Workshop Convergence of Climate and Culture for Well-being, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation.
  • Thanh Hoa City Master Plan, Northern Vietnam, led a comprehensive master planning process for the provincial capital’s development to 500,000 people.  A pioneering comprehensive metropolitan plan for a Vietnamese city by foreign consultants, the UN Habitat and the Asia Development Bank used it to launch a national network of metropolitan plans for other large cities in Vietnam.
  • Montclair Redevelopment Plan, New Jersey.  Public/private strategies to foster long-term, sustainable economic development for district-wide “Areas in Need of Redevelopment”, and design solutions to improve the quality of the built environment and public realm. Once adopted, the plan becomes a legislative ordinance. Urban design responsibilities include directing the multi-disciplinary planning and design process, public outreach, and 3-D visualization
  • Prototyping Development in Fragile Watershed Areas, Lower Raritan River Watershed Management Redevelopment Study, New Jersey Water Supply Authority. Prepared sustainable design prototypes balancing high-priority economic development and environmentally sensitive watershed areas– and provided a model for future watershed protection and economic growth opportunities in the Raritan watershed and throughout the state of New Jersey.
  • Port Redevelopment Plan, Belford (Middletown), New Jersey.  Smart Growth grant for revitalizing one of mid-Atlantic’s few active, small-vessel fishing ports located along the coast of Sandy Hook / Raritan Bay.  A key terminal for NYC rapid regional commuter ferry service, the strategic plan includes urban design, infrastructure, architecture, and economic strategies, for sustainable viability of the fishing industry and stronger linkages to the surrounding community.  NJPO Achievement Planning Award
  • LEED-Accredited Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Building for Health Center, LEED Administratorfor all phases of design and construction, energy model coordination, materials research, management and submittals to USGBC for LEED certification.  Richmond Health Center, a complete interior and exterior adaptive re-use of a historic building to state-of-the-art laboratories, clinics and medical offices.
  • Freedom Ring, Pampanga, The Philippines.  Design/build project, the Centennial Exposition Park at the former Clark U.S. Air Force base in the Philippines commemorates the 100th anniversary of Philippine independence from Spanish rule.  The “Ring” site is 300 meters in diameter, comprising a 35,000-person amphitheater and stage house covered by a massive tent, and other support structures.  Awarded the ­NYACE Gold Prize
  • Green Airport Terminal Building, Newark Liberty International Airport, Sustainability Advisor Sustainability and LEED Advisor to Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the sustainable design of a landmark, 1.3 million sf. airport terminal building, and surrounding site
  • Intermodal Transit Hubs, Seoul, Korea.  Research and development project to develop guidelines and prototypes for Seoul’s Intermodal Transit Hubs with the goal of revitalizing urban centers and reducing automobile impacts within the Seoul metropolitan area.  Invited as speaker to present to an international conference in Seoul, sponsored by the Korea Transport Institute
  • Transit Hub Environmental Impact Statement, Lower Manhattan.  Assessment of the district’s defining urban design characteristics and visual resources, integrated into the Fulton Street Transit Station Environmental Impact Statement, for the New York City Transit Authority, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Federal Transit Administration
  • Bangkok International Airport, Thailand.  New state-of-the-art terminal and flight piers added to an existing airport complex, to strengthen the airport’s role as an economic engine and national gateway, increase capacity to meet demands for future air/passenger volume and accommodate larger aircraft

Regional Plan Association, Downtown Brooklyn Project Director, New York.  An integral part of the Centers Campaign of the Third Regional Plan for the NY Metropolitan Area, the comprehensive master plan for Downtown Brooklyn– a CBD and transportation hub with a quarter million workers and visitors– combined an analysis of Downtown’s economic and institutional assets with economic, infrastructure, transportation, urban design and planning recommendations.

Buckhurst Fish Jacquemart / Hutton & Katz, Senior Planner, New York

  • Housing Plan in the South Bronx (Morrisania Air Rights Houses).
  • Commercial District Plan in Brooklyn (Washington Avenue Commercial Area) 

Gérard Grandval, Architecte/Urbaniste, Paris for La Place de l’Europe/Pont des Batignolles, a proposal covering railroad tracks with housing, offices, parks, and parking structures, in a historic district next to the St. Lazare Railroad Station, Paris 8e.

Raven

  • Humboldt Foundation/CIPSEM-UNEP, expert for Environmental Urban Design Programme through the Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany.
  • STAR Communities, technical advisor to develop a national sustainability and resilience rating system, now adopted by twenty American cities.
  • Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, led eco-city workshops, Cambridge University, England.
  • Climate Positive Development Program,  Carbon-neutral revitalization of London’s Royal Albert Basin
  • Southampton Township, Transport corridor Redesign, Hampton Bays, New York
  • Shanghai Institute SISS, Sustainable Urban Design Workshop,Shanghai, China
  • UNDP Europe and the CIS, Sustainable Urban Design Workshop, Bratislava Regional Centre, Slovakia
  • Asian Development Bank Livable and Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Urban Design Workshop, Manila, Philippines
  • SUEZ Environment, consultant developing performance indicators for green and blue infrastructure in US cities.

Berger

  • Military Ocean Terminal: Intermodal Transportation & Mixed Use Development, NY/NJ.  The transfer and reuse of a former 450-acre military base in New York Harbor for world-class container port, regional park, light rail links and mixed-use development.
  •  World Trade Center Memorial & Redevelopment Plan, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), Sustainability Consulting Services.  Sustainability Consulting services to LMDC to evaluate Sustainable Design Guidelines and LEED Guidelines for new buildings and site development.
  • Military Installation, Ft. Meade, MD.  LEED Services for new Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) facility, a 1 million sf, $345 million facility for 4,200 employees in Fort Meade, MD.
  • Military Installation, Picattiny Arsenal, NJ.  LEED feasibility analysis at the military research facility.
  • Detention Center, Queens, NY.  High-Performance Design and LEED Tracking for NYC Department of Corrections project: 800-bed addition at the RMSC detention center on Rikers Island
  • Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.  LEED Advisory Services for the Queens Museum of Art project: Expansion of the historic facility, including galleries, offices and support space.  In collaboration with sub-consultants Grimshaw Architects and Buro Happold Consulting Engineers
  • United States Embassies Site Planning, Worldwide.  The upgrade of physical and technical security systems at Posts throughout the world, reconciling the protection of embassy occupants with contextual design and maintaining an image of openness.

  • Languages:  English + French (native levels)
  • Countries: Worked or resided in Vietnam, India, China, Thailand, Korea, The Philippines, South Sudan, Brazil, Abu Dhabi (UAE), Qatar, Iran, Lebanon, France, United Kingdom, Germany and throughout the United States.
  • Professional Licenses
    • Registered Architect: New York 023141-1; New Jersey 21AI01544100
    • LEED Professional: LEED BD+C; GBCI# 65300; 1/3/14; Building Design and Construction.
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Contact Information

Email: jraven@nyit.edu

Phone: 212.261.1547

Office: New York, NY

Website: jeffraven.com