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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and former Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her books include Cities at War with Mary Kaldor (Columbia University Press, 2020); Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2014; translated into 12 languages); Cities in a World Economy, 5th fully updated edition (Sage); Losing Control: Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization, The Schoff Memorial Lectures, Columbia University Press 1995; New updated edition 2016; Territory, Authority, Rights : From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2008); A Sociology of Globalization (W.W. Norton, 2007); The Global City, (Princeton University Press 1991); The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press 1988). Her books have been translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, selected for various honors lists. She was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences, selected as one of the top 100 women in the Sciences in 2018, and awarded the Geneva Picciotto Prize in 2020.

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Michael Manfredi is cofounder of WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/ Landscape/ Urbanism based in New York City and is currently a Senior Design Critic at Harvard University. His multidisciplinary firm is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. Michael Manfredi was born in Trieste, Italy and grew up in Rome. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and his Master of Architecture at Cornell University where he studied with Colin Rowe. He won the Paris Prize, was a Cornell Fellow and was awarded an Eidlitz Fellowship. He has taught design studios at Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Cornell and, most recently, at Harvard University.

Paul Lewis, FAIA, is a Principal at LTL Architects based in New York City. He is Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. His firm has completed academic and cultural projects throughout the United States.  LTL are the 2019 NY State AIA firm of the year, have received a National Design Award, have been inducted into the ID Hall of Fame, and have received multiple AIA design awards. LTL’s most recent book, Manual of Section has been translated into five languages. Paul is the President of the Architectural League and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.