Ash Amin

• Kampala (Uganda)

Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and vice-president of the British Academy

Ulrich Beck

• Stolp (Germany)

Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Bruce Bégout

• Bordeaux (France)

Philosopher and writer

Teresa Caldeira

• Berkeley (United States of America)

Anthropologist and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patrick Cockburn

• County Cork (Ireland)

Journalist, The Independent's Middle East correspondent

Jean-Louis Cohen

Architect and Director of the Institut Français d´Architecture, Paris

Daniela Colafranceschi

• Catanzaro (Italy)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Peter Hall

Catedràtic d’Urbanisme a la Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.

Eric Hobsbawm

(Alexandria, 1917). Professor emèrit d’Història social i econòmica del Birkbeck College, Universitat de Londres.

Thomas Keenan

Professor d’Història dels mitjans de comunicació i de Literatura comparada

Michela Marzano

• Roma (Italy)

Philosopher, writer and politician.

Olivier Mongin

• Paris (France)

Philosopher

Evgeny Morozov

• New York (United States of America)

Essayist, researcher on social and political effects of new technologies.

Javier Pérez Andújar

• Sant Adrià de Besòs (Spain)

Writer and philologist

Daryush Shayegan

Assagista i filòsof

AbdouMaliq Simone

Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith College of the University of London

Peter Sloterdijk

Regarded as one of one of Germany’s most important post-war philosophers

Eusebio Leal Spengler

With a doctorate in History from the University of Havana

Eva Subías

• Tarragona (Spain)

Archaeologist

Gonzalo M. Tavares

• Luanda (Angola)

Writer, playwright and poet.

Nigel Thrift

• Oxford (United Kingdom)

British academic and geographer

Joaquín Tintoré Subirana

Doctor en Oceanografia física

Tzvetan Todorov

• Paris (France)

Historian, philosopher and essayist

Gijs Van Oenen

A political scientist and lecturer in Philosophy of Law at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Maha Yahya

Urbanista i historiadora de l’arquitectura

Tim Ingold

• Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Anthropologist

Lydia Cacho

• Mexico City (Mexico)

Journalist, writer and activist for women and children's rights

Xavier Monteys

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect and architecture critic, Professor of Architectural Projects at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB).

Bronislaw Geremek

(1932-2008). Catedràtic de civilització europea del College of Europe a Natolin (Varsòvia).

Xavier Antich

• La Seu d'Urgell (Spain)

Philosopher

Jordi Puntí

(Manlleu, 1967). A writer and regular commentator for Catalunya Ràdio, El Periódico and L’Avenç

Guy Standing

• London (United Kingdom)

Economist, Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University

Rafael Vilasanjuan

Director of ISGlobal’s Policy & Global Development

Keller Easterling

An architect and professor at the Yale School of Architecture

Lila Leontidou

Dean of the School of Humanities at the Hellenic Open University, Athens

Michel Wieviorka

• Paris (França)

Sociologist and director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Oriol Nel·lo

• Barcelona (Espanya)

Teddy Cruz

Architect and lecturer in urbanism at the University of California, San Diego

Vyjayanthi Rao

She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago

Xavier Rubert de Ventós

(Barcelona, 1939) Professor of Aesthetics at the Escola d’Arquitectura of Barcelona

Manuel Castells

Sociologist

Anne Applebaum

• Washington (United States of America)

Writer, journalist and editorial counselor.

Rafael Chirbes

• Tavernes de Valldigna, València

Writer

Marina Garcés

• Barcelona (Espanya)

Philosopher, tenured lecturer at the University of Zaragoza and coordinator of “Espai en Blanc" (Blank Space) a collective initiative aiming at a committed, practical and experimental relationship with philosophical thinking.

Stephen Graham

Professor de Geografia humana a la Universitat de Durham (Regne Unit)

Joanna Bourke

• Blenheim (New Zealand)

Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Julie-Anne Boudreau

Doctorada en estudis urbans per l’Escola de Política Pública i Recerca social de la Universitat de Califòrnia

Lindsay Bremner

Professor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Jean-Jacques Wunenburger

Professor of Philosophy at the Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3)

Sharon Zukin

Professor of Sociology at the Columbia University of New York

Jorge Semprún

(Madrid, 1923) Writer and philosopher

Georges Teyssot

An architect, he teaches at Princeton University

Eduard Riu-Barrera

Archaeologist

Luis Fernández-Galiano

Architect

André Corboz

Historian of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning

Pedro Azara

(Bois-Colombes, Francia, 1955), Architect

Himanshu Burte

• Mumbai (India)

Architect and Urbanist

Richard Burdett

• London (United Kingdom)

Professor of Urban Studies and director of the LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics

Diane Davis

• Boston (United States of America)

Sociologist and geograph, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard University.

Josep Fuses

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect and Coordinator of Architectural Studies at the Polytechnic School of the University of Girona (UdG).

Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Chicago (United States of America)

Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor.

David Bravo i Bordas

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect, Secretary of the Jury of the European Prize for Urban Public Space

Lluís Ortega

Architect and Distinguished Research Professor Beatriz Galindo at UPC

Dietmar Steiner

• Wien (Austria)

Architect and former director of the Architekturzentrum Wien. Member of the prize jury.

Michael Sorkin

• New York (United States of America)

Architect and urbanist

Olga Sezneva

• Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Urban sociologist. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Michelle Provoost

• Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Architectural Historian, Director of the International New Town Institute

Sam Williams

• London (United Kingdom)

Lanscape Architect

Suzanne Hall

• London (United Kingdom)

Professor in Sociology at the LSE and co-director of the  Cities programme

Shane O'Toole

• Kilkenny (Ireland)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Rodrigo Coelho

• Porto (Portugal)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Jelena Prokopljević

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect and urbanist. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Bashkim Shehu

• Barcelona (Spain)

Writer and translator. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Viktor Zotov

• Kiev (Ukraine)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Gjergj Bakallbashi

• Tirana (Albania)

Architect. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Maria Auböck

• Munich (Germany)

Architect, landscaper, and lecturer. Member of the Prize’s Board of Experts.

Isabelle Anguelovski

• Barcelona (Spain)

Social Scientist trained in Urban and Environmental Planning

Albert García Espuche

• Barcelona (Spain)

 Architect and historian. Member of the prize jury.

Jan Gehl

• Copenhagen (Denmark)

Architect and urbanist. Member of the prize jury.

Oriol Bohigas

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect and writer. President of the prize jury in 2000 and in 2004.

Elías Torres

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2006.

Manuel de Solà-Morales

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2008.

Rafael Moneo

• Madrid (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2010.

Ole Bouman

• Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Architect. Member of the prize jury.

Josep Llinàs

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2012.

Sarah Ichioka

• London (United Kingdom)

Urbanist. Member of the prize jury.

Carme Ribas

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect, Manager of the Besòs Consortium, President and Secretary of the prize jury in 2014 and 2006, respectively.

Juulia Kauste

• Helsinki (Finland)

Sociologist and art historian. Member of the prize jury.

Enric Batlle

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect, lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and President of the prize jury in 2016.

Hans Ibelings

• Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Architecture critic and historian. Member of the jury and, previously, of the expert committee of the Prize.

Matevž Čelik

• Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Architect. Director of the Architecture and Design Museum of Ljubljana and member of the prize jury.

Katharina Ritter

• Wien (Austria)

Programme coordinator at the Architekturzentrum Wien. Member of the prize jury.

Francis Rambert

• Paris (France)

Architect. Head of the Architectural Creation Department at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. Member of the prize jury.

Ewa P. Porębska

• Warszawa (Poland)

Architect and architecture critic. Member of the prize jury and expert committee.

Peter Cachola Schmal

• Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Architect and architecture critic. Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM) and member of the jury.

Ellis Woodman

• London (United Kingdom)

Architect and architecture critic. Director of The Architecture Foundation (AF), member of the jury and, previously, of the expert committee of the Prize.

Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

• Versailles (France)

Professor in Ecological Economics and Environmental Studies

Richard Sennett

• New York (United States of America)

Sociologist and writer, professor at the London School of Economics (LSE)

David Simon

• Cape Town (South Africa)

Director of Mistra Urban Futures and Professor of Development Geography

Elif Shafak

• Strasbourg (France)

Writer and PhD in Philosophy

Adam Zagajewski

• Krakow (Poland)

Poet, novelist and essayist

Srećko Horvat

• Osijek (Croatia)

Philosopher, author and political activist

Francesc Muñoz

• Barcelona (Spain)

Professor of Urban Geography at Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona

Gaël Faye

• Paris (France)

Rapper and writer

Francesco Tonucci

• Milan (Italy)

Educational psychologist

Carolin Emcke

• Berlin (Germany)

Journalist and philosopher

Marina Tabassum

• Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Arquitecta

Nadia Urbinati

• New York (United States of America)

Political Theorist

Hakan Günday

• Istanbul (Turkey)

Writer

Raquel Rolnik

• Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)

Professor, architect and urban planner

Georges Didi-Huberman

• Paris (France)

Philosopher and art historian

Peter Burke

• London (United Kingdom)

Historian and writer

Eyal Weizman

Architect and director of the research agency Forensic Architecture

Eric Fassin

• Paris (France)

Sociologist

Michael Kimmelman

• New York (United States of America)

Essayist and journalist

Svetlana Aleksiévich

• Ivano-Frankivsk (Belarus)

Belarusian writer and journalist, 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature

Michel Agier

An anthropologist

Saskia Sassen

• New York (United States of America)

Sociologist, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, New York.

Teju Cole

• Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States of America)

Writer and photographer.

Judit Carrera

• Barcelona (Spain)

Political Scientist, director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space

Masha Gessen

• Moscow (Russia)

Russian-American journalist, writer and activist

Paul Auster

• Nueva York (EE.UU.)

Writer, film director and scriptwriter.

Nicholas Mirzoeff

• Nueva York (EE.UU.) | @NickMirzoeff

Theorist of visual culture and professor at the New York University (NYU).

Doreen Massey

• Manchester (United Kingdom)

Writer and emeritus professor at the Open University.

Judith Butler

• Berkeley (United States of America)

Philospher, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ricardo Mar

Archaeologist

Owen Jones

• Sheffield (United Kingdom)

Journalist, columnist for The Guardian and writer.

Juan José Lahuerta

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect, head of collections at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), member of the Collegio Docenti della Scuola Dottorati del Istituto Universitario di Architettura (IUAV) of Venice and also holder of the King Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization at New York University (NYU).

Juan Marsé

• Barcelona, Spain

Novelist, journalist and screenplay writer.

Marta Segarra

• Barcelona (Spain)

Marta Segarra is professor of French Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Barcelona.

Philip Hoare

• Southampton (United Kingdom)

Writer and professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.

Peter Wagner

• Barcelona (Espanya)

Political Scientist, holds a Phd from the Free University of Berlin. He is the director of the international research group TRAMOD, "Trajectories of Modernity: Comparison of European and Non-European Varieties", in the University of Barcelona.

Bo Stråth

• Helsinki (Finland)

Emeritus Professor of Nordic, European and World History, and Research Director at the Centre of Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Guillermo Peñalosa

• Montreal (Canadá)

City advisor

Iain Sinclair

• Londres (Regne Unit)

British writer and film-maker.

Manuel Forcano

• Barcelona

Poet and translator

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet

• Barcelona

Playwright and guionist.

Ira Katznelson 

• Nova York (Estats Units d'Amèrica)

Americanist, Political Scientist and Historian, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University.

Antonio Font

• Barcelona (Spain)

Professor of Urban Planning at the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV)

Luc Boltanski

• París (França)

Sociologist, writer and head of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Montserrat Guibernau

• Londres (Regne Unit)

Professor of Political Science

Salvador Cardús

• Barcelona | @salvadorcardus

Sociologist

Claudio Lomnitz-Adler

• Nova York (EUA) | @clomnitz

Chilean anthropologist and historian

Jorge Melguizo

• Medellín (Colombia) | @JorgeMelguizo

Political consultant.

Shirley Steinberg

• Calgary (Canada)

Research Professor of Youth Studies at the University of Calgary

Axel Honneth

• Essen (Germany)

Philosopher, sociologist and director of the Institut für Sozialforschung at the University of Frankfurt

Zygmunt Bauman

• Poznan (Poland)

Pete Fussey

• London (United Kingdom) | @PeteFussey

Pete Fussey is a criminologist and Professor of Sociology in the prestigious Department of Sociology at the University of Essex (United Kingdom).

Nancy Fraser

• Baltimore (USA)

Nancy Fraser, political scientist, philosopher, and Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research, New York.

Frédéric Gros

• Paris (France)

Professor of Philosophy at the Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne University and of Political Thought at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences-Po) in Paris.

Sajia Begham

• Kabul (Afghanistan)

Lawyer and women’s rights researcher.

John Urry

• Lancaster (United Kingdom) | @JohnUrry

Economist, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University.

Josep Ramoneda

• Barcelona (España)

Journalist, philosopher and writer, a regular columnist in the newspaper El País and commentator on the radio station Cadena Ser and director of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona from 1994 to 2011.

Moisés Naím

• Caracas (Venezuela) | @MoisesNaim

Analyst of the international economy and politics

Kamila Shamsie

• London (United Kingdom) | @KamilaShamsie

Writer of Pakistani origin who has published seven novels and who won the Prime Minister's Award for Literature of Pakistan.

Erri de Luca

• Naples (Italy)

Poet, writer, translator and former leader of the far-left movement Lotta Continua.

Joan Nogué

• Girona (Espanya)

Professor of Human Geography at the University of Girona and director of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia.

Gemma Galdón

• Barcelona (Espanya) | @GemmaGaldon

Security researcher and professor on Technology and Society at the University of Barcelona and coordinator of the Observatory of Resistance and Subcultures (RiSc).

Gus Hosein

• Londres (Regne Unit) | @GusHosein

Lawyer and director of Privacy International.

Alejandro Echeverri

• Medellín (Colòmbia) | @CachoEcheverri

Architect and urban planner, director of the Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (Urbam) at EAFIT University.

Rasheed Rahman

(Lahore, 1948). One of Pakistan’s most outstanding journalists

Salma Dalmuji

Architect

José Luis Pardo

Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid

Eyal Sivan

An Israeli film director and producer and essayist

Shimon Naveh

Director of the Operational Theory Research Institute of the National Defence College of Israel

Peter Marcuse

An urban planner and lawyer

Angharad Closs

With a doctorate from the Institute for Political and International Studies at Keele University

Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent

Jeremy Packer

Associate professor in the School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

Jordan Crandall

An artist and media theorist

Francisco R. Klauser

A researcher and member of the Institute for Hazard and Risk Research at Durham University

Ulrike Engel

With a degree in Art History and Architecture from the Martin-Luther-University (Saale) and the Technical University (Berlin)

Dana Cuff

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles

Deborah Cowen

Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto

Deborah Natsios

Director of Natsios Young Architects in New York

Ana María López Sala

With a doctorate in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid

Pere Saborit

Lecturer in Philosophy in the Humanities Faculty at the Open University of Catalonia and the Banús Secondary School

Eick Volker

A political scientist, he works at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University in Berlin

Louise Amoore

Working on issues of risk, economy and security at the Institute for Hazard and Risk Research

Donald Sassoon

(Cairo). Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London.

James Holston

Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of San Diego, California

Manuel Cruz

Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona

Jorge Mario Jáuregui

An architect and urban planner

Richard Ingersoll

An architect with a doctorate from the University of Berkeley (California)

Josep Maria Montaner

Professor of Architectural Composition

Samir Khalaf

Professor of Sociology at the American University

Jordi Borja

Geographer and urban planner

Robert Fishman

Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning