Michel Agier

An anthropologist

Svetlana Aleksiévich

• Ivano-Frankivsk (Belarus)

Belarusian writer and journalist, 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature

Ash Amin

• Kampala (Uganda)

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

Louise Amoore

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

Isabelle Anguelovski

• Barcelona (Spain)

Social Scientist trained in Urban and Environmental Planning

Xavier Antich

• La Seu d'Urgell (Spain)

PhD in Philosophy, lecturer in Aesthetics and Theory of Art at the University of Girona and also director of the Master’s Degree in Communication and Criticism.

Anne Applebaum

• Washington (United States of America)

Writer, journalist and editorial counselor.

Maria Auböck

• Munich (Germany)

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

Paul Auster

• Nueva York (EE.UU.)

Writer, film director and scriptwriter.

Pedro Azara

(Bois-Colombes, Francia, 1955), Architect

Bruce Bégout

• Bordeus (França)

Philosopher and writer, one of the most renowmed current French thinkers.

Gjergj Bakallbashi

• Tirana (Albania)

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

Enric Batlle

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Zygmunt Bauman

• Poznan (Poland)

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.

Sajia Begham

• Kabul (Afghanistan)

Lawyer and women’s rights researcher.

Oriol Bohigas

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Luc Boltanski

• París (França)

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

Jordi Borja

Geographer and urban planner

Julie-Anne Boudreau

A doctorate in Urban Studies from the School of Public and Social Research from the University of California

Ole Bouman

• Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Architect. Member of the prize jury.

Joanna Bourke

• Blenheim (New Zealand)

Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

David Bravo i Bordas

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Lindsay Bremner

Professor of Architecture at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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

Peter Burke

• London (United Kingdom)

Historian and writer

Himanshu Burte

• Mumbai (India)

Architect and Urbanist

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.

Lydia Cacho

• Ciutat de Mèxic (Mèxic) | @lydiacachosi

Journalist, writer and aactivist, who is internationally renowned for her struggle to defend human rights and to combat abuses against children and women

Peter Cachola Schmal

• Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

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

Teresa Caldeira

• Berkeley (United States of America)

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

Salvador Cardús

• Barcelona | @salvadorcardus

Sociologist

Judit Carrera

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Manuel Castells

Sociologist

Dipesh Chakrabarty

• Chicago (United States of America)

Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor.

Rafael Chirbes

• Tavernes de Valldigna, València

Writer

Angharad Closs

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

Patrick Cockburn

• County Cork (Ireland)

Journalist, The Independent's Middle East correspondent

Rodrigo Coelho

• Porto (Portugal)

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

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.

Teju Cole

• Kalamazoo, Michigan (United States of America)

Writer and photographer.

André Corboz

Historian of Art, Architecture and Urban Planning

Deborah Cowen

Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto

Jordan Crandall

An artist and media theorist

Teddy Cruz

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

Manuel Cruz

Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona

Dana Cuff

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

Salma Dalmuji

Architect

Diane Davis

• Boston (United States of America)

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

Erri de Luca

• Naples (Italy)

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

Manuel de Solà-Morales

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2008.

Georges Didi-Huberman

• Paris (France)

Philosopher and art historian

Keller Easterling

An architect and professor at the Yale School of Architecture

Alejandro Echeverri

• Medellín (Colòmbia) | @CachoEcheverri

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

Carolin Emcke

• Berlin (Germany)

Journalist and philosopher

Ulrike Engel

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

Eric Fassin

• Paris (France)

Sociologist

Gaël Faye

• Paris (France)

Rapper and writer

Luis Fernández-Galiano

Architect

Robert Fishman

Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning

Antonio Font

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Manuel Forcano

• Barcelona

Poet and translator

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.

Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent

Josep Fuses

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

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).

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).

Marina Garcés

• Barcelona (Espanya) | @MarinaGarces

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.

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.

Bronislaw Geremek

(1932-2008). Professor of European Civilisation at the College of Europe (Natolin Campus, Warsaw)

Masha Gessen

• Moscow (Russia)

Russian-American journalist, writer and activist

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Stephen Graham

Professor of Human Geography at University of Durham (UK)

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.

Montserrat Guibernau

• Londres (Regne Unit)

Professor of Political Science

Hakan Günday

• Istanbul (Turkey)

Writer

Suzanne Hall

• London (United Kingdom)

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

Peter Hall

Professor of Urban Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London.

Philip Hoare

• Southampton (United Kingdom)

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

Eric Hobsbawm

(Alexandria, 1917). Professor Emeritus of Social and Economic History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

James Holston

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

Axel Honneth

• Essen (Germany)

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

Srećko Horvat

• Osijek (Croatia)

Philosopher, author and political activist

Gus Hosein

• Londres (Regne Unit) | @GusHosein

Lawyer and director of Privacy International.

Hans Ibelings

• Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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

Sarah Ichioka

• London (United Kingdom)

Urbanist. Member of the prize jury.

Richard Ingersoll

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

Owen Jones

• Sheffield (United Kingdom)

Journalist, columnist for The Guardian and writer.

Jorge Mario Jáuregui

An architect and urban planner

Ira Katznelson 

• Nova York (Estats Units d'Amèrica)

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

Juulia Kauste

• Helsinki (Finland)

Sociologist and art historian. Member of the prize jury.

Thomas Keenan

He is Professor of History of the Mass Media and Comparative Literature

Samir Khalaf

Professor of Sociology at the American University

Michael Kimmelman

• New York (United States of America)

Essayist and journalist

Francisco R. Klauser

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

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).

Lila Leontidou

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

Josep Llinàs

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2012.

Claudio Lomnitz-Adler

• Nova York (EUA) | @clomnitz

Chilean anthropologist and historian

Ana María López Sala

With a doctorate in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid

Gonçalo M. Tavares

• Luanda (Angola)

Writer, playwright and poet.

Ricardo Mar

Archaeologist

Peter Marcuse

An urban planner and lawyer

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet

• Barcelona

Playwright and guionist.

Juan Marsé

• Barcelona, Spain

Novelist, journalist and screenplay writer.

Michela Marzano

• Roma (Italy)

Philosopher, writer and politician.

Doreen Massey

• Manchester (United Kingdom)

Writer and emeritus professor at the Open University.

Jorge Melguizo

• Medellín (Colombia) | @JorgeMelguizo

Political consultant.

Nicholas Mirzoeff

• Nueva York (EE.UU.) | @NickMirzoeff

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

Rafael Moneo

• Madrid (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2010.

Olivier Mongin

Philosopher

Josep Maria Montaner

Professor of Architectural Composition

Xavier Monteys

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Evgeny Morozov

• Nova York (Estats Units) | @EvgenyMorozov

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

Francesc Muñoz

• Barcelona (Spain)

Professor of Urban Geography at Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona

Moisés Naím

• Caracas (Venezuela) | @MoisesNaim

Analyst of the international economy and politics

Deborah Natsios

Director of Natsios Young Architects in New York

Shimon Naveh

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

Oriol Nel·lo

• Barcelona (Espanya)

Joan Nogué

• Girona (Espanya)

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

Shane O'Toole

• Kilkenny (Ireland)

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

Lluís Ortega

Architect and Distinguished Research Professor Beatriz Galindo at UPC

Javier Pérez Andújar

• Sant Adrià del Besós (Espanya) | @AnduJavierPerez

Writer and philologist

Ewa P. Porębska

• Warszawa (Poland)

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

Jeremy Packer

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

José Luis Pardo

Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid

Guillermo Peñalosa

• Montreal (Canadá)

City advisor

Jelena Prokopljević

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Michelle Provoost

• Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Architectural Historian, Director of the International New Town Institute

Jordi Puntí

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

Rasheed Rahman

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

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.

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.

Vyjayanthi Rao

She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago

Carme Ribas

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Katharina Ritter

• Wien (Austria)

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

Eduard Riu-Barrera

Archaeologist

Raquel Rolnik

• Salvador de Bahia (Brazil)

Professor, architect and urban planner

Xavier Rubert de Ventós

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

Pere Saborit

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

Saskia Sassen

• New York (United States of America)

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

Donald Sassoon

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

Marta Segarra

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Jorge Semprún

(Madrid, 1923) Writer and philosopher

Richard Sennett

• New York (United States of America)

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

Olga Sezneva

• Saint Petersburg (Russia)

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

Elif Shafak

• Strasbourg (France)

Writer and PhD in Philosophy

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.

Daryush Shayegan

An essayist and philosopher

Bashkim Shehu

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

David Simon

• Cape Town (South Africa)

Director of Mistra Urban Futures and Professor of Development Geography

AbdouMaliq Simone

Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith College of the University of London

Iain Sinclair

• Londres (Regne Unit)

British writer and film-maker.

Eyal Sivan

An Israeli film director and producer and essayist

Peter Sloterdijk

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

Michael Sorkin

• New York (United States of America)

Architect and urbanist

Eusebio Leal Spengler

With a doctorate in History from the University of Havana

Guy Standing

• Londres, Regne Unit

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

Shirley Steinberg

• Calgary (Canada)

Research Professor of Youth Studies at the University of Calgary

Dietmar Steiner

• Wien (Austria)

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

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.

Eva Subías

Archaeologist

Marina Tabassum

• Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Arquitecta

Georges Teyssot

An architect, he teaches at Princeton University

Nigel Thrift

• Oxford (United Kingdom)

British academic and geographer

Joaquín Tintoré Subirana

With a doctorate in Physical Oceanography

Tzvetan Todorov

• París (França)

Philosopher of language and well-known essayist

Francesco Tonucci

• Milan (Italy)

Educational psychologist

Elías Torres

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2006.

Nadia Urbinati

• New York (United States of America)

Political Theorist

John Urry

• Lancaster (United Kingdom) | @JohnUrry

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

Gijs Van Oenen

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

Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

• Versailles (France)

Professor in Ecological Economics and Environmental Studies

Rafael Vila-sanjuán

An assistant managing director at the CCCB

Eick Volker

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

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.

Eyal Weizman

Architect and director of the research agency Forensic Architecture

Michel Wieviorka

• Paris (França)

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

Sam Williams

• London (United Kingdom)

Lanscape Architect

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-Jacques Wunenburger

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

Maha Yahya

City planner and historian of architecture

Adam Zagajewski

• Krakow (Poland)

Poet, novelist and essayist

Viktor Zotov

• Kiev (Ukraine)

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

Sharon Zukin

Professor of Sociology at the Columbia University of New York

Matevž Čelik

• Ljubljana (Slovenia)

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