Michel Agier

An anthropologist

Svetlana Aleksiévich

• Ivano-Frankivsk (Belarus)

Belarusian writer and journalist, 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature

Ash Amin

• Kampala (Uganda)

Geographer

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)

Philosopher

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

Anna Bach

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect

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)

Rosemary Bechler

• London (United Kingdom)

Writer, journalist, and editor of the E-zine OpenDemocracy.

Ulrich Beck

• Stolp (Germany)

Sociologist

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

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

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

Maria Buhigas

• Barcelona (Spain)

Urban planner

Richard Burdett

• London (United Kingdom)

Architect 

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.

Bruce Bégout

• Bordeaux (France)

Philosopher and writer

Lydia Cacho

• Mexico City (Mexico)

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

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.

Nerea Calvillo

• Madrid (Spain)

Architect and researcher

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

Manuel Cruz

Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona

Teddy Cruz

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

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)

Writer

Ricardo Devesa

Arquitecte

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)

José Maria Ezquiaga

• Madrid (Spain)

Architect and Sociologist

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).

Fabrizio Gallanti

Curator and architect

Teresa Galí-Izard

Landscape Architect and Agronomist 

Marina Garcés

• Barcelona (Spain)

Philosopher

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

Masha Gessen

• Moscow (Russia)

Russian-American journalist, writer and activist

Rania Ghosn

• Cambridge (United States of America)

Architect and Geographer

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici

• London (United Kingdom)

Architect

Cristina Goberna

Architect

Kathrin Golda-Pongratz

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Itzíar González Virós

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect, specialist on citizen participation and urban planning

Stephen Graham

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

Ferran Grau

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect

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

Kim Gurney

• Cape Town (South Africa)

Writer and visual artist

Hakan Günday

• Istanbul (Turkey)

Writer

Peter Hall

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

Suzanne Hall

• London (United Kingdom)

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

Philip Hoare

• Southampton (United Kingdom)

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

Eric Hobsbawm

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

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 Mineko Ichioka

• Singapore (Singapore)

Urbanist. Member of the prize jury (2010-2014)

Richard Ingersoll

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

Tim Ingold

• Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Anthropologist

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

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

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

Clare Lyster

Architect

Ana María López Sala

With a doctorate in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid

Ricardo Mar

Archaeologist

Peter Marcuse

An urban planner and lawyer

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet

• Barcelona

Playwright and guionist.

Sébastien Marot

• Paris (France)

Teacher and historian specialising in architectural theory

Juan Marsé

• Barcelona, Spain

Novelist, journalist and screenplay writer.

Gabi Martínez

• Barcelona (Spain)

Writer, Screenwriter and Journalist

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

• Paris (France)

Philosopher

Josep Maria Montaner

Professor of Architectural Composition

Xavier Monteys

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect and architecture critic

Evgeny Morozov

• New York (United States of America)

Researcher and writer

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)

Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

Environmental Epidemiologist

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

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

Marta Peirano

• Madrid (Spain)

Journalist and writer

Levente Polyak

• Budapest (Hungary)

Urban Planner and Sociologist

Daniele Porretta

• Barcelona (Spain)

Arquitecto

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

Javier Pérez Andújar

• Sant Adrià de Besòs (Spain)

Writer and philologist

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

Carlo Ratti

Carme Ribas

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Greg Richards

• Netherlands

Geographer

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)

Architect and urban planner

Hartmut Rosa

• Erfurt (Germany)

Sociologist and Political Scientist

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

Amadeu Santacana i Juncosa

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect

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.

Alessandro Scarnato

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect

Marta Segarra

• Barcelona (Spain)

Philologyst and researcher

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

Assagista i filòsof

Bashkim Shehu

• Barcelona (Spain)

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

Mimi Sheller

• Philadelphia (United States of America)

Sociologist

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

Manuel de Solà-Morales

• Barcelona (Spain)

Architect. President of the prize jury in 2008.

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

• London (United Kingdom)

Economist

Carolyn Steel

• London (United Kingdom)

Architect and thinker on food and cities

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.

Paloma Strelitz

• London (United Kingdom)

Architect

Eva Subías

• Tarragona (Spain)

Archaeologist

Marina Tabassum

• Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Architect

Gonzalo M. Tavares

• Luanda (Angola)

Writer, playwright and poet.

Georges Teyssot

An architect, he teaches at Princeton University

Nigel Thrift

• Oxford (United Kingdom)

British academic and geographer

Joaquín Tintoré Subirana

Doctor en Oceanografia física

Tzvetan Todorov

• Paris (France)

Historian, philosopher and 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)

Sociologist

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 Vilasanjuan

Director of ISGlobal’s Policy & Global Development

Eick Volker

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

Peter Wagner

• Barcelona (Spain)

Social and political theorist

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

Urbanista i historiadora de l’arquitectura

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..