Edgar
Pieterse
UCLG-UBNUNTU, Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town and South African Research Chair in Urban Policy
Edgar Pieterse is Director of the African Centre for Cities. He is working with various colleagues to grow a network of urban research centres called: African Urban Research Initiative. Since 2016, he has co- authored several papers on the New Urban Agenda. Mr Pieterse. has been a key contributor to the previous GOLD report, “Co-creating the Urban Future” and the African Centre for Cities has been a lead contributor to the GOLD V report on the Localization of the SDGs.