Dr Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities, Associate Professorial Research Fellow and Associate Professor (Education) at the School of Public Policy. He is Co-Director of the LSE Executive MSc in Cities and Visiting Professor at University of St Gallen’s Institute for Mobility. Dr Rode is Co-Chair of the Bloomberg LSE European City Leadership Initiative and leads its City Government Innovation Observatory and Lab. He has been leading interdisciplinary programmes in urban development and transport, sustainable urbanism and climate change, and city policy and governance at the LSE since 2003. Across his work, he is interested in multi-dimensional aspects of global urbanisation, sustainability and urban change.