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Areas of Expertise
Smart Cities • GGC-Water • GGC-Governance
About Dr. Geci
Dr Geci Karuri-Sebina has been Executive Manager at South African Cities Network since 2011. She previously worked withNational Treasury, the CSIR, HSRC, and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Advanced Policy Institute.
Geci holds Masters degrees in Urban Planning and Architecture from UCLA, and a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand. Her interests span a range of development foresight, policy, planning and practice topics, particularly relating to urban governance, the built environment and innovation systems.
She has two decades’ experience working and publishing in these fields. She recently published the bookInnovation Africa (Emerald Books, 2016).
Geci is a Council Member on the South African Council of Planners, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand School of Governance, and an Research Associate of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI) and the National Research Foundation’s South African Research Chairon Innovation and Development. She is also a founding director of the Southern African Node of the Millennium Project, co-founder of ForesightForDevelopment.org, an Associate Editor for theAfrican Journal for Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (Taylor & Francis), and Africa Regional Editor forForesight: The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy (Emerald).