Commissioner A - Airports Commission

Professor Ricky Burdett

Biography

Ricky Burdett is

Professor of Urban Studies, and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme
a Visiting Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
a member of council of the Royal College of Art in London.
a judge in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative
a member of the Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition organised by US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

He was previously:

Global Distinguished Professor at New York University from 2010 to 2014
Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics
architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006
a member of the Urban Task Force which produced a major report for the UK government on the future of English cities
co-editor of ‘The endless city’ (2007), ‘Living in the endless city’ (2011) and ‘Transforming urban economies’ (2013)

Responsibilities are:

submitting a report to the government by the end of 2013 identifying and recommending options to the government for maintaining the UK’s status as an international hub for aviation
recommending to the government immediate actions to improve the use of existing runway capacity in the next 5 years – consistent with credible long-term options
submitting a final report to the government by summer 2015 assessing the environmental, economic and social costs and benefits of various solutions to increase airport capacity
considering operational, commercial and technical viability