May East

May East is an international urbanist specialised in nature-positive and gender-sensitive cities. A UNITAR Fellow, her current work involves the use of regenerative design approaches for shaping 20-minutes neighbourhoods, mining cities and informal settlements. She holds a Master of Science in Spatial Planning with specialisation in the rehabilitation of abandoned villages and a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning on the topic What if Women Designed the City?

As an educator and lecturer May East has worked with the following Academic Institutions:

• METU – Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
• Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
• Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
• International Holistic University, Brasília, Brazil
• Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
• University of Dundee, UK
• University of Catania, Italy
• PUC – Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo, Brazil
• UMAPAZ – Universidade do Meio Ambiente e Cultura de Paz, São Paulo, Brazil
• Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
• Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• University of Glasgow, UK
• The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Open University of Catalonia, Spain

Awards
• Designated one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders by Showcase Asia and ABC Carbon 2011, 2012, 2013
• Women of the Decade in Sustainability and Leadership by Women Economic Forum 2019