Together, we’re Marvelous
Meet a few of our experts
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Anete Ušča
Board member & PhD candidate at the European University Institute
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Indra Purs
Board member & freelance researcher in landscape architecture, circular economy, LAAA Board member
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Margarita Vološina
Urban Shift co-creator & Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
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Kristaps Kaugurs
Urban planning & regional development, Business administration, Communication expert, a snob & general ‘know-it-all’. Strangely enough, he is first person ever to be employed by UI.
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Jonas Büchel
Free lancing social & cultural urban and regional planner, Free Riga, Network of European Civic Education, founder and director of “Kamen spricht” (a local German political initiative)
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Helena Gutmane
LAAA president
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Marc Geldof
Consultant of spatial planning and mobility, Member of VRP Flanders
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Gunta Lukstiņa
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Pēteris Šķiņķis
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Guna Garokalna
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Signe Pērkone
Architect, working in the intersection of research and practice
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Ramon Cordova
Practicing architect, researcher and relational thinker