Director, Center for Favela Studies (CEFAVELA), Brazil

Jeroen Klink is a Dutch urban planner and economist. He has previously worked as a staff member at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) at Erasmus University (Rotterdam). In Brazil, he served for nine years as the Municipal Secretary for Development Planning in the city of Santo André (Greater São Paulo). He is currently a full professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), also in Greater São Paulo, where he serves as Director of the Center for Favela Studies (CEFAVELA). Since 2020, he has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Studies Foundation (Glasgow), where he holds the roles of Treasurer and Chair of the International Fellowship Program.