Dr Tim Moonen is Managing Director at The Business of Cities, an urban intelligence firm based in London working with more than 50 cities and institutions worldwide each year.

The co-author of Creating Great Australian Cities with Prof Greg Clark CBE, Tim leads benchmarking, advisory and research projects evaluating how cities, regions, and precincts perform and their long-term capacity to succeed, working for more than a decade with organisations such as the Brookings Institution, OECD, World Bank, JLL and the Urban Land Institute.

Tim has participated in multiple senior advisory boards informing the long-term strategic planning of city regions, second CBDs, innovation districts, and infrastructure assets (including New York, Moscow, Oslo, Amsterdam, London, San Diego), and guiding the urban market strategies of global businesses and investors.

Tim also teaches executive-level education for international companies and universities. He is Honorary Lecturer at the City Leadership Laboratory, UCL, Non-Resident Fellow at Brookings Institution, and is the co-author of the book World Cities and Nation States.