Christine Auclair

Christine Auclair is Project Leader of the World Urban Campaign, a global coalition and advocacy platform established by UN-Habitat in 2010 to raise the urban agenda and promote sustainable urbanization worldwide. PhD in Urban Studies (Institut Francais d’Urbanisme, Paris), housing policy specialist, practiced architecture and planning in France up to 1993. She joined UN-Habitat in the Urban Indicators Programme (1994) to develop city data for the Habitat II Conference (Istanbul, 1996). She then joined the Global Urban Observatory, a global urban monitoring programme, later dedicated to monitoring the Millennium Development Goals. She joined UN-Habitat Partners Branch in 2006 to become Chief of the Private Sector Unit (2007-2011), where she profiled the private sector as a key partner of UN-Habitat.