Cathy Oke

Melbourne

Dr Cathy Oke is Melbourne Enterprise Senior Fellow in Informed Cities at the Connected Cities Lab, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning University of Melbourne. She has considerable international and local expertise in sustainable, resilient and liveable cities. Cathy’s interests focus on the interaction between urban nature and climate research, policy and practice for greater impact in cities. She is project leader of the SDGs Cities Challenge, and Senior Advisor to the Innovate4Cities program of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy; and is the chair of ICLEI’s Global Urban Sustainability Research portfolio, and co-chair of ICLEI’s CitiesWithNature knowledge hub.