In 2012, I , @sergejevic on Twitter, joined the passionate and innovative URBACT team as their Communication Manager. Before, for 10 years, I was working for the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations and was responsible for the whole communication area in the IOTA Secretariat. Following my graduate studies in political science - international relations and post-graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Latvia, I started to work in the Latvian Red Cross as the Dissemination Officer. In 2000 I joined the Latvian State Revenue Service as a Chief Specialist of Project Analysis Division within the Modernization Project Implementation Department, where I was responsible on quality and risk analysis of the State Revenue Service's Modernization Project. I am also an art photographer with several personal and group exhibitions held in Latvia and Hungary.

Desmond is a Financial Instruments Advisor at the European Investment Bank. He is a member of the fi-compass advisory team which seeks to support managing authorities and other stakeholders with the implementation of financial instruments under the European Structural Investment Funds. He also supports projects through the European Investment Advisory Hub that seeks to mobilise investment as part of the Investment Plan for Europe. Prior to joining the EIB, Desmond occupied a number of senior positions as a lawyer in the City of Manchester, working in urban development and transport, as well as in connection with the establishment of the Evergreen Urban Development Fund under the European Commission’s JESSICA initiative.

Philipp Stein is an urban expert and was a Manager for the URBACT Thematic Pole 'Cities as Platform for Integrated and Sustainable Development".

Profession: gender equality officer Mail: linda.gustafsson@umea.se Webpage: genderedlandscape.umea.se/ and umea.se/jamstalldhet