Andrew Rudd is Human Settlements Officer in UN-Habitat’s Programme Development Branch in New York. He is leading the development of the agency’s urban biodiversity programme, now focused on risk mapping for data scarce cities. He has managed projects related to urban form and public space in more than 20 countries. Before that, he co-led the agency’s substantive advocacy efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals. Previously he worked as an architect in New York. He was lead author of Cities and Nature: Planning for the Future (UN-Habitat 2022), co-author of A New Pattern Language for Growing Cities and Regions (Sustasis 2020), and editor of The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda (Routledge 2018). Andrew studied architecture at Yale and urbanism at the LSE.