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Vice President and Former President

Professor and Director of INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) at Ulster University

Vice President and Former President

FAIA, LEED AP BD+C Director, Graduate Program in Urban + Regional Design | Associate Professor New York Institute of Technology (NYIT-Manhattan)

Ravi Guru is the Deputy Director General at All India Institute of Local Self Government. His professional experience is concentrated on climate change, climate resilience & mitigation, policy development, state action plan on climate change, environmental management, sustainable development, CDM, renewable energy and energy management.

Prof. Didier Vancutsem, is an urban planner and a landscape architect, who brings extensive experience in international projects. He is professor at the ULB University and former ISOCARP Secretary General. He was elected president of Pilot4dev in October 2025. Prof. at ULB, head of the Master Resilient Cities, former ISOCARP General Secretary

Jan Kragt, is the founder of Innovative Power and Eureducation, and actively involved in the project AI4DEBUNK

Dr. Alain Simon is a Belgian expert in Marine Ecology with experience both in Europe and in the U.S. He is in charge of environmental affairs at the municipality of Molenbeek in the Brussel's region, and he is one of the founders of the 'House of Nature' in Molenbeek. He is also a scuba diving instructor. He joined the Board of Pilot4dev in December 2023. 

With its African roots from Burkina Faso, Eric Alira has lived in Austria, Poland and Belgium, where he's played a key role in regional and EU politics. Eric is Independent consultant on European ACP-EU development policy issues, former Member of Parliament for Lower Silesia in Poland and Vice-Chairman of the region's Foreign Affairs Committee, former Parliamentary Advisor to the Development Committee (DEVE) at the European Parliament in Brussels.