Amnon Frenkel

Amnon Frenkel is Professor Emeritus in Urban and Regional Planning at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, and co-director of the China-Israel Planning Innovation Centre. He served as Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich. He is a member of the board of directors of the Klutznick Center for Urban and Regional Studies, serves as Technion representative at the National Planning and Building Council, and is former president of the Israeli Section of the European Regional Science Association. Frenkel established the Spatial Capital Resources Lab at Technion to equip decision makers with top-tier data and tools for effective planning and development decisions. He is the Technion representative at EIT-Urban Mobility and is involved in several urban mobility projects. He has published widely and his recent books include Mapping National Innovation Ecosystems: Foundations for Policy Consensus (with Shlomo Maital); Societies in Motion: Innovation, Migration and Regional Transformation (with Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCann); and Technion Nation: Technion’s Contribution to Israel and the World (with Shlomo Maital). Frenkel participated in numerous planning projects on the national and regional levels including “Israel 2020” – A Master Plan for Israel in the 21st Century, the National Comprehensive Outline Scheme – NOS/35, and an Outline and Development Plan for the Northern Galilee Region.