Samer Bagaeen

Prof. Samer Bagaeen FRTPI FRICS FICE is Vice President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (2026), and will serve as President of the Royal Town Planning Institute from January 2027.
Professor Bagaeen is a Technical Director in Town Planning & Stakeholder Capability at Arcadis in London, and previously worked as an Associate Director with the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities programme working directly with city leaders in Amman, Ramallah, Tbilisi, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Byblos and Lisbon.
Professor Bagaeen is also Head of School of Town Planning at the University of the Built Environment in the UK, and Visiting Professor in Urban Resilience at Imperial College London.
He has served since 2019 as an elected city council member in Brighton and Hove, England. He has been training chartered planners since 2006.