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Prof Nigel Mehdi
Ordinary Fellow
Departmental Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development
Department for Continuing Education
PhD (London School of Economics); MEd (Cambridge); BSc (City); FRICS; FBCS
Nigel is the Director for the DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development, a Departmental Lecturer in the Department for Continuing Education, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is a Visiting Lecturer on the Software Engineering Program in the Department of Computer Science.
He is an Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, at the University of Birmingham, and Programme Director for the National Artificial Intelligence Programme for the United Arab Emirates.
An urban economist by background, Nigel is a chartered surveyor working at the intersection of information technology, the built environment, and urban sustainability. Nigel gained his PhD in Real Estate Economics from the London School of Economics. He also holds postgraduate qualifications in Software Engineering, Politics, Development and Democratic Education, Sustainable Development, Digital Education and Professional Education and Training.
Nigel has a long-standing involvement in professional education, both as a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, where he was Chair of the UK Education Standards Board, and with the Institution of Engineering and Technology, where he is a member of the Accreditation Team for UK Engineering Council programmes in higher education. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Higher Education Academy.
Nigel was previously a Visiting Fellow in the Spatial Economics Research Centre at the London School of Economics, a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a member of the National Readers Panel for the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.
- Visit Nigel’s departmental webpage to find out more about his teaching, supervision and consultancy work, as well as recent publications.