Sonia Guelton – WG 1 leader

Professor in Urban studies and planning at the Parisian School of Urbanism (University of Paris Est) since 1999 and Graduated from High School for Business (HEC Paris- 1980). She has developed two fields of research: local economics and land economics, specially looking at financial arrangements and territorial socio-economics impact. She develops research studies with public research agencies (PUCA, INRA) and governmental institutions in France (Ministère de l‘Ecologie, de l’Energie, du Développement durable et de la Mer), and has acted as expert for national and international institutions. Between others she recently contributed to a collective research on Land consumption (ESCo Artificialisation des sols, 2017, INRA/ IFFSTAR) and to the regional Land Observatory (Société du Grand Paris and ORF IdF, 2015-16). She is an active member of European Academy of Land Use and Development, International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights and Foncier en Débat. She also takes part in the research of Chair “a ménager le Grand Paris”, especially on land economics around the new stations, and supports Young researchers’ European network on Land issues. In 2019, she has provided a report for Lincoln Institute of Land Policies and cooperates in a JPI Urban Europe research program, both on the topic of land Value Capture.