Cecilia WongCecilia Wong is Professor of Spatial Planning and Director of Spatial Policy and Analysis Lab of the Manchester Urban Institute, the University of Manchester. She is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Instiute; and Chair of the UK 2021 Research Excellence Framework 'Architecture, Built Environment and Planning' sub-panel. She has research expertise in strategic spatial planning, policy monitoring and analysis, urban and regional development, and housing and infrastructure planning, and urban planning in China. She was a commissioner of the UK2070 Commission on Regional Inequalities, a commissioner of the Labour Party's Lyons Independent Housing Review, a member of Department for Communities and Local Government's expert panel on housing and planning, an expert panel member of the European Commission's Urban Audit II, and an expert group member of the UN-Habitat City Prosperity Index. Read More Read Less