Ares Kalandides is Professor of Place Management and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the founder and Managing Director of Inpolis Urbanism, an international Berlin-based consultancy in urban and regional development policy. He has implemented numerous projects in Germany and internationally and consulted various districts, cities, and regions around the world, including in South Africa, Colombia and Australia. In 2008 he launched the International Place Branding Conference series, which has given birth to the current International Place Branding Association. He is one of the first scholars to research the potential of creative industries in Germany and is the author of the policy frameworks on creative economy, media, and ICT in the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. As a member of the board of directors (2017-2019) for Eleusis, European Capital of Culture 2021,
he was responsible for the fields of cultural dissemination and cultural citizenship. His most recent publication is the Routledge Handbook of Place (2020) which he co-edited with Tim Edensor and Uma Kothari. The volume examines aspects of place conceptualisation and identity.
In addition to his scientific publications, he is an editorial member of the Journal of Place Management and Development and the Greek journal Geographies, and a member of the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.
He is currently adjunct professor at New York University (Berlin site), where he teaches two undergraduate courses, one in Urban Studies and one in the departments of History and Sociology. He is a guest lecturer in Urban Economics at the Urban Management programme of
the Technical University (Berlin). Born in Athens (Greece) in 1965 Ares Kalandides graduated in Romance Studies, completed a post-graduate master’s programme in Urban and Regional Planning and holds a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens. His current research focuses mostly on the topic of urban citizenship and citizen participation in urban development. He is a certified conflict mediator.