Role: Core Staff | Global Designing Cities Initiative

Skye Duncan

Title: Director, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Skye Duncan joined NACTO in 2014 to serve as the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program that will develop a Global Street Design Guide and work with cities on street and public space design around the world.

Melinda Hanson

Title: Deputy Director

Melinda Hanson is the Deputy Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO. Over the past decade, Melinda has worked with a range of international organizations on initiatives to promote sustainable urban transport and support cities to adapt to climate change. She’s worked on public transit projects with the Asian Development Bank and served […]

Abhimanyu Prakash

Title: Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Abhimanyu Prakash joined NACTO in early 2015 as a Program Associate for the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program that will develop a Global Street Design Guide and work with cities on street and public space design around the world through Bloomberg’s Initiative for Global Road Safety.

Ankita Chachra

Title: Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Ankita joined NACTO in 2015 as Program Associate for the Global Designing Cities Initiative. She is currently assisting in the development of a Global Street Design Guide that will address street and public space design challenges, which cities around the world are currently facing.

Fabrizio Prati

Title: Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Fabrizio is an urban designer with a background in city planning. He recently graduated from the Master of Urban Design at UC Berkeley and previously obtained a Master in City and Regional Planning from the Paris Institute of Planning in 2008.