Patrick Lamson-Hall

Dr. Patrick Lamson-Hall leads the Urban Expansion and the Periphery program at the Africa School of Economics in Zanzibar. He is the co-founder of Fitted Projects, a leading agency specializing in urban and economic planning. As an urban planner, he has developed planning projects and urban plans in over thirty cities across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, including the ZEDE Morazán in Honduras. He is a research affiliate at the Marron Institute for Urban Management at New York University (NYU) and has worked closely with Cities Alliance, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Associates, UN-Habitat, and the World Bank. A globally recognized expert on urban growth, he has developed new planning techniques for rapidly growing, low-income cities. Patrick Lamson-Hall holds a master’s degree in urban planning and a PhD in public administration from the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU.