Irène Salenson

Irène Salenson holds the agrégation teaching qualification in geography and a PhD in urban planning. A consolidated version of her doctoral thesis was published in 2014, titled Jérusalem, bâtir deux villes en une, by Éditions de l’Aube. Today, she is a research coordinator within the Innovation, Research and Knowledge Department of the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement), where she is responsible for a research programme focused on urban transitions, which includes a component on “urban land commons” (see, in French: www.afd.fr/fr/page-programme-de-recherche/territoires-et-ecologie?prevId=3004).