Biography

Iegor (Yegor) Vlasenko (he/him) is an urban development practitioner and researcher with a Master of Science degree in Urban Studies from Malmö University (2017). Since April 2023, he is a Doctoral Assistant and PhD student in Architecture and City Sciences at the Laboratory of Urbanism, EPFL, working on the dissertation project entitled “Decentralisation as an Agent of Resilience? Comprehending Urbanisation and Wartime Planning in Ukraine”.

Previously, he was a component coordinator of an international technical assistance project that focuses on application of integrated urban development approach in the municipal context in Ukraine and related policy elaboration. He also served as a program director at CANactions School for Urban Studies, project coordinator at GIZ Ukraine and Kyiv School of Economics. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT Department of Urban Studies Planning in 2019–2020.

His research has been focused on studying territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe, urban commons, and urban design politics. His regional expertise includes CEE and his home country of Ukraine, Nordic countries and Baltic Sea region, and the United States.