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John McCarthy

Associate Professor

Campus
Edinburgh
Research Institute
The Urban Institute

Biography

John has worked as a practitioner in spatial planning in London and elsewhere and has worked in academia since 1992. He is an active member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and currenly chairs the Partnership Boards of London South Bank University and Hong Kong University. He also represents UK planning schools on the RTPI's Membership Assessment Advisory Group, and he represented non-Russell Group Universities on the RTPIs' 2017 Education Policy Review Group. He was a member of the Scottish Government's 2017 Planning Review Working Group which advised on the 2017 Scottish Planning Bill.