An Honorary Lecturer at STEaPP, University College London, Dr. Tim Moonen is Managing Director at The Business of Cities, an urban intelligence and policy group that works with more than 50 city governments and institutions worldwide each year, and helps larger businesses understand the opportunities in an urbanising world. He has co-authored more than 50 reports, books and chapters on city competitiveness, governance and performance, including the book World Cities and Nation States (2016), and the EIB essay series The Story of Your City: Europe and its Urban Development 1970-2020.