Organisation: International New Town Institute

Simone Rots is an architectural historian and partner of Crimson Historians & Urbanists. She is the Managing Director of the International New Town Institute, based in Rotterdam (NL). She is the Network & Financial coordinator of the Independent School for the City. Next to that, she is Programme Expert Architecture at the Ammodo Architecture Awards. Simone received her PhD from Delft, University of Technology on the topic of the meeting point of modern planning and self-organisation. As the director of Hofbogen BV she was responsible for the transformation of the nineteenth century monumental train viaduct in Rotterdam. She is experienced in developing (cultural) events in the field of architecture and urbanism on an international scale and has worked on a global level, in Latin America and Africa.