Professor Christoph Lindner is President of the Royal College of Art, the internationally renowned art and design postgraduate university, where he also holds the title of Professor of Visual Culture. He previously served as Dean of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London, Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, and Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. An interdisciplinary scholar of cities, he is the author and editor of 15 books in the fields of art, architecture, media and cultural studies, and urban geography.