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Wolfgang Egger

Wolfgang Egger is Head of Audi Group Design. Following his studies of Industrial Design at the College of Arts and Sciences in Milan, Egger began his career in 1989 as an exterior designer for Alfa Romeo, where he became Senior Designer for exteriors at the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo in 1993. He joined Seat in Spain in 1998, where he oversaw the development of the Altea and Leon series production vehicles as well as the studies Concept Salsa, Concept Emotión and Concept Tango.

Egger was named Head of Centro Stile Lancia in 2001. During the same year, he transferred to the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, where he held the same position and led work on the development of the Alfa models 147GTA, 159 and 159 Sportwagon, Brera, Concept 8c Competizione and Concept 8c Spider, among others. Since May 2007, Egger has been Head of Audi Group Design in Ingolstadt and, as such, carries full design responsibility for the Audi and Lamborghini brands.

Fernando de Mello Franco

Fernando de Mello Franco is Professor at São Judas Tadeu University in São Paulo. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in São Paulo, de Mello Franco became a Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, where he began collaboration with the landscape architect Christian Werthmann, which resulted in the 2009 study and exhibition entitled Tactical Operations in the Informal City. Together with Marta Moreira and Milton Braga, de Mello

Franco founded MMBB Architects in São Paulo in 1990. Notable areas of focus within the broad spectrum covered in his projects and investigations are urban mobility systems and water resources management. His research was recognized with the Best Entry Award at the Rotterdam International Biennale in 2007. Among other exhibitions, de Mello Franco co-authored the exhibition São Paulo: networks and places at the 2006 Venice Biennale.

Christian Gärtner

Christian Gärtner is Director of Stylepark AG. He studied Economics in Heidelberg and Berlin and worked as a consultant for several years before becoming one of the co-founders of the Internet platform Stylepark in Frankfurt / Main in 2000.Since then, Gärtner has initiated, conceived and contributed to diverse projects in the areas of design and architecture, including Stylepark

in Residence at the imm cologne and The Design Annual, in cooperation with Messe Frankfurt. Moreover, he advises companies in the development and optimization of specific competencies in all areas of design. In the competition for the Audi Urban Future Award, Christian Gärtner assumes the dual role of curator and member of the jury.

Andreas Lepik

Andres Lepik is Curator of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Following his studies of Art History and German Literature in Augsburg and Munich, he earned a Ph.D. in Rome with a dissertation entitled Architectural Models of the Renaissance. Lepik joined the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin as a curator in 1994. From 2004 to 2007, he was curator for the architecture of the 20th and 21st Centuries at the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche

Museen zu Berlin. He has been with the Museum of Modern Art since 2007. Among the architectural exhibitions he has curated are “Renzo Piano” (2000), “Content/Rem Koolhaas and AMO/OMA” (2003/2004), “Oswald Mathias Ungers. Cosmos of Architecture” (2006) and “In Situ. Architecture and Landscape” (2009) Lepik is the author of numerous books and articles on the architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Jun Ma

Jun Ma is Vice Dean of the School of Automotive Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai. After graduating from the Technische Universität Darmstadt with a degree in Automotive Electronics, Jun Ma gained 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, seven in electronic development and six in marketing and after-sales. He was responsible for technical development, marketing and management at both Conti Teves

and Audi. In 2004, he followed an invitation from Wan Gang, a former Audi colleague and Minister of Economics and Technology in China since 2007, to teach at the Tongji University in Shanghai. Jun Ma serves as Vice Secretary of the Shanghai FCV Partnership and as an automotive engineering expert for diverse associations and political advisory boards for the Chinese automobile industry.

Rahul Mehrotra

Rahul Mehrotra teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and heads the architectural firm RMA Architects in Mumbai. Following his studies in Architecture in Ahmedabad, India, he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Mehrotra founded his own practice in 1990, which today goes by the name of RMA Architects. As an architect and urban planner, he has since focused intensively on urban renewal and conservation projects. Several of his designs have received awards, including the Lakshmi Machine Works

corporate office in Coimbatore, India. Mehrotra’s studies and publications focus on urban development throughout India and in Mumbai in particular. As an activist and consultant, Mehrotra is dedicated to the issue of the conservation of historical buildings in Mumbai. He has been Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai since 1994 and, since 2007, Professor at the MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York and Chairman of the Jury for the Audi Urban Future Award. Born in the Netherlands, Sassen grew up in Argentina and Italy. She studied Sociology, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, at the Université de Poitiers in France and at Harvard University. In her international research activities, Sassen addresses themes of globalization in a social, economic and political context as well as questions relating to migration and the development of urban agglomerations and megacities. As a sociologist and economist, she

coined the concept of the “global city” in the 1990s. For her five-year UNESCO research project “Sustainable Human Settlement”, which was completed in 2005, Sassen established a scholarly network in over 30 countries. She is the Robert S. Lynd Professor for Sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her publications, which include The Global City (1991, 2nd edition 2001), Cities in a World Economy (1994, 3rd edition 2006), and Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006) have been translated into 21 languages.

Stefan Sielaff

Stefan Sielaff is Head of Audi Design. Following his studies in Industrial Design at the FH Munich, he went on to study Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art in London, sponsored by Audi AG, where he earned an MA in 1990. The same year, he began his career in the interior design department of Audi Design in Ingolstadt. He transferred to the Audi Design Center in Munich in 1993, and in 1995 he was entrusted with the planning and set-up of the Design Center Europe

in Sitges, Spain. Sielaff returned to Ingolstadt in 1997 as Head of Audi Interior Design. In 2002, he contributed to the development and strategic orientation of the design concept for the Audi brand group. Sielaff left Audi in 2003 to join Daimler Chrysler where, as Design Director of the Interior Competence Center in Sindelfingen, he was responsible for the interior design of all current models. He has been Head of Audi Design in Ingolstadt since March 2006.

Rupert Stadler

Rupert Stadler is Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi AG and Member of the Board of Volkswagen AG. He studied Business Management at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, with an emphasis on Corporate Planning/ Controllership and Finance, Banking and Investment. Stadler began his career at Philips Kommunikation Industrie AG in Nuremberg before joining Audi AG in Ingolstadt in 1990, where he assumed various controlling tasks in the area of sales and marketing. He transferred to Volkswagen/Audi España SA in Barcelona as

Commercial Director in 1994. From 1997, Stadler was Head of the Board of Management’s Office for the Volkswagen Group, as well as Head of Group Product Planning. Stadler has been a Member of the Board of Audi AG since January 1, 2003. He was responsible for the Finance and Organizational Division from April 1, 2003 to August 31, 2007. On January 1, 2007 Rupert Stadler was named Chairman of the Board of Audi AG, and he was appointed to the Board of Volkswagen AG on January 1, 2010.