Professor Julian Walker starts new tenure as Director of DPU
13 September 2024
Professor Julian Walker has started his four-year tenure as the new Director of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit from the first of September 2024.
Effective from 1 September 2024, Professor Julian Walker took over from Professor Michael Walls, whose tenure was characterised by his pivotal role in supporting DPU’s community of staff and students through the challenges presented by the COVID pandemic and advancing DPU’s global partnerships and networks.
Julian Walker has previously held multiple roles at DPU including Co-Leader of the MSc Programme in Social Development Practice, Director of the DPU's Training and Advisory Services, and the Co-Director of the DPU's Gender Policy and Planning Programme.
Professor Walker is a social development practitioner whose postgraduate teaching is built from both practical engagement in development interventions, and academic research, focused on diversity and social equality, with an emphasis on gender policy and planning, disability, and child rights; urban displacement, including involuntary resettlement, and forced eviction; and pro-poor livelihoods and employment rights.
Professor Walker said:
“I am very proud to be a part of the DPU community and really look forward to taking on this role to work with my colleagues, and the wider DPU networks, to further our shared vison of social just and inclusive urban development”.