Igor CalzadaDr Igor Calzada MBA (www.igorcalzada.com/about) is an inter-disciplinary academic entrepeneur in social sciences working as Lecturer, Senior Research Fellow and Policy Adviser at the University of Oxford (UK), Urban Transformations and the Future of ities Programmes. He holds a Lecturer position in the MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Similarly, he has been recently appointed Visiting Research Fellow 2016 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BCUS Brussels Centre for Urban Studies. Since 2002, he has been lecturer and research fellow at the Aston University in Birmingham (UK), Nevada (USA), Helsinki (Finland) and Mondragon (Spain). He focuses on investigating City-Region and Smart City benchmarking case studies internationally through the application of action research methods. At present, he is a partner of the H2020-REPLICATE smart city lighthouse project funded by the European Commission, coordinates the European dimension of the ESRC Urban Transformations research programme, and gives regularly keynote conferences on the critical research and policy agenda of smart cities in China, Brazil, USA, Latin America, and Europe. Read More Read Less