Amer Alwarea is Acting Director of Research and Innovation at University for the Creative Arts.
Amer joined UCA in 2019 after previous research and academic administrative roles at UCL as an award-winning Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Associate and a Research Fellow at Place Alliance.
He has also undertaken his own research and international consultancy in the Middle East, China, and Africa, on the topic of sustainable development, urban planning, and design. He holds a PhD in Planning and Architecture from the University of Dundee (2016), MSc in the Sustainability of the Built Environment (2012), MA in City Planning (2007), and B.Arch in Architecture (2005).