Professor Cecilia Wong FAcSS FRTPI is Professor of Spatial Planning and Director of the Spatial Policy & Analysis Lab at the University of Manchester.

She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Chair of the UK2021 Research Excellent Framework’s ‘Architecture, Built Environment and Planning’ Sub-Panel.

Her research expertise includes strategic planning, spatial policy monitoring and analysis, urban and regional development, and housing and infrastructure planning.

She is a commissioner of the UK 2070 Commission on Regional Inequalities and was a commissioner of the Labour Party’s Lyons Independent Housing Review; a member of Department for Communities and Local Government’s expert panel on housing and planning; an expert panel member of the European Commission’s Urban Audit II; and an expert group member of the UN-Habitat City Prosperity Index.

She has recently completed an edited book project with Alasdair Rae on Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management (Sage, 2021). Cecilia’s work on indicators is contained in her books Quantitative Indicators for Urban and Regional Planning: the Interplay of Policy and Methods (Routledge and RTPI, 2006), and (edited with Rhonda Phillips) Handbook of Community Well-Being Research (Springer, 2017).