Olivia Duncan is an architect and urbanist holding a Sustainable Urban Development MSc from Oxford University and is now a PhD Candidate at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture on a remote and part-time basis. She has dedicated the last sixteen years of her career to Abu Dhabi working on a variety of urban and strategic assignments. Olivia has also been lecturing in parallel to her practice work, in particular at the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Campus. Prior to her experience in the UAE, Olivia worked with architects in New Zealand, Australia, and Brazil.