
Jonelle Simunich
Senior ConsultantUrban planning and architecture

London
Jonelle works as a senior strategist in Arup’s Foresight, Research and Innovation team. Jonelle specialises in sustainability, regenerative urban systems and advanced technologies that will shape the future of the built environment.
With a formal background in urban planning and architecture, she is driven to create unique experiences through physical design that impact people and build a better future world.
Jonelle manages global projects that amplify positive change to help shape our communal environments. In particular, she focuses on climate ready and resilient cities, examining design opportunities for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and investigating the impacts facing our future workplaces and disruptors shaping the built environment.
I was the project lead for our 2050 scenarios report, which examines four plausible futures at the intersection of societal conditions and planetary health.
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