Urbanism. Journalism. Consulting.

Jessica Bridger is an urbanist, consultant and journalist. Her consultancy is focused on strategy, project development and communications. She applies expertise in urbanism, sustainability and resilience, leveraging her broad international network. She holds a MLArch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She has worked with international governmental organizations, large corporations and universities. Her clients include the United Nations, the European Roundtable for Industry (ERT), Schindler Group, Winkreative and the ETH Zurich. Her work blends research, strategy, expert knowledge and communications, and she often serves as a sparring partner for companies active in the urban realm. She is also a professional journalist and serves as a contributing editor for Monocle Magazine.

Jessica has lectured, taught and moderated for the United Nations (UN-Habitat), United Cities and Local Government, OnCities2030, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Future Cities Laboratory Singapore (ETH/NUS), National University of Singapore, among others. During autumn 2024 she taught a design studio and a seminar as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

She is the author, with Christian Werthmann, of Metropolis Nonformal (2016), editor of The European Roundtable for Industry’s ERT 40 (2023), Textbook by Kees Christiaanse (2018), and co-editor of the Schindler Global Award: Essays/Projects (editions 2015, 2017 & 2019), Landscape Architecture Europe (2015) and Research in Architecture (2012).