Dr D.A.A. Samsura (Ary)

Ary Samsura is an urban planner with a background in both Spatial Planning and Engineering Policy Analysis. He is interested in how stakeholders in urban and regional development processes make decisions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the development process and also the quality of life in their area. Particularly, he focuses on collaboration or cooperation and competition among different stakeholders with conflicting interests, objectives, and positions from public and private sectors by implementing different scientific methodological tools including game-theoretical modelling and experiment and also Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. He is also interested in issues related to local climate mitigation and adaptation, sustainable development management, and collaborative planning.