Michel Sudarskis
Michel Sudarskis began his career in the regional department of the French Ministry of Finance, in charge of the regional economic policy of the Paris Region. Then he moved to Milan to the International Institute for the Management of Technology (IIMT) responsible for the transfer policy for urban development. For over ten years Michel Sudarskis managed the civilian programmes of cooperation on scientific, environmental and challenges of modern society (CCMS) at NATO in Brussels. As Secretary General of the International Urban Development Association (INTA) in Paris, he is responsible for the development of the exchange programmes and transfer of know-how in many fields of urban development: new towns, urban renewal, mobility strategies metropolitan clusters, creativity and city innovation, housing and urban services, sustainable urbanism, renovation of historic centres, tourism and leisure as levers for development and urban integration, etc.

Lola Davidson
Lola Davidson is Coordinator of programmes in the International Secretariat of INTA, at Paris headquarters. She is  coordinating the Communities of Competence under the programme Objective 2030 and the activities of the Association. She is also the support staff member for the Community of Competence Innovation for Services. Graduated as Master of urban planning, she also graduated in Geography. She worked in an architecture firm on metropolitan centralities. She managed a comparative study on several European metropolises on urban renewal, urban diversity and sustainable development, and studies on alternatives of transports in the Paris Region. She worked in a NGO in Peru on land policy, urban settlements and public spaces in deprived neighborhoods.

Maranke de Krieger
Maranke de Krieger is administrative & membership assistant for INTA, at INTA focal point in the Netherlands. Maranke finished her study for Tourism in 2003 with an internship in the United States. In 2009 she finished a course for Management Assistant. Before INTA, she worked for Shell International and Hotelschool The Hague. At the International Secretariat of INTA she takes care of the office management, basic bookkeeping, membership finance administration, travel arrangements, registrations for INTA's activities and database management.

Volunteer support

Christine Lor
Christine Lor had represented within INTA, the company she was working for, RATP (Paris public transportation authority) for ten years. When she ceased her business activities, the INTA President, Budiarsa Sastrawinata, of whom she is the advisor, has brought her up to consider providing assistance to the International Secretariat. Michel Sudarskis asked her to monitor relationships with our French and Francophone members, to seek new members and new activities. She agreed to do so voluntarily. She is also supporting the TransMed Community of Competence.

Consultants

Viviana Rubbo
Viviana Rubbo is freelance Project Coordinator for the INTA focal point in the Netherlands. She is the support staff member for the Communities of Competence Workspace Urbanism and Metropolisation.She graduated in Architecture with a Master in Urban Regeneration at Ferrara University, Italy. In September 2003 she started her collaboration in Turin with the Local development Agency of Porta Palazzo - The Gate where she carried out public policies and housing programs to enhance the regeneration process at a local level. In 2004 she also joined YLDA Association (Young People for Local Development Association) to develop new strategies to strengthen young professional participation in local development policies (innovative housing programs for people under 35). When she moved to the Netherlands in 2009 she started to work as a freelance working on urban issues with a particular attention to the contemporary urban transformations dealing with the "elements" that make the city: people, infrastructures, architectural heritage, public spaces, etc...and the complex interactions among them.

Luis Buezo
Luis Buezo is freelance Project Coordinator for INTA. He is the support staff member for the Community of Competence Tomorrow's Habitat. Master in Sociology specialised in Organisational Analysis and Urban Sociology. Before joining INTA, he has been academic coordinator of the Master programmes in Project Management and Social Programmes at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and invited Professor at several Peruvian universities.