Ingrid Jarvis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a BA in Psychology and a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation with Honours. Her CIHR-funded research examines how environmental exposures, including green and blue spaces, influence human health and development among residents of Metro Vancouver, Canada. Her research focuses on early childhood and adult exposure to surrounding urban environments in relation to a range of health indicators.

Yona Jébrak is a professor in urban studies at UQAM. Her current research explores how bottom-up and top-down narratives intertwine in order to build - and rebuild - urban resilience either in a context of stress (flooding issues in the province of Quebec) or shock (Lac-Mégantic in Canada, Christchurch in New Zealand, or Port-au-Prince in Haiti).

Mr. Günther Jedliczka became the CEO of OeAD student housing in 1998. He studied business and economics at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna. While pursuing his studies he spent two months in London and one month in Paris which helped improving his language skills and his personal growth. Back in 1999 Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker’s book “factor4” served as inspiration to construct a passive house.