who we are
A multi-disciplinary team of passionate individuals
Allow us to introduce ourselves. We're a team of passionate people dedicated to making cities better places to live. We're not cyclists, we're just people who happen to get around by bike and who believe in the role of the bicycle as a tool to improve quality of life. Our team is trained in planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, education, communication, and wayfinding. We come from different countries and continents with diverse backgrounds and hobbies. But, most importantly, we are all committed to building a more bicycle-friendly future and want you to join us on this journey.
Clotilde Imbert
Director
Clotilde is the director of Copenhagenize, managing a broad range of projects that make cities around the world more bike-friendly. As an urban planner specialized in sustainable urban development, she has intricate knowledge of bicycle infrastructure and communications strategies. She manages a team of talented designers, architects, and planners producing world-class projects from the Paris office.
Master of Urban Planning, Paris IV-Sorbonne - Paris, France
Arthur Duhamel
Head of urban design
Arthur is the head of the urban design department of Copenhagenize. As an urbanist specialized in master planning and urban design, Arthur brings forward human-oriented approaches in the development of bicycle facilities and infrastructure. His professional experience in integrated mobility and public space projects spans across all scales, from strategic visioning, to design and implementation. In his spare time, he enjoys bikepacking in the wilderness.
OPQU urban planner
Master of urban planning and design, Université de Montreal - Montreal, Canada
Master in urban project management, Université de Montreal & HEC - Montreal, Canada
Kassandra McCleery
Research and education project manager
Kassandra is an urban planner specialized in gender inclusive approaches to planning and community development. From her community building work she has developed a strong ability to mobilize people, develop programming, and manage multiple stakeholders and partnerships. She advocates for more bike-friendly and inclusive cities through her work coordinating research projects and educational and outreach activities at Copenhagenize.
Master of Urban Planning at McGILL University - Montreal, Canada
Sami Ibrahim
Head of cycling strategy
Sami is the head of the cycling strategy department of Copenhagenize in charge of managing cycling strategies projects, assessing cycling policies, and more broadly assisting local and national authorities in achieving their bike-related policy objectives. Specialized in strategic urban development, he has strong public policy advisory skills which he applies to different international contexts. Alongside his role at Copenhagenize, his research activity focuses on urban models and transnational urbanism.
PhD in Urban Planning, Paris School of Urban Planning, Gustave Eiffel University - Paris, France
Diabou Danso
Office manager
Diabou brings several years of administrative experience to the Copenhagenize team. She takes care of organizing master classes, administrative procedures, and human resources. Diabou enjoys discovering her environment and new places by bike.
Master in Human Resources, Paris 12 University - Paris, France
Mathilde Chesneau
Architect-urban designer
Mathilde is an architect specialized in urban design. She develops bicycle infrastructure and facilities both in public spaces and in buildings. The use of public space is at the heart of her work, integrating observations from her daily bicycling experience, started while studying in the Netherlands, where she did research on bicycle urbanism.
State Diploma of Architecture, Master at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse - Toulouse, France
Mauricio Suarez
Architect-urbanist
Mauricio’s passion for cycling started in Colombia, his country of birth, and slowly developed through his studies in architecture and urban planning. Through his multidisciplinary and multicultural career, Mauricio has worked on the design of architectural and urban projects in the United States and France. After joining Copenhagenize, he has used his experience to design and develop cycling infrastructure and facilities suitable for people of all ages and abilities in a variety of contexts.
Master in urban planning and development - Strategies, projects, mobilities in the city of tomorrow at Sorbonne University - Paris, France
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Houston - United States
Laure Verdier
Landscape architect
Laure is a graduate of the National School of Nature and Landscape Architecture in Blois and passionate about gardens and vegetation. Throughout various projects, she has developed expertise in the feasibility and design of both public and private spaces at different scales. At Copenhagenize, she uses her landscape architecture skills to integrate cycling infrastructure into pleasant public spaces that promote positive changes in urban quality. She uses cycling as her main mode of daily transportation.
National School of Nature and Landscape Architecture - Blois, France
Lorenz Siegel
Landscape architect
Lorenz is an experienced landscape architect and planner who brings a diverse set of visual and analytical skills to all bicycle urbanism projects. He coordinates many of the firm's visual content, seeking out fresh ways to communicate bicycle-as-transport to clients around the world.
Master of Landscape Architecture and Planning at BOKU - Vienna, Austria