Bob Pell joined the Growth Lab as a Visiting Fellow in 2024. He is an urban planner with a career in forming, building and leading multidisciplinary firms and teams across five continents. He has worked in the UK in the public sector and then private consulting, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In 1999 he moved to the USA and for ten years he worked for AECOM, the largest publicly traded AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) firm, where he was the Director of Operations. In 2016, Bob joined Hatch, a Canadian international consulting firm, where he created a unique international team – Urban Solutions – a team of urban economists, planners, designers and policy analysts- in the USA, Canada, UK, South Africa and Australia.

In 2023 Bob was a Fellow in the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative where he worked on forming a coalition to work with cities and communities in developing countries that are tackling the issues of climate change, urbanization and economic growth opportunities. 

Bob has a degree in Politics and Economics from University of Southampton, UK and a Graduate Diploma in Town Planning from Oxford Brookes University, UK.