Naomi Carmon, incumbent of the Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Regional Planning, is a professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Recently, she has completed a tenure as President of Israel Sociological Society (ISS). In the past she served as chair of the Technion’s Graduate Program for Urban and Regional Planning and as head of the Technion’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies. She was appointed Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar in several universities in USA and Canada, including MIT (Cambridge MA), UCLA (Los Angeles CA) and UBC (Vancouver, British Columbia). Professor Carmon is an urban planner and a sociologist, a teacher, a researcher and a consultant. She gained her academic degrees in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion in Haifa and MIT in Cambridge MA. Her writings include books (in English and Hebrew) and more than 150 articles, chapters and other publications on social aspects of planning and on evaluation of urban and regional plans, with an emphasis on housing and urban regeneration, on quality of life of minorities and immigrants, and on water-sensitive urban planning. Her consulting work was commissioned by governmental ministries, municipalities, other public bodies and NGOs. She often serves on public-professional committees. Professor Carmon has traveled widely and has been invited to lecture and head seminars in universities in North America, Europe and Asia.