Sascha trained as an architect and urbanist at the Architectural Association in London and in 2011 founded Citymart, a company today helping over 50 global cities to transform their communities by strengthening their innovation capacity and sharing inspiring solutions and methods. Prior to founding Citymart, Sascha co-founded Living Labs Global in 2003, a non-profit organization promoting service innovation in cities and Interlace-Invent in 2001, an advising on science & technology, socio-economic and development strategies in cities such as Barcelona and Shanghai, as well as the Government of Thailand. Sascha has lectured widely and co-authored two books on service innovation in cities, markets and new approaches to public procurement. Sascha is recognized as a social innovator and entrepreneur through an Ashoka Fellowship and by being a selected member of the Clinton Global Initiative and on the Advisory Board of the UN Global Compact Cities Programme.