Jessica Bridger is an urbanist, consultant and journalist. She is based in Switzerland.
Her consultancy is focussed on strategy, project development and communications. She applies expertise in urbanism, sustainability and resilience, leveraging her broadly international network.
She has worked with international governmental organizations, large corporations and universities. Her clients include the United Nations, Schindler Group, Winkreative and the ETH Zurich.
She has led field studies, lectured and moderated for clients and institutions, including the United Nations (World Urban Forum), Harvard University, Cambridge University, Future Cities Laboratory Singapore (ETH/NUS), tech startups, urban developers, and others.
She holds a MLArch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a certificate in Global Business from Harvard Business School (online). Her Bachelor Degree is from Sarah Lawrence College. Bridger was the 2011/2012 Bakema Fellow of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI, now Het Nieuwe Instituut).
She is the author, with Christian Werthmann, of Metropolis Nonformal (2016), editor of Textbook by Kees Christiaanse (2018), and co-editor of The Global Schindler Award: Essays/Projects (editions 2015, 2017 & 2019), Landscape Architecture Europe (2015) and Research in Architecture (2012). She is also a professional journalist, working in print and radio, and serves as a contributing editor for Monocle Magazine.
Jessica is an avid skier and traveler.
Partial client and institutional affiliation list:
ETH Zurich, Zurich
European Roundtable for Industry, Brussels
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
Monocle Magazine, London
Pentagram, London
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
Schindler Group, Switzerland
Schindler Large Project Division, Shanghai
Technisches Universität Berlin, Fakultät VI Planen Bauen Umwelt, Berlin
Technisches Universität München, Institute for Advanced Studies, Munich
UN-Habitat, Nairobi/Global
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Global
United Nations, Habitat III Secretariat, Global
Winkreative, London