Dr. Temilade Sesan is the Lagos City Manager for the African Cities Research Consortium, a programme of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office led by the University of Manchester and implemented by the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos. As City Manager, Temilade provides strategic direction to a team of expert academics and practitioners working to generate robust evidence for inclusive urban policies in a range of domains, including safety and security, housing, climate resilience and economic development. She brings her extensive experience in stakeholder engagement to bear on the role, coordinating dialogues with government, community and business partners to identify and implement actions geared toward inclusive urban reform. She has published extensively on pathways to co-creating urban development solutions with marginalised groups in reputable academic journals. She also teaches and supervises postgraduate students at the Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.