Edgar Pieterse is founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at UCT and holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy. He publishes different kinds of text, curates exhibitions, as well as difficult conversations about pressing urban problems. He is consulting editor for Cityscapes—an international occasional magazine/platform on urbanism in the Global South. He has published two books, ‘City Futures’ (Zed, 2008) and ‘New Urban Worlds’ (Polity, 2017, with AbdouMaliq Simone), as well as eight co-edited books, dealing with topics related to contemporary urbanism and place-making. Current research is focussed on a major exhibition—CompleXities, as well as exploratory work on the tenets of sustainable infrastructure systems in low-income contexts. This focus is tied into a definitional exploration of city-level innovation ecosystems in Africa.