Dutch, Female, Msc Human Geography, director and owner of Locality. She worked for Geo-ICT company ESRI, University of Utrecht, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency, research and technology organisation TNO and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has initiated several smart sustainable city projects with local authorities in the Netherlands, Norway, and across Europe, where ICT, modelling and geo-data support policy- and decision making on and investments in smart, local solutions for energy savings, sustainable mobility, closing of resource cycles and urban transformation. Since 2016, Judith leads the initiative “From Planning to Implementation and Replication” in the Action Cluster Integrated Planning, Policy and Regulation within the Smart Cities Marketplace, where she led the development of the Smart City Guidance Package. Judith is member of the Advisory Boards of Smart City Lighthouse project Smarter Together and EU Project ComeEasy, the latter synchronising European Energy Award certification instruments to other EU initiatives on energy and climate policies, to support municipalities. Besides, she is member of the Dutch Management Committee for COST Action 19126 on Positive Energy Districts European Network, and Dutch representative for International Energy Agency Annex 83, which focuses on charting the preconditions for creating Positive Energy Districts.