Omar Nagati, an architect and urban planner, is the principal and co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform in Cairo. He studied at Cairo University, the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver and UC Berkeley with a specific focus on informal urbanism, and taught at a number of local and international universities. He is a former visiting professor at the University of Sheffield, and is a member of Global Council for Creative Economy, UK. His work at CLUSTER has been the recipient of a number of awards including Cairo Design Award and Curry Stone Design Price, representing Egypt in a number of architecture and urban biennales in Venice, Lisbon, and Seoul.