Hendricus Andy Simarmata is a certified urban and regional planner who is also on the teaching staff at Universitas Indonesia (UI), Jakarta. Having graduated from the Urban and Regional Planning Department of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 2001 and from UI in 2006, where he majored in urban studies, he is currently completing his doctoral studies on the phenomenology of planning in the Philosophy Department of the University of Bonn. Hendricus has been teaching and developing various areas of research related to planning and environmental change. He specializes on spatial planning, urban environmental planning, climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and community development. Hendricus has over twelve years of experience of working in different regions of Indonesia, and he has worked with the Indonesian government and with international organizations such as UN-Habitat, USAID, the UK’s Department for International Development, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI). He has received various awards, including a doctoral scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Culture (2011–14), a research grant from START (2012), and training workshop grants from Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) (2014), Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University Manchester (2013), and the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project at START (2011 and 2009). He is also an active member of EAROPH (Eastern Regional Organization for Planning and Human Settlements), RSA (Regional Studies Association), and IAP (Indonesian Association of Urban and Regional Planners).