Project Head for GIZ Smart SUT project India; trained as full legal practitioner with the admission as a lawyer, many years of professional experience in consulting and management of development cooperation projects as advisor for Connective Cities and the C40 Cities Finance Facility, especially in the field of good governance; long-term professional experience in the field of urban development, in particular at the level of concrete implementation of infrastructure projects, e.g. the conversion of the former headquarters of the Western Group of Soviet Forces in Europe in Wünsdorf; long-term advisory activity as a lawyer specialized in the real estate sector. Jürgen Baumann was responsible for the conception of events and other offers of Connective Cities and for the cooperation with international partners in the region of South-Eastern Europe as well as for conception and advising in the development of funding concepts in the concrete implementation of urban projects through C40 CFF in India, Ecuador and Colombia.