Since 2012 Emmanuel Moulin is leading URBACT, a European Territorial Cooperation Programme dedicated to the promotion of sustainable urban development through exchange and learning between cities. In this position he contributes actively to the European dialogue on urban issues and he is a core participant to the Urban Agenda for the EU. With post-graduate diplomas in Engineering as well as in Town and Country Planning, he has been working during the last 30 years from local to national and European levels on urban development in France and Germany.