Frank D'hondt

Secretary General, ISOCARP

Frank D’hondt is founder and managing director of the Territorial Capital Institute. Frank is an independent free-lance territorial planning consultant, currently working with mainly United Nations agencies in different places around the world. Frank is long-standing member, ambassador and member of the board of the Journal of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners).



MSc. Frank D’hondt is an independent free-lance territorial planning consultant and has master’s degrees in urban Geography (1985) and Spatial Planning (1988), both obtained at Gent University in Belgium. He started as researcher at the Brussels Free University, worked 13 years on cross-border and transnational planning in Benelux/European Union, and founded and managed O2-planning-consultancy dealing with a large variety of spatial planning processes and projects. Since 2015 Frank is mainly working internationally with UN-Habitat, UNDP and UNOPS, in multiple countries including Belarus, Kosovo, Palestine, Nepal, Afghanistan, China, Kenya and the Caribbean. With UN-Habitat he co-published a first handbook on Participatory Visioning and a second handbook to implement the International Guidelines on Urban and Territorial Planning, an acknowledged instrument for the implementation of the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda, with guided applications and training in Latin America, Caribbean, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Asia. Frank is a founding member of a Belgian Association for Territories and Planning, was vice-president of the European Council of Spatial Planners and currently ambassador and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the International Society of City and Regional Planners.

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