As a business economist, Luise Noring specializes in urban governance and finance. Much of this work is captured in City Solutions series addressing how to spur inclusive growth of deindustrialized harbors, finance city-wide infrastructure investments, enable inclusive cities through novel affordable and social housing models, and accumulate political and fiscal powers for municipalities vis-a-vis national governments, to name but a few.

The City Solutions series has evolved over several years of research focused on capturing and codifying unique institutional forms and finance mechanisms that are tried and tested over decades. In this way, the City Solutions hold high levels of institutional innovation, experimentation and adaptive learning, all of which enable skipping ahead of the learning curve for other cities willing to adopt and adapt the Solutions. The goal of the City Solutions is to bring depth and specificity to the analysis of institutional solutions, distilling enabling features and financial mechanisms, to enable large-scale adoption and adaptation.

Noring is an Assistant Professor and Research Director heading a team of researchers and project coordinators at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. During 2014-15, Noring worked as an EU commissioned policy expert advising on sustainable urbanization, re-naturing cities, and nature-based solutions. Since 2016, Noring’s company, City Facilitators, has provided specialist advice and guidance on urban growth, business development and urban finance mechanisms to predominately European public agencies and private corporations.