At LSE, Ricky Burdett teaches in the Executive MSc in Cities and other courses and co-directs the Urban Age programme. He is a member of the Mayor of London’s Cultural Leadership Board, former Council Member of the Royal College of Art and a Trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation. He was Director of the Venice International Architecture Biennale and Curator of the Global Cities Exhibition Tate Modern in London. He was a member of the UK Government Airport Commission (2012-15) and a member of UK Government’s Urban Task Force.

In 2014, Ricky Burdett was a Visiting Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University (2010-14). Alongside his academic activities, Burdett acts as a consultant to national and city governments, private companies, and philanthropic agencies.

He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the 2012 London Olympics and Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism, Mayor of London (2001-06). He is co-editor of Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (Phaidon, 2018), The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century (Sage, 2017), Living in the Endless City (Phaidon, 2011) and The Endless City (Phaidon, 2007). Ricky Burdett was appointed CBE in the 2017 New Year’s Honours list for services to urban design and planning and awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Art in 2019.

He was involved in the design competitions for Tate Modern, the Laban Centre, BBC projects in Broadcasting House, White City and Glasgow; the Royal Opera House Open-up project, NM Rothschild & Sons Headquarters in the City of London, the Golden Mede development at Waddesdon, the MAXXI Centre in Rome, the new Integrated transport system in Jeddah and the redevelopment of Penn Plaza in New York City.