Alexis Kalagas works across urban strategy, research, design and development. Previously a foreign policy advisor with the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, he contributed to social design projects in Europe, Latin America, and Africa with the Zürich-based interdisciplinary practice Urban-Think Tank, and more recently in Australia as head of public programs at Molonglo. 

His work on housing, neighbourhoods and urban futures has been exhibited at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism and Oslo Architecture Triennale, and his writing on cities and urban innovation has been published widely, including in Harvard Design Magazine, MONU, Perspecta, AD, and the edited volumes Reactivate Athens: 101 Ideas, Mission Neighbourhood: (Re)forming Communities, Urban Design Lab Handbook, and Re-Living the City.

A Harvard GSD Richard Rogers Fellow and Future Architecture Fellow (EU), he has lectured and taught at institutions worldwide, including ETH Zürich, Rice University, the University of Michigan, Hanyang University, Monash University, and the University of Melbourne.