Boyd Cohen (born 1970) is an urban and climate strategist working in the area of sustainable development and smart cities. Currently he is Dean of Research at EADA Business School and co-founder of IoMob. Cohen received a PhD in Strategy & Entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado (2001). Along with Hunter Lovins, he co-authored Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change in 2011. In recent years, Cohen has become most recognized for his work in smart cities, beginning with his Smart Cities Wheel framework and associated annual rankings of smart cities. In 2016, he published his second book, The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, followed by the publication of his 3rd book, Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship in 2017. Background Education Cohen obtained his undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior from Miami University in 1993. He completed his master's degree in Human Resources from the University of South Carolina. His final semester was spent at the Copenhagen Business School. After working for three years with Accenture in the U.S., Cohen began his PhD studies in strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado (Boulder). Academic career After obtaining his PhD at the University of Colorado, Cohen’s first academic position was at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Later he went to the University of Victoria in Canada from 2002-2006. While there he also was a visiting professor at INCAE. He later joined Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and also served as an adjunct at the University of British Columbia. Since then Cohen has been on the faculty at business schools in Argentina, Chile and Barcelona, Spain. Experience Cohen has been involved in several sustainable startups since the early 2000s. After obtaining his LEED Accredited Professional status in Canada he worked as an independent sustainable building and neighborhood consultant followed by early involvement in the startup of Recollective, a green building consultancy based in Vancouver. He then co-founded Visible Strategies, a smart city software as a service solution focused on assisting cities transparently track and communicate their sustainability progress against long-term measurable objectives. Some of Visible Strategies clients including Live Earth; Beaverton, Oregon; Marin County, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. He then founded a mobile app company, 3rdWhale which focused on developing smartphone apps for green consumers. Later he co-founded CO2IMPACT which developed energy efficiency and carbon reduction projects in Colombia and other developing countries. Cohen is co-founder and CEO of IoMob