Tristan Laurent MOREL

Geographer-Urban Planner | Co-founder of GOCARLINA (R&D project)

Al Khobar, Eastern, Saudi Arabia

About

I graduated in urban planning in 2008, then I started to practice urban design and urban planing in some architecture companies in Vietnam. I got involved in Urban Planning studies from the fields of History, Geopolitics and Geography. My interest in heritage, architecture and ancient cultures is related to this academic training at Paris-IV - Sorbonne University. There I worked on various studies such as urban renewal in 20th district of Paris ; ecoquarters in France and Europe ; private urban heritage conservation in Tel Aviv, Israel. My first experience in the Middle East is also doubled by trips in SEA especially Vietnam, where I practiced for 8 years. I have brought there energy to promote logics of sustainable development in urban design project. My commitment in private companies, then at the decentralized cooperation office of IMV (Institut des Metiers de la Ville), shows my will to contribute to valorize France's experience in urban planning, through private or/and public cooperation actions. As a strong supporter of sustainability, I am currently interested in development policies, urban mobility, urban renovation, heritage conservation, strategic urban, regional and national planning.

Experience

  • Director of the Sharqia (Eastern) regional, metropolitan and local plans project at setec
    Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Delivery of the assessment reports, multiple large stakeholder engagement events, and delivery of the spatial strategy.

  • setec organisation (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Director of the Jazan Regional and Local Plans Project
      Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs

      Delivery of the Assessment report, large multiple stakeholder engagement events, and delivery of the strategic framework.

    • Territorial Strategies Project Manager
      Mar 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Urban Planner & Sustainable Mobility Specialist at Independent
    Sep 2013 - Feb 2025 · 11 yrs 6 mos

    Delivers expertise on urban planning, spatial planning, and sustainable mobility planning in emerging and developing economies.

  • Trainer in international urban development at Sorbonne Université
    Mar 2023 - Apr 2023 · 2 mos

    Institute for development studies of La Sorbonne University offers a Masters degree training course on international development cooperation. I teach thematic courses on urban mobility, sustainable city, cooperation projects, urban services, resilience, basics of urban planning, urban economics and governance.

  • Technical Advisor to the Secretariat of MobiliseYourCity Partnership at Espelia
    Feb 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

    As Technical Advisor in sustainable transport planning of the MobiliseYourCity Secretariat, I am in charge of methodology and capacity development to the benefit of Partner cities and States.