Agile City Partners is more than four decades of leadership experience in mobilizing change. We’ve worked with cities around the world.

We'll help your city strategize, ideate, design, convene, facilitate, implement, and manage events and programs that help your city pivot to sustainability and agility.

Benjamin de la Peña
Founder

Benjie has 20+ years of experience in urban planning, transportation, change management, and innovation.

Benjie is the CEO of the Shared-Use Mobility Center; he chairs the Global Partnership for Informal Transportation; writes and curates Makeshift Mobility, a fortnightly newsletter covering innovations in informal transportation; and, serves on the US Advisory Committee of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

He served as the first-ever Chief of Strategy and Innovation for the Seattle Department of Transportation where he was working to prepare the agency and the city for institutional and technological change. He introduced agile methods to the agency and initiated the department’s lean transformation. The transformation effort was focused on empowerment and the goal was to make innovation—the drive for continuous improvement—part of the organization’s DNA.

Benjie and his team drafted the city’s Transportation Information Infrastructure Plan. He also led the development of Seattle’s New Mobility Playbook. He initiated the first-ever city-wide Public Life Study to measure vibrancy and to understand how people use the right-of-way as public space.

Benjie’s worked on urban development issues that cover technology, transportation, and informality. His ideas have been featured in Citylab, Atlantic Cities, Next City, FutureEverything, and TED City 2.0.

Benjie served on the boards of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, Project for Public Spaces, and the Gehl Institute, and on the advisory committee for the Roddenberry Prize. He served on the advisory committees for L.A.’s Transportation Technology Strategy, the Mobiprize, and Cooper Hewitt Museum’s The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility and Design with the Other 90%: Cities.

Julia Nebrija
Co-founder/Director

The Transformative Urban Mobilty Initiative (TUMI) and Women Mobilize Women named Julia Nebrija in their 2021 list of Remarkable Women in Transportation.

Julia has 10+ years of leadership experience advancing urban development agendas in the Philippines across grass roots, government, and international organizations.

She worked as an urban specialist with the World Bank before assuming executive positions serving as the Assistant General Manager of Operations for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Program Manager in the Office of the Secretary for the Philippines Department of Budget and Management, and most recently, as Chief Operating Officer of the Philippine Japan Initiative for Clark.

She specializes in conceptualizing transformative initiatives through participatory methods and executing with results by building public private partnerships. She speaks regularly as a resource person on placemaking and inclusive mobility. Her articles have been featured in international and local outlets including Design Anthology, CNN Style, Domus, Esquire, and BluPrint.

Andrea San Gil León
Co-founder/Director

The Transformative Urban Mobilty Initiative (TUMI) and Women Mobilize Women named Andrea San Gil-León one of the Remarkable Feminist Voices in Transportation in 2023. In 2021, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, named Andrea one of Latin America's important female figures working in the transport sector today.

Andrea has 10+ years working in the field of sustainability, the last 6 of those focusing on cities, and how they can become better, more sustainable, competitive, inclusive and resilient places. Andrea is passionate about reducing social vulnerability and increasing quality of life through city design and sustainable solutions. She helps cities and governments do so by designing multi-stakeholder and multi-sectorial engagement strategies to deliver high quality, impact-driven and innovative results.

Andrea has worked as an international consultant developing projects with organizations such as C40, ICLEI, The Nature Conservancy, IDB, UNEP, GIZ and PTB. She has also worked as a policy advisor to different ministries and local governments in projects related to sustainable development, climate, sustainable transport and planning. Andrea is the Founder and Chair of the Center for Urban Sustainability, an NGO based in Costa Rica, which aims to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable cities, especially in developing countries.

Andrea is a frequent speaker and lecturer on sustainable cities and sustainable mobility. She has participated as a course professor and in charge of syllabus design for universities such as University for International Cooperation (Costa Rica), University for Peace (Costa Rica), and University of Maryland (USA).