Małgorzata Barbara Havel is an assistant professor in the department of spatial planning and environmental sciences at Warsaw University of Technology. Havel has a master’s degree in architecture and urbanism (Poland) and a PhD in real estate economics (Finland). She completed a cross-school postdoctoral degree in the departments of land economy and architecture at the University of Cambridge. Her current research concerns transdisciplinary comparative approaches to planning systems and the economics of planning control.