Petra (Stieninger) Hurtado, PhD, is the chief foresight and knowledge officer at the American Planning Association, where she leads APA’s foresight program and knowledge portfolio, including research, publications, educational content, and career services. Her areas of expertise and research include strategic foresight, futures literacy, urban futures and emerging technologies, urban sustainability, and environmental psychology. Before joining APA, she worked as an advisor, planner, and educator in the global sustainability arena. As an adjunct professor, she has taught courses on planning with foresight at the University of Maryland and on urban sustainability and environmental psychology at the Vienna University of Technology. She has presented as a keynote speaker at numerous conferences across the globe and guest lectured at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Virginia Tech, and others. She has a Ph.D. in urban planning from the Vienna University of Technology.