Peter Jakubowski was born in 1967 in Dortmund and studied economics at the University of Münster with a focus on environmental economics. After conducting research at the Institute for Transportation Research in Münster and at the German Aerospace Centre in Cologne he left in the summer of 2000 for the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in Bonn. There he increasingly focused on urbanistics, both in his research and his political consulting, and published on a wide variety of urban affairs. He lives with his family in Düsseldorf.