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| Co-investigator Catalina Ortiz is Associate Professor and Co-Program Leader of the master in Building and Urban Design in Development in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago (as Fulbright scholar), a Master’s in Urban and Regional Studies and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the National University of Colombia. Her professional experience includes teaching, research and consultancy linked to international organizations, national and local governments around comparative urbanism, urban projects and strategic spatial planning issues in Latin America and South East Asia. Before joining UCL, she worked for the National University of Colombia (Medellin), where she was Director of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture. She has been visiting fellow at the Latin Lab, GSAPP, Columbia University and at DUSP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she has worked as senior consultant in urban development for the Inter- American Bank, the Cities Alliance Program, and the Informal City Requalification Foundation (ReCI). |