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| Julio D. Dávila is Professor of Urban Policy and International Development and Director of the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, a research and postgraduate teaching department in University College London (UCL). He has over 30 years’ experience in over a dozen countries in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development (London and Buenos Aires), and at the Colombian Government’s National Planning Department. Much of his research work focuses on the role of local government in progressive social and political transformation in developing countries; the governance dimensions of urban and peri-urban infrastructure, especially public transport, and water & sanitation; the intersection between planning and urban informality; and the linkages between rapid urbanisation and health. Julio’s latest book is entitled ‘Urban Mobility and Poverty: Lessons from Medellin and Soacha, Colombia’. Julio is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. |