Felipe Vera

Felipe Vera

Felipe Vera Sector Specialist from the Housing and Urban Development Division of the Inter-American Development Bank. He works in Chile and Argentina for programs to improve slums, urban revitalization of central areas, sustainable infrastructure, metropolitan governance and sustainable housing. Previously, he was an associate researcher and visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and director of the UAI Research Center for Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning in Chile. He is the author of the books' Kumbh Mela: Mapping The Efhemeral Mega City '(2014),' Andrea Branzi: Ten Recommendations for a New Athens Charter '(2015),' Rahul Mehrotra: Dissolving Thresholds' (2015) and 'Ephemeral Urbanism Cities in Constant Flux '(2016) "Housing: What's Coming?" (2018) "Building Metropolitan Governance: The Case of Chile" (2019), "Immigrating: Strengthening Destination Cities" (2020). He trained as an Architect and Urbanist at the University of Chile (2009) and has an MDeS in Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2013) and a Master in Real Estate Project Management from the University of Chile (2010). He has also received many Awards, including the Adolfo Ibáñez Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (2016), the Academic Committee Award at the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2015), various research grants, Fulbright, Chile Scholarships, ITEC Fellowship and the Mario Awards Record for the best student of undergraduate (2009) and Jaime Bendersky for the best designer (2009) at the University of Chile.