Patricio Zambrano Barragán

Patricio Zambrano Barragán

Patricio Zambrano-Barragán was a Housing and Urban Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He currently led urban development projects throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including housing policy and finance projects; resilient urban infrastructure; and geospatial and civic data analytics. Prior to joining the IDB, he led research on territorial management and climate-ready infrastructure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Patricio has worked with the Office of the Deputy Mayor in Quito, Ecuador; with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) on distressed asset financing; and as a management consultant with New York-based Katzenbach Partners. Patricio is a doctoral candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a Master's in City and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.