Experience

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  Gobierno de Santiago

  • Head of Planning Department

    • Oct 2023 - Present

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  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  • School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies

  • Assistant Professor

    • Aug 2023 - Present
    • School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies

    Course "Governance, Conflict, and Citizenship"

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  The World Bank

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Consultant

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • London, United Kingdom

    Technical advice on three projects. The first one consists of a neighbourhood upgrading project as part of a US$100 million loan to the Housing and Urban Ministry of Ecuador, to be implemented in October 2023. The second project entails supporting the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in Chile in advancing their urban agenda called Cities 2050, aimed at strengthening the capacity of all cities within the country to design and implement long-term planning for sustainable and just cities. The third project consisted in supporting the Biobio regional government in Chile to address the sharp increase of households living in informal settlements.

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • London, United Kingdom and Santiago, Chile

  • Consultant

    • Mar 2022 - 2023
    • London, United Kingdom and Santiago, Chile

    Technical advice to the IDB Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD) team in Chile in preparing an agenda to strengthen the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (MINVU) of Chile through data collection, and participation in work meetings with HUD and MINVU.

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  Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Government of Chile

  • Project Researcher Specialist

    • Mar 2018 - Sep 2018

    Project “Rental Social Housing: International Comparative Analysis”. Granted to Center for Public Policy UC. Responsible for writing a report that analysed the evolution of the rental housing sector in five countries: France, the U.K., the U.S., the Netherlands, and Australia.

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  Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

  • United States
  • Think Tanks
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Member of the Researchers and Lecturers Staff

    • Jun 2010 - Sep 2017

    1. September 2017 – September 2018. PI of the research project “Changes in the Geography of Opportunity in the City of Santiago, Chile: Toward a More Inclusive City?” (London, UK)2. September 2015 – September 2016. PI of research project “Externalities of a repopulation policy in the municipal finance and urban land market dynamics: Empirical Evidence from the case of Santiago, Chile” (London, UK)3. September 2013 – September 2014. Co-PI of the research project “Daily mobility of households vulnerable to poverty in the city of Santiago, Chile” (Cambridge, MA, US)4. September 2011 - May 2012. Co-PI of the research project "Policies Instruments to Foster Residential Integration in Chile." (Santiago, Chile)5. September 2011 - May 2012. Co-PI of the research project "Inclusionary Housing in Chile." (Santiago, Chile)6. September 2010 - September 2011. PI of the research project "Use of Land Readjustment in the Reconstruction of Chile." (Santiago, Chile)7. March 2009 - January 2012. Co-PI of the research project "Evaluation of the Effects of the Location Subsidy Program on Land Value and Social Housing Location in Chile." (Santiago, Chile)8. September 2008 - September 2009. Co-PI of the research project “Living in Slums in Chile: A Path to a Formal House, a Way to Overcome Poverty or a Location Strategy to Deal with Vulnerability.” (Santiago, Chile)

  • Research Fellow

    • Jun 2013 - Sep 2014

    Project “Affordable Housing Location in Latin American Cities: Challenges and Policy Alternatives”. Responsible for preparing a comprehensive review and assessment of the possibilities of implementing Inclusionary Housing in the Latin American urban context as a means to house the population living in informal settlements. I also prepared a proposal on using social impact bonds in slum upgrading in Latin America.

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • London Area, United Kingdom

  • Consultant

    • Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
    • London Area, United Kingdom

    Project ESW Density and Equity: “Social Housing Siting Practices”. Responsible for writing a report analysing the scopes and limits of using Multi-Criteria Decision Methods (MCDM) as a tool for housing location.

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  The World Bank

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Consultant

    • Nov 2013 - Jun 2014
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Project "Urban Regeneration Public-Private Partnerships". Responsible for analyzing Santiago's process of urban regeneration and writing the book chapter on the case.

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  NORC

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Consultant

    • Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Impact and performance evaluation of the DFID-funded project “Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability”. Reviewer of eleven reports generated by research institutions in different countries in Latin America that analysed a wide range of policies implemented in their countries as part of the impact evaluation of the GDN/IDB project “Strengthening Institutions to Improve Public Expenditure Accountability.”

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  Harvard Kennedy School of Government

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

    Case Analysis and Introduction to Statistics

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  Global Development Network (GDN)

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Senior Advisor

    • Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Project on Urbanization in Asia and Latin America funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. http://www.gdn.int/Responsible for supervising a research project called "Urbanization processes and Urban Morphology in the Periphery of Capitalism: Sao Paulo, Jakarta, Hanoi and Belo Horizonte." developed by a team of scholars from Brazil, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

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  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

  • Chile
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant professor

    • Aug 2011 - May 2012

    School of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. Course "Sociology of Great Cities"

  • Co-founder and Director ProUrbana Program at Center of Public Policy

    • 2004 - 2012

    Responsible for starting this Program, which received an initial grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) to install the Program, whose objective is to improve the quality of the discussion about urban and land policies in Chile. Chair of the Board of the Program integrated by eighteen members from the academia, parliament, real estate developers, public servants), NGO's directors, among others. Responsible for more than twenty research projects funded by the LILP, World Bank, IADB, National Ministries (Housing and Urban Ministry, Social Development Ministry), and Ford Foundation, among others. Recruiter and manager of an annual budget of US$120,000 to US$150,000 to be assigned to applied research on housing and urban policies and design of public policy proposals. Supervisor of a team of two permanent researchers working in association with many different professors from a broad range of faculties within the university.

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  TECHO

  • Santiago, Chile

  • Director Center of Social Research

    • Mar 2002 - Aug 2004
    • Santiago, Chile

    Responsible for evaluating the Foundation's work and providing relevant information about slums to enable the Foundation to manage organised and updated information. Part of my role was to involve university students as research volunteers encouraging them to use their professional skills in thinking of possible solutions to informal settlements challenges and disseminating the work produced. I managed a team of three professionals and fifteen to twenty university student volunteers each semester (over 80 research volunteers during the whole period).