Emilia Machedon spends most of her time thinking about how to help cities define and reach their goals towards a more sustainable future. Cities are complex social and technical systems where governance, environment, demography, economy and infrastructure are connected. Emilia's strength is seeing the big picture and making sense of complex information. Her main area of expertise is spatial planning and strategy, integrating solutions and evaluation frameworks across disciplines. She developed this skill through her seven years of experience as a multi-disciplinary team coordinator working at all scales from a plot urban design scheme to a regional planning framework.Emilia has a Masters in Urbanism from the Delft University of Technology where she researched the challenges of airport-driven urban development in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area context. Emilia has since worked with airport authorities around the world and helped define their vision and spatial strategies from an urban development and integration perspective.