Patricia Gimenez Franco Email & Phone Number

Architect & Senior Urbanist, specializing in Geography; 20 years of experience in architecture; 17 years in urban planning and design, land management; whose interdisciplinary work focuses on her passion to create better places and cities for people. She has lived and worked in many countries (Paraguay, Italy, Spain; Portugal). Expert advisor to cities, governments, and projects. She is also a researcher and writer on architecture, urbanism, and geography issues. She is currently open to work and new opportunities.Throughout her career, she has worked both in the public and private sector: government, international and multilateral organizations, private sector business and civil society. She is passionate about multicultural and multidisciplinary environments. She has an international vocation in addition to passion for languages, which allows flexibility as well as geographical mobility, enabling the exchange of good practices and learning. Her profile combines three disciplines with a comprehensive vision and multi-scalar approaches, considering the territorial vocation of each location. Top skills: • Comprehensive Planning • Management • Urbanism • Urban Planning • Urban Design • Real Estate.Last 10 years achieving comprehensive multi-scalar vision, different kind of projects: Individual Consultant PR-L1152 – Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as General Coordinator IDB - UEP/MOPC ; External Urban Advisor - World Bank (WB); Individual Consultant PR-L1082 - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as Urban Coordinator IDB-UEP/MUVH; Associated Expert - Cities Forum; Urban Advisor-European External Action Service (EEAS) PY; Local Consultant, Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS); External Consultant - Inter- American Development Bank (IDB); Director of Territorial Planning - Ministry of Urbanism, Housing and Habitat (MUVH) ; Senior Urbanist - Technical Planning Secretariat (STP); Urban Advisor - European External Action Service (EEAS) PY; Architect - EU PY Delegation.She participated in Urban planning-design workshops- courses: IDB, WORLD BANK, WBG-OLC - KRHIS, LINCOLN INSTITUTE of LAND POLICY, EDU Medellín, UNICEF, Gehl-Architects, among others. She was Member of the Group of Experts in the process for HABITAT III as Delegate of the National Government of Paraguay in Ecuador; Active Member of the Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA), she was Paraguay's Country Representative, and Vice-President of Latin-American Chapter of EMA; Jury Member in several national and international competitions.

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