William Valletta
Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Bill is an attorney and urban planner, currently under contract to the US government's Millennium Challenge Corporation. A graduate of Georgetown University, University of Connecticut School of Law and Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning (MSUP), Bill was a New York City administrator for sixteen years. He served as counsel to the Board of Standards and Appeals from 1981-87 and as General Counsel of the New York City Planning Department and Commission from 1987-94. Since then Bill has been an international consultant on matters of land reform, real property privatization, urban development and "zoning" regulatory reform, working on a series of projects of USAID, the World Bank and Asian Development Bank in the former Soviet states, the Balkans, China and West Africa. Bill has advised the legislative drafting committees for the 1994 Land Law of Lithuania and the 1998 Land Administration Law of China. He has provided comment on the 1998 Urban Development Code of the Russian Federation and the 2000 Law on Planning and Territorial Development of Ukraine. He has been advisor to the Ministry of Construction and Architecture of Ukraine, the Division of City Planning of Beijing (for the year 2000 Five Year Plan), the Municipal Council City Planning Committee of Saint Petersburg, the Planning and Construction Committees of Novgorod, Khabarovsk and Kazan, and the land registry services of Albania, Senegal and Benin.