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MonaSerageldin is Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard where she has been a member of the faculty since 1985. She has over 30 years of professional and academic experience in the United States and abroad and has worked on projects sponsored by USAID, UNCHS/HABITAT, the World Bank, and various foundations in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa , Central Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Serageldin has developed new approaches to project design and implementation that rely on capacity building methods through training and technical assistance. Actively involved in national and international conferences, her ongoing research and numerous publications have dealt with issues of urban strategies for economic development, strategic planning, public/private partnerships, small business development and micro-credit, and community-based approaches to housing and economic development. E-mail Mona Serageldin.
 

John Driscoll, AICP, is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Assistant Director at CUDS. As an urban planner, he has developed research and capacity building programs that help regional and local authorities in their efforts to shape city development, planning and local economic development strategies; large-scale neighborhood regeneration programs and community based development projects. Working in collaboration with teams in different cities and universities, he has coordinated numerous urban programs, policy reviews and research studies. He has over 25 years of cross-regional experience the United States, the EU, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He served on the Board of Directors of a Boston Community Development Corporation where he was active in neighborhood redevelopment efforts. He lecturers and is a design critic in various courses and studios at the Graduate School of Design and is actively involved in designing and participating in professional education programs for urban planners and managers sponsored by the Open Society Institute’s Local Government Initiative, the World Bank Institute and the Central European University. He is currently working with three universities on the Ireland of Ireland to establish the International Centre for Local and Regional Development. E-mail John Driscoll.

YvesCabannes is Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Office of the United Nations Urban Management Programme.  Prior to this, he was coordinator of GRET-Urbano Brazil from 1988-1997 with responsibility for coordinating  GRET's Latin American urban programmes (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico).  He had been technical advisor to Cearah Preferia since its inception.  Dr Cabannes is also visiting professor at Louvain Catholic University.E-mail Yves Cabannes.  
 

Eduard Sekler is UNESCO consultant, member of the advisory commission of the Austrian Historic Monuments Office, and senior technical advisor of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust which he chaired 1990-1996. He has taught at the Vienna Technical University, at Washington University, St. Louis, and at the University of Florida at Gainesville as the first incumbent of the Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Chair in Architectural Preservation. He has published widely and his architectural work includes several housing schemes and the restoration of historic buildings in Austria. He has been awarded AIA Institute Honors and the Jean Tschumi Prize by the International Union of Architects.

Leland Cott is Adjunct Professor of Urban Design and teaches, advanced design studio options including Cuba III, El Malecon, Havana, Cuba II and the Cuba studio. Other past studios include: Salem, Massachusetts, Bronzeville III (Chicago), Bronzeville II, Bronzeville, Housing and Urbanism in Boston, Cott also teaches a seminar: The Design of Housing in the United States. 
Cott is a founding principal of Bruner/Cott & Associates in Cambridge, whose designs for housing, large-scale adaptive reuse projects, and buildings for colleges and universities have been widely published and have received over 35 local and national awards, including a P/A design award and a 2000 AIA Honor Award. He is a Fellow of the AIA and a former president of the Boston Society of Architects. Cott received his BArch from Pratt Institute and his MAUD from the GSD.
 

James Kostaras teaches in the core studio and offers seminars on urban planning and development. Kostaras is assistant director for economic development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). Trained as an architect and planner, he currently directs several major planning and development initiatives in Boston, including development of the air rights over the Massachusetts Turnpike and redevelopment of the city?s South End district. Recognized by the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, his redevelopment projects have received several national awards. His international experience includes serving as an architect with the U.S. Peace Corps and as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development in Morocco. Currently, he is a guest lecturer with the Center for Urban Development Studies and a faculty associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has lectured on the role of local government in urban development at universities and conferences in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Latin America. He received his BArch from RISD and his MAUD from the GSD.

David Jones is an international financial management specialist with special expertise in municipal and public utility finance. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Urban Development Studies. He has over thirty-five years of experience as practitioner, educator, and published author in financial management. A specialist in the financial and administrative management of local government and public utility companies, he has provided advice and guidance to central and local governments, development institutions, public utilities, and companies in over 40 countries. For seventeen years at the World Bank, he was a senior financial analyst and, subsequently, financial advisor in the public utilities, water supply, and urban development sectors. Since 1987, he has been consulting, teaching, and providing training services in financial management and institutional development. He has lectured at the Graduate School of Design in its Master in Urban Planning and International Training Programs and at the World Bank's Economic Development Institute. Mr. Jones has worked extensively in Asia, including India and China, as well as in Eastern and Central Europe, including Poland, Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Albania.

Daniel Tsai, BS (MIT), MS (Colombia), Mdes (Harvard), D.Des (Harvard). Daniel Tsai is the lead technical researcher for the development of a multimedia web-oriented database on the history of Jerusalem. He is directly involved with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Web authoring, graphical Java applications, relational databases, and modeling of architectural and historical information. Daniel is an information systems consultant, specializing in database applications, collaborative web systems and historical databases. Major academic projects include: the Jerusalem database, the Palladio Virtual Museum, StudioMIT, and the History of Recent Science on the Web. Financial information systems projects include: portfolio management, risk management, reconciliation, membership and personnel databases, accounting and cyclical reporting. E-mail Daniel Tsai.

Elda Solloso-Rodríguez B.A. in Sociology (Universidad Complutense of Madrid), Master in Urban Planning (Harvard). Elda is a Research Fellow actively involved in research activities at CUDS. She worked with Mona Serageldin on reports on Local Authority driven initiatives to improve the lives of slums dwellers, prepared for the UN Millennium Project (2003); Municipal Finance Conditions and Trends, prepared for the UN-Habitat Global Report on Human Settlements 2005; and a study on the impacts of migration and remittances in Latin America presented at the World Bank Urban Research Symposium (2003). She has also prepared background material and proposals for CUDS activities in Ireland, United States, Latin America and the GSD, and coordinated the preparation of the final proceedings of the UNESCO Conference "Protecting Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Western Hemisphere" organized by CUDS in December 2002. From 1998 to 2000, Elda studied regional planning in the University of Paris X - Nanterre (France). In 1999, she interned at the Public Agency for the Revitalization of the Casal Ventoso neighborhood in Lisbon, in charge of designing social inclusion programs for low income families. Her primary research interests are social inclusion issues in urban development and innovative approaches to urban planning and management. E-mail Elda Solloso.  

Shannon Bassett assists the Center in developing research projects and is working on the writing of a chapter on "Municipal Financing for Financing Shelter & Urban Development" to be included in the United Nations 2005 Global Report on Human Settlements and a paper on "Continuity in Change" for the International Federation for Housing and Planning World Congress being held in Oslo, Sept.2004. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Architecture and Urban Design at the GSD (MAUD '05), receiving her Bachelors of Architecture from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. (B.Arch. '98)-where she worked for the National Capital Commission (NCC).She has been practicing as an architect and teaching first year architectural design studios in the Boston area since 1999, conducting a project where students had to design a shelter for the homeless in Boston using found objects and recycled materials. In 1997, she conducted a research/design project in Ahmedabad, India where she looked at the issue of gender roles in a Gujurati village with respect to their manifestations in the built public and urban spaces there. Her primary research interests are sustainable development practices in South East Asia and China-including historical and cultural preservation of traditional urban fabrics in equilibrium with new development pressure, as well as inclusionary, participatory and strategic planning practices. E-mail Shannon Bassett.

Samir Abdulac is an Architect/Planner and Director of a CAUE, a regional agency that provides a combination of technical assistance services and information to French local authorities. He has 25 years of professional experience in the revitalization of historic urban centers and rural areas in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He has participated there in various capacities on projects with UNESCO, UNDP, the World Bank, Harvard University, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and central and local government organizations. He participated in the organization of several professional seminars and is the author of more than 50 published articles, papers and reports on architecture, heritage, planning and development. His ongoing work combines the enhancement of cultural heritage with the planning of community-based development and tourism. Selected cities where he has worked outside France include Abidjan, Algiers, Amman, Cairo, Damascus, Fez, Ghadames, Isfahan, Ismailiya, Jeddah, Muscat, Rabat, Sanaa, Tripoli and Tunis.    

Maria-Luisa F. Mansfield is professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Universidad Simón Bolivar in Caracas. In addition to her scholarly work on Islamic buildings and cities, she has participated as an expert consultant in conservation and restoration projects in traditional environments. Her work at the Center has focused on the regularization of informal settlements and the development of home-based economic activities. E-mail Maria Luisa F. Mansfield.
 

Keith Garner,  a Research Affiliate at the Center for Urban Development Studies, is a Lawyer and Urban Planner with degrees from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Juris Doctorate), the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Master in Urban Planning), and Stanford University (B.A. in Urban Studies). He has extensive experience with spatial and statistical modeling with various geographic information systems (GIS). He has participated in urban and regional planning projects in California, Massachusetts, Poland, and Morocco, and his present research interests include the impact of land use regulations on the built and natural environments and on the development process.
 

Liviu Ianasi is a Lecturer in the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Planning in Bucharest where he is teaching courses on urban planning, public administration and urban legislation. As the former Director of the Urban Planning Division at the Ministry of Public Works from 1991 to 1997, he participated in developing new initiatives and planning legislation. Prior to joining the Ministry, Mr. Ianasi was the Deputy Director of the Planning Division in Oradea County. He has participated in numerous commissions and working groups focusing on human settlement and urban planning issues in the ECE region. He is the Secretary of the Romanian Urban Planners Professional Association and a member of the Union of Architects of Romania.   

Barry Shaw,  a long-time participant in the Center's activities, is the former chief planner for London's Docklands. At present, he is the Director of the North Kent Architecture Center that provides support to local authorities and private sector groups for the planning, conservation, and regeneration in the Thames Gateway. He is also a member of the English Heritage's London Advisory Committee; a member of the Board of the Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust, a community led city housing initiative; and a member of the University of Greenwich Assembly. Mr. Shaw was recently a visiting design critic at the Graduate School of Design. His planning and urban design experience in the UK and overseas includes feasibility studies, design studies, infrastructure planning ,and public strategies. He recently completed the Cork Historic Center Action Plan, a model project selected by the European Commission to set new European standards for the regeneration of inner city areas.