Patricia Gimenez Franco Architect & Urbanist

Architect, Urbanist, and Expert Advisor to Cities and Governments

Patricia Gimenez Franco Architect & Urbanist

Architect, Urbanist, and Expert Advisor to Cities and Governments

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Architect and Senior Urbanist, specializing in Geography; 19 years in architecture; 16 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). She is an expert advisor to cities, governments, and projects. 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 & Design • Real Estate.

She has spent the last 10 years achieving a comprehensive and multi-scalar vision in different kind of projects: External Urban Advisor - World Bank (WB); Individual Consultant, Specialist in Urban Design - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Associated Expert - Cities Forum; Urban Advisor-European External Action Service (EEAS) Paraguay; 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) Paraguay; Architect - EU Paraguay 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, Vice-President of Latin-American Chapter of EMA; Jury Member in several national and international competitions.

  • Education
    • Architecture
    • Urbanism
    • Geography