Jose Ospina (MA Arch) is a founding member and Secretary of Carbery Housing Association, a community-based association preventing homelessness by purchasing properties at risk of repossession. He has also worked in as Project Manager and Consultant for a variety of projects over the past 30 years. His experience includes EU project development and management in eco-design, circular economy, energy efficiency and reuse and retrofitting of social housing and digital design and manufacture of computers.  He has also worked as Expert Evaluator for the European Commission on the energy, environmental and urban innovation funding programs for the past 9 years and has published one book and many papers and articles in academic journals and magazines.