Dr Juan Valle Robles has a PhD in Architecture & Urban Planning from European University of Madrid, a Masters degree in Architechture (M.Arch) from the European University of Madrid, and an MBA from ICADE Business School. He also has completed various certification courses, prominent ones “Management Public Policy: Sustainable Cities in a Globalized World” from Harvard University, MIT Metro Lab Initiative Certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and “Climate Change. After Paris What next” from London School of Economics.

Dr Juan Valle Robles currently works as a consultant in urban planning and urban development and has carried out consulting projects in countries on four continents: South America (Argentina, Chile, Brazil), Europe (Spain, France and Italy), Africa (Morocco, Kenya and Lesotho), Asia (Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh). He has experience working with multidisciplinary teams involving architects, urban planners, engineers, policy makers, economists, business planning and lawyers, to achieve the goals of the project and the client. As an expert in architecture and urban planning, he has worked on management and supervision projects of different scales, working with national, regional or local governments.

 Urban planning policy approach is beneficial when long term solutions are sought, that does not necessarily short term economic benefits but serve the society well on a longer term perspective. The challenge is to have regulations & public policies on a level where there is development (social, environmental and economic sustainability) towards the overall optimised solutions without hindering new innovative solutions. I would be part of a team work and organization which gives recommendations and guidelines for improving the regulations in national and local level city planning process to enable a more sustainable city urban planning environment.