Additionally, she holds various diplomas in urban topics, including the Diploma in Socio-Legal Studies of Urban Land from the Lincoln Institute and the Institute for Social Research at UNAM, and the Diploma in Integrated Urban Interventions from the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM and CoRe.

Consultant in Urban Development specializing in territorial planning, participation, and housing, with a strong emphasis on rental housing. She is also a faculty member at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, teaches at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and is a columnist for the architecture magazine Arquine.

She is the coordinator of the Diploma in Socio-Legal Studies of Urban Land, an initiative by UNAM and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where she collaborates on various teaching and training projects related to land management and urban financing instruments. She has also been a consultant in the development of regulatory content on territorial planning for UN-Habitat, as well as for different levels of government in Mexico.

Expert in management and operations, specializing in vertical housing development, having led real estate operations at Be Grand and company management at Grupo Lar. Co-founder of Videal, a company focused on mid-income housing development.

He is the coordinator of the book “Tendencias del análisis de políticas públicas en México. La formación de mejores opciones instrumentales,” published by UNAM.

He has served as an evaluator for national transparency programs and personal data protection programs at INAI and has acted as a specialist reviewer for participatory budgeting urban projects in Mexico City. Currently, he is the Executive Secretary of the Public Policy and Program Monitoring Committee at the National Housing Council, where he has contributed to the development of diagnostic tools and recommendations for the current National Housing Policy. His research focuses on public policy analysis, urban politics in Mexico, and transparency and anti-corruption efforts.

She also taught Introduction to Design Techniques at the UBA in the chair of Architect Miguel Baudizzone. Her eponymous firm is dedicated to projects in single-family, collective, and commercial housing, as well as large-scale developments. She works on projects and constructions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

She was part of the architectural and urban research team at the Research and Postgraduate Secretariat of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Buenos Aires, focused on researching urban typologies of the city and developing proposals for the areas of La Boca and Barracas.

At the Plutal Foundation, she was part of the “Urban Strategies” research team in Buenos Aires, an entity in collaboration with Madrid through the FAU and Fundación Plural, within the cooperation program signed by the MCBA and the Community of Madrid. This entity was created for the development and research of architecture and urban planning. She develops projects in collaboration with architects Delfina Riverti and Franco Riccheri, and is also a partner of architect Mathias Klotz.

She has collaborated with various human rights organizations.

She has also been involved in disseminating content on human rights as a content creator on social media. Currently, she is the Director of the Human Rights Center at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey. She is the author of the book “El derecho a la vivienda en México: derechos homónimos” (Tirant lo blanch 2022) and “País sin techo” (Penguin Random House 2023).

He specializes in strategic project planning, regional urban planning, and urban and architectural design.

He gave the Federico Mariscal Chair at UNAM in 1994. In 1995, the work of Sánchez Arquitectos y Asociados was exhibited at the Museum of Architecture of the Fine Arts. He has been an Emeritus Academic of the National Academy of Architecture since 1999. He served as President of the Honor Board of the College of Architects and the Society of Mexican Architects of CDMX from 2012 to 2014.

He co-founded Sánchez Arquitectos y Asociados in 1973. Architect Sánchez has given numerous lectures and seminars at various universities both in Mexico and abroad. He has been awarded several honors for his professional work, including the Sir Robert Matthew Award from the International Union of Architects in 1987, for his role as advisor and in charge of projects in Zones 9 and 12 of the Housing Renewal Program following the 1985 earthquakes in Mexico City. In 2021, he received the Grand Career Award from CAM-SAM as a member of Sánchez Arquitectos y Asociados. In 2024, he published with Arquine the book Integración Latinoamericana: Conjunto Habitacional con 50 Años de Existir.

In the public sector, she has worked at all three levels of government.

She was the Undersecretary of Urban Development and Housing for the Government of Mexico (2019-2020). Previously, she coordinated Urban Projects for the Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing of Mexico City and public spaces for the Iztapalapa Borough.

She also served as Director of Cities for Mexico and Colombia at the World Resources Institute (WRI) and was an urban mobility advisor for the Inter-American Development Bank, where she co-authored various publications on active mobility, urban public transportation, and intelligent transportation systems.

She is an architect from Tec de Monterrey, where she currently teaches, and holds a Master’s in City Design and Social Sciences from the London School of Economics (CONACYT-CONCYTEQ scholarship). She was a Research Associate at the Urban and Regional Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Hubert Humphrey Fellow, and completed her professional affiliation with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. She is an urban cyclist and a promoter of gender equality in all areas of her life. She works towards achieving socio-territorial and environmental justice in our cities.

In recent years, she has repeatedly worked for the OECD as an expert to analyze in detail the housing policies of member or associated countries (notably Mexico, Colombia, and Morocco) and to formulate recommendations for their improvement. She has also collaborated with the Inter-American Development Bank to develop proposals for municipal housing programs in Mexico.

For over a decade, she has been working in Mexico, focusing on research and supporting public sector entities at both national and local levels on the issue of mass social housing policy and its associated problems. Since 2022, she has been coordinating a cooperation project between the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism of Chile and SEDATU to formulate public policy proposals on the regeneration of deteriorated housing complexes in both countries. She is the author of numerous publications and technical reports on housing policies and was the coordinator of the collective book Las políticas habitacionales en México: nuevos retos y perspectivas, published in Mexico in November 2023.

He is also a member of the Chaire ETI, a steering committee of associated researchers at the University of La Sorbonne with Prof. Carlos Moreno on the 15-Minute City, and has been a member of the scientific committee of the Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects, and Restorers of Italy since 2022.

He has been an advisor on planning and habitat for the Government of Antioquia since 2020 and a member of the UCLG-UBUNTU United Cities and Local Governments High-Level Advisory Group since 2019.

He was the Director of Planning for Medellín from 2012 to 2015 and served as the coordinator representative of Medellín for the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize in 2015-16, winning the award in 2015-16 and receiving a special mention in 2013-14. He recently authored the book Medellín: Urbanismo y Sociedad, published by Turner Libros, Mexico-Madrid, at the end of 2019.

He is a senior consultant for the World Bank. Between 2012 and 2015, as Director of Planning for Medellín, he led the formulation of the Territorial Planning Plan (POT) and a wide range of urban projects and competitions, including Parques del Río. He also served as Acting Mayor of Medellín in May 2013.

He was Acting Mayor of Medellín in May 2013, a member of the Government Council from 2012 to 2015, a permanent guest on the board of Grupo EPM, and served on the boards of Metro de Medellín, Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano (EDU), among others. Recently, from 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the boards of the Institute for the Development of Antioquia (IDEA) and the Housing Company of Antioquia (VIVA).

She led the development of projects and initiatives to improve quality and heritage value, directly impacting the enhancement of housing financed by the largest mortgage institution in Latin America. From 2013 to 2018, she actively participated in disaster response efforts (hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.), designing social and technical assistance strategies for affected populations. She has taught courses and workshops at national universities (such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, ITESM, Anáhuac University, among others) and international institutions (Technical University of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, and SciARC in the United States).

She has published, edited, and designed various works focused on the improvement and expansion of residential buildings, vertical housing projects, urban densification, self-produced and self-built housing, single-family housing initiatives, urban design, public space regeneration, and reconstruction, among others. She is currently a partner at Diez Candelas, a consultancy specializing in coordinating complex projects and designing public policies in Latin America related to housing, urban planning, and finance.

He continued his academic and research training and earned his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1991 with the thesis titled “Normativa y forma de la ciudad: la regulación de los tipos edificatorios de la ordenanza de Madrid,” supervised by Ramón López de Lucio. Since 2006, he has been a tenured professor at ETSAM, in the Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Management (DUyOT), coordinating the research group on new techniques in Architecture and City, and teaching in the Master’s programs in Urban and Territorial Planning and Architecture.

In addition to his dedication to teaching and research, Ezquiaga practices as a professional architect and urban planner at Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y Territorio, which he founded and directs, and has held executive positions in various administrations and institutions. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Dean of the Official College of Architects of Madrid.

Among the many projects undertaken by his firm, notable is the Madrid Centro project, which won the European Urban and Regional Planning Award in 2013 and was recognized at the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2012. This project covers an area including the districts of Arganzuela, Centro, Chamartín, Chamberí, Retiro, Salamanca, Tetuán (Madrid), and a part of the Moncloa-Aravaca district.

She has collaborated with Amnesty International and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), both based in Washington, DC (USA), and with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (France). Since 2003, she has been working with the International Coalition for Habitat, Office for Latin America (HIC-AL), based in Mexico City, where she is currently the coordinator.

María Silvia has taught courses and given lectures in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. In 2024, she supported a series of litigations related to water and housing in the country and helped establish the first housing rights clinic in Mexico in collaboration with the Ibero-American University.

She has participated in around thirty publications to date. The most recent is the article titled “Ahora se ve, ahora no se ve. La cuestión inquilinaria en la Ciudad de México,” co-authored with Dr. Antonio Azuela and Dr. Sandra Murillo, and published in volume 12 of the La década COVID en México. Los desafíos de la pandemia desde las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades, titled Ciudades mexicanas y condiciones de habitabilidad en tiempos de pandemia, published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2023.

She is currently part of the Advisory Group of the INFONAVIT Cultural Space and the Advisory Committee of the Head of Government of Mexico City (CDMX).

As a public official, he has participated at all three levels of government and has collaborated with international organizations such as UN-Habitat.

He is currently the General Director of the Institute of Planning and Democratic Foresight of Mexico City.

He studied at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).