Eduardo López Moreno, Director of Research and Capacity Building of UN-Habitat in the headquarters office of Nairobi, Kenya, assumes the interim direction of UN-Habitat Mexico and Cuba for a period of six months.
Eduardo López Moreno, is an architect from the University of Guadalajara with more than 25 years of academic and professional experience in the areas of urban development and housing policy, poverty reduction, governance and institutional analysis. His studies include a Doctorate in urban geography at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and a master's degree in urban sociology from the University Paris, Saint Denis, France.
Eduardo López Moreno has five books on issues related to social housing, land policies, urban development and urban history. His book "The Grid in the Development of the Hispano-American City" received the Jalisco Research Award and has been published in several editions. He has published more than 30 articles in national and international magazines on urban policies, urban history, poverty and housing financing.
He is also the Coordinator and principal author of the World Cities Report published by UN-Habitat (2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012). For UN-Habitat he also published the Report "Slums of the World: the Face of Urban Poverty in the New Millennium" (2003). Concluded the book Construction of more equitable cities: public policies for inclusion in Latin America co-edited by the CAF - development bank of Latin America - presented at the Urban World Forum in Medellin, Colombia (2014).
Eduardo was a member of the Scientific Panel on Urbanization at Columbia University. He is also a member of the Board of the "Global Urban Development" Program, Prague Institute and member of the Editorial Board of the International Magazine "Urban Space", published by IAARA, in Tehran, Iran and recently received the first place of blank photojournalism and black (2018) awarded by PDN, NY and London.
Eduardo López Moreno receives the office from Pablo Vaggione, who concludes his work as Coordinator of UN-Habitat for Mexico and Cuba on March 31, 2019.
With his leadership, commitment and capacity for innovation, UN-Habitat has developed the methodological approach "Value Chain of Sustainable Urbanization" as a support, successfully tested, to advance in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This allowed the Agency to promote evidence-based planning, highlighting the calculation of the Index of Prosperous Cities in 305 municipalities of Mexico, which won the Dubai Prize for Best Practices; the formulation of national and subnational urban policies, obtaining the Scroll of Honor of UN-Habitat for the work developed in Cuba; and assistance to municipalities in Mexico in the preparation of transformative projects through participatory and inclusive methods.
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