Salvatore Fundarò is an Italian urban planner and designer with more than 20 years of experience in architecture, urban planning and design, developed both in the public and private sector. Graduated as Architect and Urban Planner at Palermo University (Italy), he continued his studies in Barcelona at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain).

He has worked in the past as project leader in the private sector in architectural and urban planning agencies developing architecture and urban planning and design projects in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.

He has also developed professional career in local government, being urban planner for the city’s planning agency in one of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area municipalities.

He is since 2013 working at UN-Habitat HQ in Nairobi, in the Planning Finance and Economy Section, being project manager and coordinator in many urban planning projects in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.