Salvatore Fundarò is urban planner and designer with more than 15 years of experience in urban planning projects, developed both in the public and private sector. He is actually one of the senior planners at UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning and Design Branch LAB, following several urban planning projects in different developing countries.
Graduated as Architect at Università degli Studi di Palermo, he continued his studies in Barcelona at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.
He has worked as project leader in many Spanish architectural and urban planning agencies, among others in Busquets Arquitectura y Urbanismo and Ana Coello Paisaje y Arquitectura, developing several architecture and urban planning projects in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
He has also developed professional career in local government, being for a short period of time urban designer at Gavà (Barcelona) City Council Planning Agency.