Fernando Tulio Salva Rocha Franco

Dr. Fernando Túlio is an urban planner who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. at FAU-USP, a master's degree in public policy from FGV, and is an early childhood specialist at Harvard (USA). He is a lecturer and scientific researcher at the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, director of the ZeroCem Institute, senior advisor of the São Paulo's Department of the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB), and professor of the postgraduate course in Social Urbanism at Insper (Brazil). He was president of IAB São Paulo (2017-19 and 2020-22), awarded in 2019 by APCA in the Architecture category, and responsible for the São Paulo International Architecture Biennials (2017, 2019, and 2021). He was a recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2022-23) and a researcher at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (USA), the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC - Argentina), the Laboratory for the Right to the City and Public Space (LabCidade / FAU-USP) and the Laboratory for Fluvial Urban Infrastructures (Metrópole Fluvial / FAU-USP). He was a special advisor and deputy chief of staff of São Paulo's Secretariat for Urban Development (2013-16) while developing the 2014 city Master Plan awarded by UN-Habitat.

salvarochafranco(@)arch.ethz.ch