Wetmore Lecture - Carolina Chantrill (MUP '15)

The first speaker of the 2021-22 Wetmore Series, Department of Urban and Regional Planning alumnus Carolina Chantrill (MUP 2015), joined us virtually from Buenos Aires. Carolina joined Sustentar Civic Association (Argentina) as the lead of the sustainable mobility area. She is former Province Director of Urbanism in the Province Agency for Social and Urban Integration (OPISU) where she worked coordinating and supervising the work among interdisciplinary teams for the design and implementation of integral interventions in 8 informal settlements of the Greater Buenos Aires area. Carolina led the preparation and negotiation of two loan operations (USD 100 million each) with the World Bank and Inter-American Bank for financing interventions in those settlements. She has gained experience over more than 10 years working for the private, public and non-profit sectors including environmental management, pollution remediation, water and sanitation urban systems, solid waste management project, watershed planning and management, urban development projects, neighborhood upgrading, and integration initiatives, urban infrastructure, and urban technology innovation.