Vice President

Mona Anis Serageldin is Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she has been a member of the faculty since 1985.  She is also the former Associate Director of the CUDS.  She has over 30 years of professional and academic experience and has worked in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America on projects sponsored by USAID, UNDP, UN-Habitat, the World Bank, and various foundations.  Dr. Serageldin  specializes in local development, strategic planning, social inclusion, policy and program assessment and financing capital improvements.  She has worked on: decentralization and participatory processes in urban planning and management; land tenure and infrastructure services; microcredit in housing and infrastructure; community based development; and revitalization of the historic urban fabric. She has developed approaches to urban planning and management that emphasize participation, strategy performance and capacity building.