Dr. Mona Serageldin – Vice President
B.S. in Architecture (Cairo University), M.C.P. (Harvard), PhD (Harvard), AICP
Mona Serageldin is a Vice President of the Institute for International Urban Development. She retired in June 2008 from her position as Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where she had been a member of the faculty since 1985. She taught the course “Strategic Planning and Local Development” for 10 years, examining strategies for urban and regional development in a globalized economy where cities are the engines of growth.
Appointed to the Higher Council on Urban Planning and Urban Development in Egypt, Dr. Serageldin has over 35 years of professional experience working in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr. Serageldin specializes in local development, strategic planning, social inclusion, and policy and program assessment. She has worked on: decentralization and municipal finance of urban development; participatory processes in urban planning and management; land regularization and infrastructure services; migration patterns and the impacts of remittances on land and housing markets; microcredit in housing and infrastructure; community based development; and revitalization of the historic urban fabric.
Her approach to urban planning and management emphasizes participation, strategy, performance and capacity building. Dr. Serageldin has worked on projects sponsored by UNDP, UN-HABITAT, the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and various foundations. In 2004-2005 she served as one of the experts on the Millennium Project’s Task Force 8: Improving the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
Contact: serageldin@i2ud.org