Alejandro Echeverri is an architect, urbanist and distinguished visiting professor in urbanism at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is co-founder and director of URBAM, a center for urban and environmental studies at EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia, and a Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb fellow. Previously, Echeverri was director of urban projects for the city of Medellín and director of EDU, the city’s urban development institute, where he led the city’s social urbanism strategy. Recipient of many honors, he has also been a design critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design, a lecturer at London School of Economics’ cities master’s program and a researcher and professor in the Barcelona Urban Lab of Catalonia Polytechnic University’s architecture school, among others. Echeverri’s work combines architecture, environmental urban-planning processes and social issues, especially in countries with weak political and institutional structures.