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MARTINA is the director of urban strategy company URBAN Silence and one of the expert professionals of UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme, providing technical assistance to Riyadh Municipality. Her work is centred where there is large scale change and need for fresh design thinking at the crossroads of investment, infrastructure planning and social well-being. She is also a long-standing active member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, and their Head of Delegation at COP26 and COP28. She has been pushing for a more ambitious engagement of the planning professions in climate action, advocating systemic change to prepare cities to future challenges either through professional work, outreach of the Society and through media channels in the UK.

In her professional practice, she works for international agencies, governments and cities in the UK, South Mediterranean and Arabic region, preparing programmes of change involving strategic spatial planning, improved governance and identification of key interventions that can have transformational impact.

MARTINA is the director of urban strategy company URBAN Silence and one of the expert professionals of UNDP, the United Nations Development Programme, providing technical assistance to Riyadh Municipality. Her work is centred where there is large scale change and need for fresh design thinking at the crossroads of investment, infrastructure planning and social well-being. She is also a long-standing active member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, and their Head of Delegation at COP26 and COP28. She has been pushing for a more ambitious engagement of the planning professions in climate action, advocating systemic change to prepare cities to future challenges either through professional work, outreach of the Society and through media channels in the UK.

In her professional practice, she works for international agencies, governments and cities in the UK, South…

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