Miguel Luiz Bucalem

Civil Engineer graduated by the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in 1984, Miguel Bucalem became Master In Engineering and started teaching at that institution in 1987. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, USA in 1992 and in 1997 became Full Professor of the Polytechnic School of the USP. He served as deputy head of the Department of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering at that university from 1998 to 2002, and as head of that department in 2006. Coordinated the graduate civil engineering programs up to Doctoral degree from 1994 to 1995. In 2007 and 2008 served as head of the Urban Planning Advisory Department of the Secretary of Planning of the City of São Paulo. In 2009 became Municipal Secretary of Urban Development, and completed the term in the end of 2012. Held the presidency of the Sao Paulo Urbanism, which is the municipal company dedicated to urbanism, from its creation in May 2010 to the end of 2012. In the period he served in the city administration he developed a comprehensive set of technical activities linked to urban development and management.Since 2013 upon the return to the activities at USP, has been developing activities in planning and management of cities, besides those in the area of structural engineering. Highlight for the coordination of the specialization course on planning and management of cities through the program of continuing education PECE of the School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo. Also for the participation between 2015 and 2016 as an invited specialist of the policy unit 7 Urban Economic Development Strategies of the Habitat of the United Nations in the context of the preparatory process for the United Nations Conference on Housing and Urban Development which in 2016 defined the New Urban Agenda for the next 20 years. Member from 2014-2017 of the International Committee fot the Fourth Regional Plan of New York. Since 2017 acts as Scientific Coordinator of the Research Support Center of the University of São Paulo USP Cidades. Since 2024 acts as leading researcher of a CCD Science Center for Development in partnership with the Secretary of State of Urban Development and Housing which is supported by FAPESP (the research funding agency of the State of São Paulo). The Center is named USP Cidades: Center for the sustainable development the State of São Paulo Cities and the research project Sustainable Growth Accommodation of State of São Paulo Cities. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)