Mathias Spaliviero

Dr. Mathias Spaliviero is an Environmental Scientist with a PhD in Geography, who has spent the last 20 years working for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in the African continent, dealing with more than 20 countries cumulatively. He has also been for over 10 years the Regional Office for Africa’s Focal Point for risk reduction, climate change, post-conflict and resilience. Before joining UN-Habitat, he was lecturer and researcher at the Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation Faculty (ITC) of Twente University in the Netherlands.

He is currently Senior Human Settlements Officer in the Regional Office for Africa, Portfolio Manager for over 15 active country programmes and coordinator for West Africa.

While working for the Agency, he has led the development of two key tools which are today widely used: the City Resilience Action Planning (CityRAP) Tool and the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) methodology – the latter being related to strategic spatial planning.