Guillermo Delgado is an architect with a focus on urban development and housing; and lecturer at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM).
He lived in Namibia for thirteen years, where he was part of the team that led the review of the national housing programs and the national housing policy. There, he was part of work teams, panels and committees of national projects on urbanization and housing. He has taught courses on research methods, urbanization in the African continent, and on housing. He has supervised master's and doctoral students.
Previously he was a senior lecturer at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), where he headed the Institute for Land, Livelihoods and Housing (ILLH); and before that a researcher at the Labor Resources and Research Institute (LaRRI), where he worked with the labor movement on issues of living conditions and informal economies.
Guillermo obtained his degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico City Campus; as well as a master's degree from the Berlage Institute (today The Berlage, at the Delft University of Technology), in the Netherlands; and his PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
He has worked on various research, consulting, advisory, and educational projects; focused on urbanization, land tenure, governance, housing, social protection, informal settlements, co-production/self-management, and alternative socio-spatial practices.
He has also been a consultant for international cooperation agencies, non-governmental organizations, for the private sector, as well as for development banks.
He is currently the president of the Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter of RedMX, an initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote synergies between Mexicans living abroad, as well as with the country.
Currently, I am working at the Coordination of the Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation. Before that, I worked as an EU Strategy Officer for FIIAPP (a Spanish development agency with a focus on technical cooperation) at the Brussels office and developing the Practitioners’ Network co-Presidency. Young professional with experience in international public administration, Latin America-EU development cooperation, youth and civic engagement, and peacebuilding. Cross-cultural education, team-oriented, communicative, and proactive professional. I am part of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations as a Fellow 2019, focusing on: “The Role of Women in Peacemaking and Conflict Prevention” (MENA region intercultural exchange fellowship). Master's in Diplomacy and International Relations at the Diplomatic School in 2019.
Focus 2030
A senior communications expert interested in sustainable development, human rights and international affairs; a lover of arts and culture and an active volunteer in my free time...my goal is to communicate messages in a clear and creative way no matter how difficult or complex the task.
I provide technical assistance and trainings in the area of communication, this includes the drafting and evaluation of communication strategies, the development of campaigns, concepts for internal communications, media outreach activities, social media management and other communication tools (such as publications/newsletters, image films/story-telling videos or websites).
Before becoming self-employed, I gained extensive work experience in Interreg/Cohesion Policy programmes and projects (INTERACT; INTERREG IIIC) and developed or managed a variety of other EU projects while running the Strasbourg office of ALDA, the European Association for Local Democracy and support programme of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities (Europe for Citizens, Cards/IPA, Media, Culture/Creative Europe among others). I have also been involved as journalist/producer in numerous international audiovisual projects and raised important amounts of funding to put them into practice.
