I have been involved in issues related to urban renewal, upgrading and conservation since my university studies and within the frame of professional activity as architect/town planner and international consultant, as well as within the frame of applied and more theoretical research work. My current activity as freelance senior international consultant comprises the conception and development of technical assistance project proposals for urban regeneration masterplans with significant aspects of integrated urban renewal and redevelopment of downtown areas. I provided consultancy to municipal authorities focused on physical urban conservation and rehabilitation, comprising the implementation of intensive exchange and sharing of experience with practitioners from several EU MS. My role included hands-on survey fieldwork and scientific/historic and morphological research and the coordination with other experts. I provided thematic input on a pilot project aimed at promoting integrated sustainable urban development and regeneration with planned physical interventions on the built urban structure to improve the quality of life in a particularly deprived urban area. I implemented monitoring and technical assistance to a project dealing with urban renewal in the Mediterranean countries, aimed at strengthening urban rehabilitation and maintenance as factors of sustainable development (social, economic and environmental). I developed joint activities within interregional territorial cooperation and urban networks focusing on the sharing of experiences and of good practices in integrated urban sustainable policies and promoting innovative instruments for territorial cooperation.

My background as an architect has given me a particular sensitivity/interest for issues related to arts and creativity. In my profession I have developed/monitored projects in the field of culture, cultural heritage, cultural goods, intercultural dialogue, cultural policy reform, international cultural relations, etc. I am in the Culture Programme Coordinator reserve list at EACEA. As UNESCO consultant, I planned and managed operational programmes in the Culture Sector. I provided support to international safeguarding campaigns and World Heritage. As technical adviser for a project on illicit trafficking of cultural goods in Romania, I worked in close contact with institutions in charge of culture supporting the development of more effective cooperation. I promoted sharing of knowledge in specific EU legislation in the cultural sector by strengthening the capacity of beneficiary institution for the transposition and enforcement of the Community acquis. I co-drafted the Strategy for the development of Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Heritage: this policy document, based on good practices and needs from local practitioners and policy-makers, was agreed with the directors in charge from the ministries of culture from 10 partner countries and it became a widely used policy for the development of subsequent action in the region. I carried out a fact-finding mission in Croatia aimed at implementing a future World Bank project on the urban regeneration of the historic centre of the city of Split. For the city of Vienna, I developed a transnational project on integrated sustainable urban conservation management with European partner cities from 4 EU MS. I provided a thematic contribution to a publication in the field of art history: drawing of the analytical index of names and places for the new edition of the Dictionary of Florentine Painters from the 13th to the 17th Centuries, by Sir Dominic Colnaghi.