Claudio is Professor in Urban Management and Regeneration, with a background in architecture and urban planning.  In the early stages of his career, he worked for 12 years as a planner in local and regional government in Brazil, acquiring considerable experience in urban governance and in the management of urban investment programmes for urban and regional development.  He has worked as an academic in the UK since the mid-1990s, first at Newcastle University and since 1999 at UCL. His interests have been in planning and the governance of the built environment, the provision and governance of public space, property development processes and urban regeneration policy.