Kerri Farnsworth

Edited on 08/06/2023

Kerri Farnsworth

  • Portugal

  • English, French, Spanish
Availability :
Available for Ad-hoc expertise missions

Validated Expert info

Expert can perform Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:

  1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
  2. Thematic expertise:
    > Culture
    > Housing
    > Strategic urban planning

Summary

Kerri is a highly-experienced urban planning, development & regeneration expert.  She has over 30 years' experience in Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas in public, private and NGO sectors, and with municipalities, cities, metropolitan areas and national-level Government departments & agencies.  Her experience includes all aspects of urban development, regeneration and economic development, with a particular expertise in delivering complex initiatives, often in challenging & politically-sensitive environments.  Her expertise in taking major initiatives through their full lifecycle, from concept all the way through to active use, means she is also very skilled in advising on operational requirements, restructuring and internal capacity-building. 

She is a qualified spatial planner, urban designer and project manager, and her original training as a chartered surveyor in private property development & investment gives her a strong commercial acumen. 

Kerri's is also a retained advisor to the World Bank / DG-REGIO, a Design Review Expert for UK RIBA, Editorial Board member of ThinkHouse, Board Director at International Urban Development Association (INTA), and a member of Associação Portuguesa dos Urbanistas (ECTP-CEU) and Société Française des Urbanistes (ECTP-CEU).