Pietro Garau

Pietro Garau worked for more than twenty years with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, which he later helped develop into the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. There he was responsible for a number of research and policy documents, including the Centre's first Global Report on Human Settlements, the Global Shelter Strategy to the Year 2000 and the New Agenda for Human Settlements. In 2002-2005, with the UN Millennium Project's Task Force for Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, he co-authored the report "A Home in the City", which led to the Millennium Cities concept and the "Global Studio" initiative. Currently based in Rome with the Department of Territorial and Urban Planning of Sapienza Università di Roma (DIPTU), he lectures on urban policy at Sapienza's first Faculty of Architecture and directs the DIPTU's "Centro PVS" on Urban Research for the Developing Countries.