Lorenzo Chelleri is the Director of the International Master in City Resilience Design and Management and Chair of the Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet) at the International University of Catalonia (UIC). With a background in urban and regional planning, environmental policy and urban geography, his research and teaching activities critically address the governance and planning processes related to urban resilience governance. Interested in the complex relationship between urban resilience and sustainability, he is particularly concerned about the nowadays normative and business-as-usual uncritical implementation of resilience in cities, and the emergence of unaccounted trade-offs among social, environmental or spatial&temporal aspects of urban resilience.

After having worked for the European Environment Agency (EEA) he developed case study research in Mexico, Bolivia, Morocco, Europe and Asia publishing more than 25 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, while supervising several PhD and master students from different universities. His mission is bridging research and practices, inspiring more sustainable and people-centered approaches in building and managing resilience.

In the 2^nd level Specializing Master's programme in Climate Change: adaptation and mitigation solutions he will lecture Climate-Resilient Cities and Communities in the course Climate Change Adaptation.