Marcelo Figueira, MEDes, RPP, MCIP

Canada Canada

Senior Planner at O2 Planning + Design

Real Estate/ Construction / Architecture

Marcelo initiated his career as an Engineer with a land development and municipal engineering firm in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but he smoothly trasitioned Planning. He has a Masters in Planning and a B.A. in Urban Studies from the University of Calgary, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Sao Paulo. Marcelo is also actively involved in professional planning initiatives in Canada and Alberta – he was a speaker at the CIP-PIBC Annual Conference – INFUSE Vancouver 2013 and at the 2011 Alberta Professional Planners Institute Planning (APPI) Annual Conference. He participated as a member of the APPI Journal Committee in 2009-2010 and regularly shares his planning views and experiences in blogs