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Francesca Ferlicca is a PhD fellow in Regional Planning and Public Policy at the University of Venice. Her research interest lies in urban governance for the informal city, especially in the Latin American context, particularly in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was visiting PhD at Science Po, Paris and at the Department of Geografy (UBA). She is an urban planner graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Department of Urban Studies of University of Roma Tre, with a thesis regarding the role of Universities in urban and local development, with a specific focus on Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. During her 5 years professional experience she worked as an urban planner in Argentina, in the public sector at the Ministry of Environment and Public Space (Government of Buenos Aires City). She also experienced working as a consultant for the Laboratorio Urbano Digital at the think tanks for policy making Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC) and as a urban planning consultant for the masterplan of the Municipality of Hurlingam (Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area). She was assistant professor at the Urban Planning Chair of Professor Alfredo Garay (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires). Recently she organized an international urban planning workshop in Buenos Aires for the Science Po Urban School.