COLFUTURO Yearbook Selection 2026

Liliana Giraldo Arias Academic and Institutional Leader COLFUTURO 2014 Recipient. Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy); Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (United States); and a certificate in Urban and Rural Studies for Developing Countries from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Architect from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Martha Isabel Bonilla Escobar Director of the technical working group for the development of the land value capture policy Bogotá Metro COLFUTURO 2013 Recipient. Ph.D. candidate in Peripheries, Sustainability, and Revitalization of Urban Centers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain); holds a Master’s degree in Urban Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States) and a Master’s degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. Natalia Caicedo Llano Professor Metropolitan Technological University COLFUTURO 2009 Recipient. Ph.D. in Architecture from the Université Paris-Est (France), with research focused on environmentally conscious timber structures and curved surfaces in truss systems in Colombia; Master’s degree in Architecture from the Université Henri Poincaré (France), where she specialized in the applications of wood in construction and graduated with honors, and an architect who graduated with honors from Universidad de los Andes. SELECTION YEARBOOK 2026 31