Summary Information of Dr. Maria Luisa Marsal Llacuna
Name
Dr. Maria Luisa Marsal Llacuna
Affiliation
Instituto Catalán de Energía, Barcelona, Spain
Topics
Digital City and Smart Growth Citizen Engagement and Smart Governance
Biography
Maria-Luisa Marsal Llacuna is an Architect (2001) with two Masters (2004, 2011) and two Doctorates
(2008, 2013) in the fields of urban planning and applied ICT. She worked for the government in the
UK and now in Catalunya, at Government’s of Catalonia Catalan Institute of energy. Before working
for public administrations, she spent fifteen years in the academia, in different research and
leadership roles in public universities. Her academic career includes the creation and direction of
world’s first official scientific master’s program in smart cities; several competitive and commercial
research projects in the domains of smart and sustainable cities; postdoc scholarships in Germany
(2006) and the USA (2011); a US patent on urban planning standards technology; and, the
publication as main author of about twenty papers in top peer-reviewed academic journals. She
served as UN Habitat III expert and she held two mandates as a chair at UN’s U4SSC initiative, with
her second term focused on exploring blockchain applications for cities. Her expertise on blockchain
for governments has awarded her with the leadership of the Barcelona Chapter at the Government
Blockchain Association (GBA) and participation in GBA’s leadership advisory committee
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