Piero Roberto Remitti

Pier Roberto Remitti, Co-Managing Director of the GCoM Secretariat in Bruxelles since October 2020, is a senior policy adviser in the area of Sustainable Urban Development, Climate Action and City planning/management, with long-standing working experience, and a wide country coverage across EU, Balkans, Middle East (Syria, Turkey), SE Asia (Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka) and Africa (South Africa). Since 2017 he contributed significantly to the start and consolidation of the GCoM Regional branches in South and South East Asia. Piero holds a MSc in Regional and Urban Planning from the IUAV (Venice, Italy), and has now accumulated over the years a considerable track record in international cooperation projects and programmes, including: - 35 years working experience in designing, implementing and monitoring programmes, integrating sustainable development, climate action, urban development, environmental management and decentralization policies. - 20 years conducted at international level as Team Leader and/or Key Expert of EU funded projects for implementation of environmental/sustainable development/low carbon policies and standards at national, regional and urban/local level. - In-depth experience in participatory planning and policies formulation processes.