Rafael Tuts

Raf Tuts is Director of the Global Solutions Division of UN-Habitat, based at its Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. He is leading the development of normative guidelines, covering various dimensions of sustainable urbanization, which are implemented through global programmes and country projects. Since joining UN-Habitat in 1995, he held leadership positions in the Localising Agenda 21 Programme, the Training and Capacity Building Branch, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative, the Urban Planning and Design Branch, and the Programme Division. He coordinated UN-Habitat’s engagement in formulating the Sustainable Development Goals and led an agency-wide global effort to study city responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also led an internal Task Force for the preparation of the 2nd Session of the UN-Habitat Assembly. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor from his alma mater, the University of Leuven, Belgium.