Soledad Garcia Ferrari is Professor of Global Urbanism and Resilience and Dean International for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, where she leads strategic development around research, innovation and education. Professionally qualified in Architecture and Urbanism in Uruguay, Soledad has extensive expertise in sustainable urban planning in Latin American cities, with a focus on community-empowerment, participatory and co-creation processes, towards increasing resilience and adaptation to climate change across global cities. She leads action research focused on community-led climate change-related risk management in Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala https://www.globalurbancollaborative.org. She is currently working on the implementation of co-produced strategies for risk management, including mitigation and climate change adaptation actions in Medellin, incorporating nature-based solutions. In addition, Soledad is leading research with academics from Kyiv and Athens focused on post-crisis urban regeneration. Soledad has recently been appointed as Earth Champion in Sustainable Cities for the Edinburgh Earth Initiative. She is Co-Chair of the World Weather Research Programme - Urban-PREDICT Project and is UK representative for the International Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) of the International Science Council (ISC).