Flávia Leite

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. I am also a researcher at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-Cidades) and a fellow at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brazil.

I am an urban policy researcher, with a particular emphasis on housing and urban development finance.

I hold a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Public and Urban Policy from The New School for Social Research, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

Beyond academia, I have more than a decade of experience working in public and private sector organizations on housing, land use, real estate, and local economic development in Brazil and the U.S. I was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil.