The LOEB Fellowship

Maria-Mercedes Jaramillo Garcés is an architect and urban planner, a designer of territories with over 20 years of experience across Latin America and Europe. She served as Secretary of Planning for Bogotá (2021–2023), where she led the Bogotá Reverdece 2022–2035 Master Plan and the creation of the Bogotá–Cundinamarca Metropolitan Region, while also launching the Care System and the Monetary Transfers System in response to the social crisis following the pandemic. After her journey as Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Mason Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, she is founded LACPlan, an initiative that seeks to reconnect urban and rural territories in Latin America and the Caribbean to foster more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful futures.