Silvia Vercher Pons is an architect and urban designer with fifteen years of international experience. As a Senior Associate at Perkins Eastman in New York, her design is distinguished by a balance of context, culture, and program, with sustainability and technology at the forefront. Silvia teaches at Pratt Institute. Her research on the future of cities has been presented at global summits such as Habitat III in Quito, WUF9 in Kuala Lumpur, and the UN Business Dialogue in Nairobi. Silvia serves as the US Representative of the NYC Architecture Biennial.