Carlos Morales-Schechinger
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Senior Expert, Urban Land Management & Policies
Email: c.morales@ihs.nl
Tel: +31 10 408 9831
Carlos Morales-Schechinger is a land policy expert at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University at Rotterdam, where he had been a visiting lecturer since 2004 and a full time senior expert since 2008. He was a faculty member of LILP (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) for 8 years and of UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) for 22 years. He graduated with honours as an Architect at UNAM, he did his MPhil on urban studies at the University of Edinburgh and specialized on local government financing at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published 22 papers in specialized books, journals and memoirs, and lectures extensively and gives conferences on land policies, land markets, fiscal issues, value capture instruments, urban financing, informal settlements and regularization in México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA. He has coordinated three month specializations on land policies and management in Rotterdam (with HIS and LILP), Panama City (LILP) and Bogota (LILP and Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and has organized distant education course (LILP) for the Spanish speaking students in Latin America, Europe and the USA on related topics. He held various posts in Mexican government institutions for almost 14 years dealing with land policies and management, amongst others the federal secretary for urban development, SEDESOL then SEDUE, form 1979 to 1986, as director of land policies and instruments dealing with informal settlements and land banking for urban development and housing for many cities. He was also director of cadastre and property tax policies for the treasury of GDF, Mexico City’s government, designing and managing an extensive fiscal reform on property taxes from 1989 to 1993. He has also held posts for 10 years in public and private banks, amongst others from 1987 to 1989 at BANOBRAS, the development bank for local governments, as deputy manager for urban projects dealing with financing the modernization of cadastral systems and property taxes in various municipalities. He was also deputy director of Banco Mexicano and Banco Santander where he managed property valuation, housing mortgages, loans for large urban developments and housing estates from 1993 to 1997 and at NAFIN, the development bank for economic activities, dealing with property commercialization and administration from 1998 to 2000.
