Washington Fajardo
Sector Sr Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Washington Fajardo is listed as Sector Sr Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank. B2DB records 6 sessions at 2 conferences in 2026, most recently Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 (November 2026). Roles on record: moderator 1. Speaks mainly at Government Administration events.
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- Sector: Government Administration
About
Washington Fajardo is an architect and urbanist. He coordinates Cities LAB at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Housing and Urban Development Division, working on institutional innovation, resilient urban design, and digital transformation and AI adoption in Latin American and Caribbean cities. He was Chief of Urban Planning of Rio de Janeiro and President of the Instituto Pereira Passos (2021-2022), and head of historic preservation at Rio City Hall (2009-2016). Loeb Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2019).
Sessions at 2 conferences
Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 3 November 2026 – 5 November 2026
- Building the Networks Behind Urban Innovation Speaker · 4 November 2026
- Financing Urban Innovation: Public-Private Capital for Impact Moderator · 4 November 2026
- Planning for Data Centers: Achieving Urban Integration, Density, and Decarbonisation Speaker · 4 November 2026
- People-Centred Smart Cities: Making AI Work for Cities and People Speaker · 3 November 2026
- Unlocking Land: Strategic Tools for Housing Delivery at Scale Speaker · 3 November 2026
HOWS Barcelona – Housing World Summit 2026 3 November 2026 – 5 November 2026
- Unlocking Land: Strategic Tools for Housing Delivery at Scale Speaker · 3 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Washington at events on B2DB.
- Washington Menezes Fajardo Coordinator, Sector Senior Specialist · IDB Lab 6 shared sessions
- Nyasha Harper-Michon Founder & Principal (Strategy, BD, Marketing & Comms, Public Speaking, Content Creation) · Archtivism 2 shared sessions
- Clotilde Tarditi Director · Real Estate Strategy and Housing Department 2 shared sessions
- Elisabet Cirici Director General of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Architecture · Government of Catalonia 2 shared sessions
- Julie Schneider Director, Housing and Revitalization Department · City of Detroit 2 shared sessions
- Juraj Mach Director of Public Housing Department · INBA 2 shared sessions
- Edlam Abera Yemeru Chief, Knowledge and Innovation Branch · UN-Habitat 1 shared session
- Cristina Bueti Counsellor on Virtual Worlds and AI · International Telecommunication Union 1 shared session
- Hélène Chartier Director of Urban Planning and Design at C40 · C40 Cities 1 shared session
- Daeho Choi Mayor · City of Anyang 1 shared session
- Antonio Vázquez Brust Data Expert · IDB Cities LAB 1 shared session
- Clarance Rupingena Strategic Advisor to CEO · City of Windhoek 1 shared session
and 9 more people
Others from Inter-American Development Bank
- Ilan Goldfajn President 5 sessions
- Jennifer Doherty-bigara Southern Cone Coordinator and Argentina Senior Specialist, Climate Change Solutions Division 1 session
- Luis Alberto Moreno Former President 1 session