Holiday Availability: All IES Abroad offices will be closed on Dec 24, Dec 25, Dec 31, and Jan 1 as we take some time to celebrate. During the weeks of 12/22 and 12/29, our team will be smaller, so responses may take longer than usual. Thanks for your understanding—and happy holidays!

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Liat Rogel

IES Abroad Milan Professor | Expert in Design for Social Innovation | Founder of HousingLab | Director of Impact Housing Foundation

Liat is a service designer and expert in social innovation, and she is passionate about creative processes and developing new tools for design thinking and innovative strategies towards sustainability. Liat coordinates and manages local and European projects to improve the urban lifestyle from an environmental and social point of view. She is currently the project manager for the Municipality of Milan of the Pilot action of the H2020 project Centrinno, promoting circular economy. As founder of HousingLab and the Director of the Impact Housing Foundation, she is facilitating and coaching processes of urban housing renewal and exploring how private investments may be used to generate more housing options. Liat holds a PhD in design from Politecnico di Milano and teaches social innovation In IES abroad Milan.