Professor Santiago Caprio is an architect, urban planner and researcher specialized in urban design with a focus on sustainability, quality of life and a holistic vision for problem solving. Caprio heads Ufficiis, an consulting firm specializing in architectural and urban problem solving. Caprio is an influential figure at PolisMaker, an academic programme of Politecnico di Milano. He is also the author of IQOL – Index of Quality of Life – as well as hundreds of designs, projects and plans for cities and governments in El Salvador, Switzerland, Italy, China, Argentina, and Thailand, among others.