IFLA GEC WG - Global Education Coordination Working Group members
Rosalea Monacella
Chair of the IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group
Rosalea Monacella, Ph.D., holds a faculty position in the Landscape Architecture Department at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She is a registered landscape architect and has undertaken research on a number of cities around the world, generated urban masterplans for cities in China, the USA, South America, Europe, and Australia that explore design at the nexus of the urban and natural environments, and has been the recipient of a number of national and international awards and grants related to her practice-based research as co-founder of the OUTR Research Lab at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia. Rosalea's expertise is in transitioning the urban environment through careful indexing and shifting of dynamic resource flows that inform the landscape of contemporary cities. Her research combines complex urban issues and advanced digital modeling techniques for generating sustainable urban futures. For ten years, she has acted as chief editor of Kerb Journal, leading the journal to become a significant publication in the disciplinary panorama.
Angelo Paulo Mogul
Chargé d'affaires for Inter-Regional and Inter-Departmental Networking
Angelo Paulo Mogul is a licensed landscape architect and environmental planner based in the Philippines. He holds a Master’s degree in Tropical Landscape Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he received the Phillip Recto Award for Best Thesis. Currently, he is completing his Doctorate in Sustainability from the University of the Philippines Open University. He is Principal Landscape Architect at Land & Man Integrated Design and Assistant Professor III at Bulacan State University. His academic and professional work focuses on sustainable urban planning, particularly TOD - Transit Oriented Development. Mogul developed the TOD Suitability Index, which was presented at major conferences such as IFLA, EASTS, and ECLAS, and published in journals including Alam Cipta and The Journal of Tourism and Leisure Studies. He has consulted on projects for Okada Manila, SMDC, and DOST, and actively contributes to planning healthy urban communities. At Bulacan State University, he also participates in quality assurance and accreditation processes, supporting excellence in landscape architecture education.
Ed Wall
Member of the IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group
Ed Wall, Ph.D., is Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich, London, where he leads the landscape architecture and urbanism programmes. His research and teaching explore public space and landscape processes through the lens of spatial justice, bridging theory and practice in the field of design. He has held visiting professorships internationally, including appointments at Politecnico di Milano and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and in 2017 was the City of Vienna Visiting Professor at TU Wien. Ed earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and holds additional degrees in urban design and landscape architecture from institutions in New York and Manchester. In professional practice, he founded Project Studio as a platform for design research collaborations, with projects exhibited at venues such as the Van Alen Institute and the Royal Academy of Arts. He is a member of the British Landscape Institute and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at TU Wien.
Wanida Numsuk
Member of the IFLA Global Education Coordination Working Group
Wanida Numsuk, Ph.D., is a full-time lecturer in the Landscape Architecture Program at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield, UK, and holds professional degrees in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University. Wanida’s academic and professional pursuits center on urban waterways, heritage landscapes, landscape governance, and nature-based solutions in Thailand. Before joining academia, she gained substantial experience as a landscape designer, specializing in master planning and landscape design. Currently, she participates in national and international working groups focused on nature-based solutions for water management in Thailand, collaborating with Water Sensitive Cities Australia, and has consulted on Bangkok canal projects supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands. Her research appears in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Landscape Research, Sustainability, and Nakhara.