IFLA ExCO
Bruno Marques
IFLA President
Bruno Marques is a registered landscape architect and educator. He completed his Landscape Architecture studies at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and Berlin Technical University (Germany), followed by his PhD studies at the University of Otago (New Zealand).
Bruno has practiced in Germany, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, having an extensive portfolio of built projects.
During the past nine years at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he has developed a comprehensive research agenda to embrace the formulation of frameworks on landscape rehabilitation, cultural landscapes, place-making, and Indigenous community health and wellbeing.
He is currently the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation.
Marina Cervera
Interim IFLA Treasurer
Marina Cervera is a landscape architect and urban planner from Barcelona, Spain. She is the CEO of NABLABCN, Executive Director of the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona and part part-time teacher at UPC-BarcelonaTech.
Marina holds comprehensive dual professional qualifications in both landscape architecture and urbanism. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture at UPC-BarcelonaTech, followed by a Master's in Landscape Architecture in 2003 and a Master's in Urbanism Research in 2014. This integrated training across disciplines informs her approach to territorial and urban design, bridging scales from site-specific interventions to metropolitan planning.
Ruth Wanjiku Mwai
President IFLA Africa
p.africa@iflaworld.org
Ruth is a Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner with over 16 years of experience shaping landscapes in the built environment. Her professional journey has taken her across the vibrant landscapes of Africa, where she's left her mark on numerous infrastructure and building projects through a wide range of roles. Her expertise encompasses master planning, landscape restoration, landscape planning, environmental impact assessments, participatory planning, contract administration, project management, and landscape construction.
Based in Nairobi Kenya, Ruth leads the team at Muzuri Spaces a landscape architectuural firm providing landscape planning & design services, environmenta impact assemment and, landscape construction services. Her team endevours in crafting designs that seamlessly blend strutures and landscapes.
Rafael Dodera
President IFLA Americas
Rafael Dodera is a forest agronomy engineer, graduated from the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has served as the coordinator of the Landscape Disciplinary Group at the Facultad de Agronomía, UDELAR since 2017 and has coordinated the Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Design since 2013. Since 2012, he has been the professor responsible for courses such as Transversal Workshop, Landscape Interpretation, Bio-aesthetics and Landscape Perception, and Landscape Management. He has also held prominent roles at IFLA AR (International Federation of Landscape Architects – Americas region), serving as Chair of the Permanent Committee on Education and Academic Affairs since 2020, Secretary General from 2018 to 2020, and is currently the President of IFLA Americas.
Paul Chan
President IFLA Asia-Pacific
Paul is a practicing landscape architect with academic backgrounds in architecture, project management, law, and landscape architecture. He was director of Earthasia Limited, later joined the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) as the founding head of landscape architecture. In 2018 he joined Otherland Limited as a co-founder and director. Mr. Chan has taken up leadership on a wide range of landmark projects in Hong Kong and nearby regions covering landscape planning and design of the public realm, institutional, infrastructural, residential, and commercial projects.
Mr. Chan serves a number of professional bodies, public consultative bodies, and NGOs. He is the current President of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) (2022 – 2026), member of the Northern Metropolis Advisory Committee (Sub-committee) on Planning, Land and Conservation, and a member of the WWF-HK Conservation Committee.
Indra Purs
President IFLA Europe
Indra is a landscape architect, entrepreneur, researcher. Indra was chair of the IFLA World Standing committee on Professional practice and policy representing IFLA World in events of the United Nation organisations.
As President and board member of the Latvian Association of Landscape Architects (LAAA), she has been member of advisory boards of several ministries of Latvia responsible for landscape, architecture, and construction. She has been the organiser of the Latvian Landscape Architecture Award, as well as jury member and researcher of the National architectural and construction awards.
Jala Makhzoumi
Interim President IFLA Middle East
Jala Makhzoumi is the 2021 laureate of the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award for her outstanding contribution to education and practice in landscape architecture. She is adjunct professor of landscape architecture, American University of Beirut.
Teaching and practicing in a region where landscape architecture is still an emerging profession brought many challenges, but it freed Jala to engender a definition of landscape architecture that was responsive to the ecological, socio-cultural and political context of the region. She applies this contextual landscape approach to the conservation of natural and cultural heritage, to framing human rights and citizenship and in her approach to postwar recovery.
Her publications include Ecological Landscape Design and Planning: The Mediterranean context, co-author Pungetti, The Right to Landscape, contesting landscape and human rights, co-editors Egoz and Pungetti, and Horizon 101, a collection of paintings and prose, reflections on landscape and identity.
Jala is recipient of the Tamayouz Award for women in architecture (2013), was profiled by the Aga Khan Women Architects (2014), received the lifetime achievement award of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (2019).
Kharbal Kaltho
Chair IFLA CER Committee
chair.cer@iflaworld.org
Kharbal James Kaltho is a Landscape Architect with a Master's in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria a BSc. In Architecture and an MSc Architecture in view. He has experience in Regional Landuse Planning, Landscape Ecology, and Landscape Spatial Analysis and Design. He has conducted several studies and publications in the areas of water conservation, Land Management, Biomass regeneration, watershed restoration, river basin management, and degraded landscape regeneration in semi-arid tropics. His work is centered on Smart solution-based design, Community/civic engagement, green disaster planning, and sustainable livelihood. He is also involved in the design and implementation of other Landscape projects.
He is the co-founder and CEO of Design Infinity Studios Ltd Landscape Architecture Firm, the immediate past Publicity Secretary of the Society of Landscape Architects of Nigeria (SLAN), a past Chair, IFLA Africa Communication and external relations committee (IFLA-Africa-CER), the past Secretary-General IFLA-Africa and Current Chair, IFLA Communication and external relations committee IFLA-CER.
Alessandro Martinelli
Chair IFLA EAA Committee
chair.eaa@iflaworld.org
Previously involved in research projects and didactic activities at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio and the International Institute of Architecture in Lugano Vico Morcote, the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture, the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal, the Archivio Cattaneo in Cernobbio, the Shih Chien University and the Huafan University in Taipei, Alessandro Martinelli, Ph.D., is Associate professor at the Department of Landscape architecture, the Chinese Culture University, Taipei.
He is also the editorial director of ListLab Publisher (listlab.eu), Chair of the IFLA Education & Academic Affairs Committee, and immediate past chair of the IFLA Asia Pacific Region Education & Academic Affairs Committee.
Finally, he works with BIAS Architects & Associates (biasarchitects.com) on design and curating projects concerning public space today.
Pamela Pagana
Interim Chair IFLA PPP Committee
With over 11 years of practice, Landscape Architect Pamela Sarunya Pagana has made significant contributions to advancing landscape architecture in the Philippines through design, advocacy, and professional leadership. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she currently serves as a Teaching Associate while pursuing her Master of Tropical Landscape Architecture (MTLA). In 2020, she co-founded Reverte, a landscape design and build company dedicated to sustainable and inclusive environments.
She has been an active member of the Philippine Association of Landscape Architects (PALA) since 2016, serving on its Board of Directors, leading the Professional Practice Committee, and holding office as National President in 2021.
Through her academic, professional, and international roles, Pamela continues to shape the discipline of landscape architecture, fostering collaboration, sustainability, and cultural integrity.