Chris Searles

Chris is an urban planner and a registered architect with extensive and progressively responsible experience in private architectural and planning practice in the United States as well as international planning and development positions. The international positions include housing planning and development in Swaziland, housing policy in Lesotho, urban planning and project management in South Africa, village development planning in Botswana, urban planning in Zambia, refugee assistance in Afghanistan, natural disaster reconstruction in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, urban planning in Amman and Aqaba, Jordan and urban planning in West Bank, Palestine. In the United States, he has performed project architect and management duties and responsibilities on a wide variety of architectural and site planning projects. Chris’s primary areas of interest are urban planning and policy, community planning, housing policy and development, and project management.