Emil holds a Master in Urbanism from the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya UPC, (Barcelona, Spain). He is an Architect from the UNPHU (Dominican Republic), and received the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship (Fullbright) certifying in the Special Program of Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. He has 20 years of experience in the field of urban planning and design as project manager for the private sector, public sector and multilateral agencies with an international scope. Between 2012 and 2015, he was in charge of the Urban Affairs area of URBE, an project executing unit of the Administrative Ministry of the Dominican Presidency, financed by the French Development Agency (AFD). He was co-founder of the Laboratorio de Arquitectura Dominicana (LAD), a curatorial team of the first Dominican pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. He has also been visiting critic at Columbia University's GSAPP and at AHO-The Oslo School of Architecture in Norway, also professor of Urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana and teaches in FUNGLODE's Masters in Sustainable Territorial Development together with the University of Salamanca. He is currently Director of Urban Development at CAF.