Franco Montalto

Franco Montalto

Philadelphia and Venice

Dr. Montalto is a licensed civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of research, planning, and design experience in the fields of ecological restoration, green infrastructure, and urban sustainability and resilience. He is a Professor at Drexel University, where he directs the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab, and is also the Founder and President of eDesign Dynamics LLC, an environmental consulting firm based in New York City, with an international portfolio of projects. His practice and research are applied, participatory, and interdisciplinary. He is a co-investigator on the Consortium for Climate Risks in the Urban Northeast, and co-chair of the Fifth NYC Panel on Climate Change.