Financing Housing Dreams in Peru with Seb Paredes Smith and Mar Layseca

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Mar Layesca is Chief Executive Officer of MUTUO, a consultancy agency based in Lima, Peru, and established in 2016 to foster collaboration projects between people in civil society and both public and private organisations to promote habitat prosperity. MUTUO works in sociocultural projects, social innovation, and policy design and analysis in areas such as Housing, Urbanism, Education and Sustainable Development.

Mar graduated from the Global Prosperity MSc at UCL Insitute for Global Prosperity in 2019, taking an unconventional path from architecture to designing socio-cultural projects in Perú.

Seb Paredes Smith is Chief Operating Officer of MUTUO. Seb started his journey of a PhD in Global Prosperity at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity in 2021, incorporating his interests and experiences in housing finance and promoting habitat prosperity.

MUTUO has worked in projects with many actors in Peru and across the globe. MUTUO has worked with architects, engineers, NGOs, associations of construction companies, the Ministry of Housing, Swisscontact, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank group, the metropolitan Municipality of Lima, Bernard van Leer, UNESCO and others.

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