Solangel Natali Fernandez Huanqui

Former Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation

Solangel Fernandez is an architect, urban planner and urban economist. She graduated with Excellence from the Peruvian National University of Engineering. As a scholar, she studied a MA in Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University and a MPhil in Land Economy at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.


In the United Kingdom, she worked at the urban design team of Building Design Partnership in London, participating in urban design projects and master plans in various cities in England, Europe and Asia. The largest masterplan she worked on was a 40 hectares, mixed used development at Kolkata, India.


Working for the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, she has been Urban Director of the Integral Projects at Huaycan in Ate and Jose Galvez-Nuevo Milenio in Villa Maria del Triunfo, both located over the hills at the borders of Lima. The solution involved neighbourhood upgrading and community participation. 


During 2014 she served as an Urban Specialist at the Metropolitan Development Plan of Lima and Callao 2035. After this experience, at 2020, she has been the Technical Coordinator of the Metropolitan Development Plan of Callao 2040. Callao is the most important Port City of Peru.


She has been Head of the Urban Planning Office of the Municipality of San Isidro since 2015, during four years, after that, she was appointed Director of the Urban Innovation Office at the Municipality of San Borja for a year and a half. In both institutions, her work involved developing the Urban Planning strategies and the formulation of projects in public spaces, including proposals for sustainable mobility.


She has been Minister of Housing, Sanitation and Construction of Peru during the Government of President Francisco Sagasti, which was a government focused on attending the pandemic. Under her direction, the Ministry of Housing achieved historical records in housing subsidies, attending 66000 families, she also reactivated 685 water and urban infrastructure projects, some of which were paralyzed for years. She has managed and directed more than 800 public investment infrastructure projects across Peru.


From 2010 to date, she works as a university professor at the San Ignacio de Loyola University. 

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