Chief Program Officer
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Enrique R. Silva is chief program officer (CPO) at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He leads the development of the institute’s overall strategic program and coordinates workplans and strategies across the institute’s impact areas and centers. As CPO, Silva oversees a staff of 47 and co-leads the institute’s annual planning and budgeting process. Silva is also responsible for identifying and overseeing new initiatives that leverage the Lincoln Institute’s resources and expand its presence globally. In addition, he leads the institute’s programs in Africa, co-directs the institute’s master’s degree program in land policy and sustainable development with Spain’s National University of Distance Education, and assists in the development and management of projects on land policy and urbanization in Latin America. Silva collaborates on the development and management of initiatives that focus on a range of themes, from land-based fiscal instruments to the fiscal and land policy dimensions of large-scale urban projects to planning regimes and climate change adaptation. Silva teaches courses on land policy, as well as urban governance and the politics of planning, at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Prior to his arrival at the Lincoln Institute, Silva was an assistant professor of city planning and the program coordinator for the graduate programs in city planning and urban affairs at Boston University. Silva holds a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in planning from the University of Toronto, and a BA in political science from Columbia University.