Mateo Alexander

Mateo Alexander is a first-year student at Columbia University in the Master of Urban Planning program with a specific concentration on urban analytics. Mateo is originally from Rochester, New York, but currently resides in New York City. Mateo is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Individualized Study and Allendale Columbia School. Mateo is currently an intern at Urbanomics (Perkins Eastman Affiliate) of New York and &Access Retail of Washington, D.C.. Mateo was a former intern for the RIT Dubai Virtual Global Consulting Program, National Landing BID and Rochester City Council.Mateo has a professional background in public policy, urban planning, and urban analytics. Mateo is looking to pursue more opportunities to grow his network and better understand smart cities and urban analytics, urban futures and megatrends, behavioral economics and ontological design, new city and town international development, underrepresented minorities, and data creation in informal settlements. Mateo takes a strong interest in planning metropolitan and megaregion futures and designing products and services that will have paramount impacts in the constantly evolving urban environment. In the future, Mateo envisions himself as a professor, research center principal investigator, urban planning consulting owner, and a real estate firm owner.