Carlos Martín , Brookings Institution

Carlos Martín is a Rubenstein Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and the incoming Director for the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, as well as a Nonresident Fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute.

Martín, a trained architect and construction engineer, connects the bricks and mortar of housing to its social outcomes. He studies physical housing quality, particularly in relation to climate and equity, and the policies and programs that define it. He has experience with independent research and formal evaluations for public, nonprofit, and philanthropic clients. Martín is leading research on housing strategies for climate adaptation and on climate-migrant receiving communities for the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program, and has led the multiyear global evaluation of the Rockefeller Foundation–pioneered 100 Resilient Cities.

Before Brookings and Urban, Martín was also assistant staff vice president at the National Association of Home Builders for Construction Codes and Standards, SRP professor for energy and the environment at Arizona State University's Del E. Webb School of Construction and School of Architecture, and coordinator for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing. Martín received his BSAD in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MEng and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University.