Ana Pereira Roders is Professor of Heritage and Values at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology at TU Delft. Ana graduated as an Architect and obtained a Ph.D. in Building Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Roders worked as Visiting Professor at VU Amsterdam, KU Leuven and ULiege (Belgium), Durham University (UK), and Universidade Lúrio (Mozambique). Founding co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development (Emerald, UK). Since 2008, cooperates closely with UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Led the creation of global online platforms such as Protected Urban Planet and the Global Observatory on the Historic Urban Landscape.