Jacinta McCann, FAILA, FASLA, LEED AP

Jacinta is the Executive Vice President of AECOM, and has worked for more than 30 years to enhance the quality of cities and communities around the globe. Originally from Sydney where she worked on large scale urban regeneration projects including the Sydney Olympics, Jacinta has continued to work on complex, integrated, design and planning projects such as Mission Bay in San Francisco and Nova Luz in Sao Paulo. Sustainability and landscape performance underpin Jacinta’s approach to design and more recently she has focused on the role of landscape in building resiliency in the face of sea level rise. Jacinta leads AECOM’s Design, Planning and Economics practices globally and is the Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF), and currently serves on the ULI global awards jury, the Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC) Design Review Board, and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) board. She was honored in 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 most influential business women in the Bay Area.