Manuel Sanchez-Ruiz is an Architect - Urban Designer with over 35 years of experience in large land-planning of urban scale projects both domestically and internationally. His experience includes the design and planning of large-scale urban development projects, new communities, mixed-use districts, industrial parks, campus plans, waterfronts, and urban regeneration projects particularly in the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Working in an interdisciplinary collaboration among economics, planning, landscape, architecture, and engineering.

From 2010 to 2024, he served as a Principal at AECOM, a global infrastructure firm. Prior to that, he held Principal roles at Sasaki Associates, Escala International, and Gomez & Sanchez Architects, as well as Senior Urban Designer for the Central Artery Project in Boston with Wallace, Floyd, Associates, Inc. In May 2024, he launched his own consulting firm, MAS Urban Design Consulting, LLC.