Lisa Lavia

Managing Director, Noise Abatement Society

Lisa Lavia is managing director of UK NGO the Noise Abatement Society and is conducting doctoral research on soundscape, planning policy and wellbeing at The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Lisa actively participates in the development of international soundscape standards and is pioneering their practical implementation in urban planning through campaigning, outreach and research. Lisa is a member of the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) Working Group on Soundscape; a member of the British Standards Institution committees on Residential and Industrial Noise and Transportation Noise; and a member of the Institute of Acoustics and the Acoustical Society of America.