Dr.Tokie Laotan-Brown works as a Heritage Architect and Cultural Economist with Merging Ecologies. Treasurer for the Executive Committee for the Association Critical Heritage Studies. An associate member of International Network of Traditional Building Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU). A Voting Member of the ISCCL (International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes), ICOMOS Africa working group and represents Nigeria and Ireland on ICOMOS-IFLA . A Joint PhD research in Economics and Techniques in the Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage with the University of Nova Gorica and Universita luav di Venezia in Italy.