Joan MacDonald (born Elizabeth Joan Mac Donald Maier in 1941) is a Chilean architect known for her work in housing and urban policy.
[1] In 1995 she became a consultant for the sustainable settlement commission of CEPAL until 2005.
Between 2003 and 2014 she was the president of SELAVIP, an organisation that worked providing popular housing for developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
[2] She was trained as an architect in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Católica de Cordoba (Argentina) in 2011.
In 2011 she received a prize for her academic career from the Chilean chartered institute of architects.