Luca Leone is an architect-planner with experience in developing and marketing geographic risk management systems for modelling natural and man-made hazards in the built environment.

He studied architecture at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in urban development planning at University College London. In the course of his postgraduate studies, he specialised in urban planning in disaster-prone regions and produced two dissertations, The Post-Earthquake Reconstruction of Friuli, Italy, and Urban Planning in Disaster-prone Areas: Case Study of Noto, Sicily.

He has worked for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS-Habitat), based in Nairobi, Kenya, in the field of urban management and municipal development, with projects in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America.

Upon his return to Cambridge in 1994, he joined CARtograph Limited, a CAR spin-off company specialising in the development of geographic risk management systems for the insurance and reinsurance industries. As marketing manager and sales executive for the international market, he contributed to the company's growth from a six-person start-up to the leading European company in its field.

He has been a director of CAR since 1999. His work at CAR has focused on developing the company's risk management business, both in terms of expanding the client base within traditional market sectors, such as the insurance industry, and diversifying into new areas, such as the exploitation of air photo archives to map the risk of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from World War II.