Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, AIA, LEED A.P. is an architect, planner and project manager with over 30 years of professional experience, over two decades of which was dedicated to the University of Massachusetts community. As Senior Campus Planner at UMass Amherst she is responsible for facilities and urban planning to support the comprehensive planning and design activities of the campus. She conducts master plan programming, system and project planning, space utilization studies, feasibility studies, sustainability and campus planning studies. She manages and conducts planning activities and feasibility studies for complex, multi-million-dollar projects, including research and academic facilities, financial analyses and forecasts, development of alternatives and recommendations of solutions. She develops facility programs, goals and objectives, technical requirements, and cost estimates including coordination of in-house staff and management of external consultants. Her work includes land use planning, landscape improvements, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, transportation and infrastructure systems. She provides expert consulting services to University clients and in-house professional staff on campus and facilities planning to support the campus development and master planning process.

Passionate about campus sustainability and heritage preservation, Pavlova-Gillham often lectures on the topic and helped author the first UMass Amherst Sustainability Plan and the Master Plan Sustainability chapter. She is a founding member of UMassBRUT - a campaign designed to educate and advocate for the conservation, renovation, and reuse of Brutalist architecture throughout the UMass higher education state-wide community.  Prior to coming to UMass Amherst she worked for design firms in New York City, most notably for John M.Y. Lee/Michael Timchula Associates, managing the design and construction of the Curtis/Balkan Factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, and as a member of the team that designed the Shenzhen City Center Urban Design and City Hall in Shenzhen, China.

Pavlova-Gillham has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She has served on the boards of the AIA MA Chapter, the AIA Western Massachusetts Chapter and the USGBC MA Chapter.  Currently she is on the board of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Council and on the AIA Public Architects Committee.