Global Urban Development
Barcelona, Beijing, Curitiba, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London,
Panama City, Porto Alegre, Prague,
Rehoboth, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney,
Toronto, and Washington, DC
Board
of Directors
Chairman:
Marc Weiss, CEO, Global Urban
Development,
Vice Chair: Nicky Gavron,
Assembly Member, Greater London Authority, London, UK
Vice Chair: Jane
Katz, Director of International Affairs and
Programs, Habitat for Humanity International, Washington, DC
Vice Chair:
Jaime Lerner, Chairman, Jaime Lerner
Associated Architects, and President, Jaime Lerner Institute, Curitiba, Brazil
Secretary-Treasurer: Nancy Sedmak-Weiss,
President, Metropolitan Economic Strategy LLC, Rehoboth, DE
President: James
Nixon, Chairman, Sustainable Systems, Oakland,
CA
Vice President: Elaine Yamashita Rodriguez, Senior Fellow, Global Urban Development, Los Angeles, CA
Habiba
Al Marashi, Chairperson,
Emirates Environmental Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Rosa
Alegria, Co-Chair, The Millennium Project, Brazil Node, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jobeda Ali,
Chair and CEO, Three Sisters Care, London, UK
Nefise Bazoglu,
Senior Fellow, Global Urban Development, Istanbul, Turkey
Lucelena Betancur, Director, Foundation Habitat Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Iman
Bibars, Vice President,
Ashoka Global, and Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World, Cairo, Egypt
Edward
Blakely, Professor of Urban Policy, University of
Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Claire Blanchard, Head, Global Advocacy, WWF International, New York, NY
Cid
Blanco Jr., Project
Director, Quanta Jaime Lerner Consortia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lawrence
Bloom, Secretary General, Be Earth Foundation,
and Chairman, Be Energy, London,
UK
Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley, CA
Marcus Coester, CEO, Aeromovel, Porto
Alegre, Brazil
Thais Corral, Director, Network for Human Development (REDEH), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Angela Danilevicz, Professor and Chair, Department of Production and Transportation Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Dianne
Dillon-Ridgley, Executive
Director, Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future, Iowa City, IA
Malika Djebli, Local Coordinator, Poverty Reduction
Strategy, Government of Morocco and United Nations Development Program (UNDP),
Marrakech, Morocco
Alain Durand-Lasserve, Senior Research
Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
Marlene Fernandes,
Senior Fellow, Global Urban Development, and former International Advisor,
Brazilian Institute for Municipal Administration (IBAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rachel
Fleishman, Head, Regional Advocacy and Sustainability
Communications, BASF,
Hong Kong, China
Neil Fraser, Principal, Urban Inc., Johannesburg, South Africa
Banning Garrett, Adjunct Professor, Singularity University,
Moffett Field, CA, and Senior Fellow, Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, Washington, DC
Luigi Fusco Girard,
Professor and Director, Department of Conservation of Cultural and
Environmental Heritage, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Emilio Haddad, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Julie
Childers Henry,
President, The Pulse Team, Sarasota, FL
Elliot
Hoffman, CEO, REV, San Francisco, CA
Kenneth Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, and Director, Herbert Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University, New York, NY
Bianca Jagger,
President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights
Foundation, London, UK
Paola Jiron, Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Housing, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
C. S. Kiang, Chairman, Sustainable
Development Technology Foundation, Beijing, China
Wilfried Kreisel, Global
Health and Environment Consultant, St. Genis-Pouilly,
France
Vinay
Lall, Director
General, Society for Development Studies, New Delhi, India
Claudia Laub, President, El Agora, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vivian Lin, Executive Associate Dean, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Rodrigo Loures,
Chairman and CEO, Nutrimental, Curitiba, Brazil
Stella
Madrid, Intergovernmental and Community Affairs
Officer, Denver Housing Authority, Denver, CO
Tony Manwaring, Strategic
Partner, Re:Cap,
London, UK
Patricia McCarney, Professor of Political Science and Director, Global Cities Institute and Global City Indicators Facility, University of Toronto, and President & CEO, World Council on City Data (WCCD), Toronto, Canada
Luis Felipe Nascimento, Professor, School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Henrik Nolmark, Director, Volvo Research and
Educational Foundations, Stockholm, Sweden
Mary
Jane Ortega, Lecturer, Ateneo School of Government, Metro Manila,
Philippines, and Special Advisor, CITYNET, Seoul, South Korea
Neal Peirce,
Chairman, Citistates Group,
Washington, DC
Janice Perlman,
President, Mega-Cities Project,
Luiz Carlos Pinto da Silva Filho, Professor and Dean, School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Shelley
Poticha, Managing Director,
Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC
Tom
Roper, Project Director, Small Island States
Energy Initiative, Climate Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Donovan Rypkema, President, Heritage Strategies
International,
Nola-Kate Seymoar, Chair, Vancouver City Planning
Commission, Vancouver, Canada
Asad Shah,
Senior Fellow and Director, Global Think Tank Network, National University of
Science and Technology, Islamabad,
Pakistan
Miquel Sodupe,
former Director, Urban Consortium for Development of the Barcelona Metropolitan
Region, Barcelona, Spain
Ludek
Sykora, Vice Dean for
Foreign Relations and Geography Section, and Professor of Social Geography and
Regional Development, Faculty of Science,
Kaarin Taipale,
Board Member, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council,
Helsinki, Finland
Patrick
Wakely, Emeritus
Professor of Urban Development, University of London, former Director of the Development Planning Unit, University
College London, London, UK
Emiel Wegelin,
Director, UrbAct, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Michael Wegener, Partner, Spiekermann and Wegener Urban and
Regional Research,
Carol Willis, Director, Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY
Mark
Willis, Senior Policy
Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University,
New York, NY
David Wilmoth,
President, Learning Cities International, Sydney, Australia
Nicholas You, Executive Director, Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation, Guangzhou, China
Belinda Yuen,
Research Director, Lee Kuan Yew Center for
Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Robert Zdenek, Principal Investigator, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA