Global Urban Development
Barcelona, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Prague, Rehoboth, San Francisco Bay Area, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, and Washington, DC

 

Board of Directors

 

Chairman: Marc Weiss, CEO, Global Urban Development, Washington, DC

President: James Nixon, President, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies LLC, Oakland, CA

Vice Chair: Nicky Gavron, Assembly Member, Greater London Authority, London, UK

Vice Chair: Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, London, UK

Vice Chair: Jaime Lerner, President, Jaime Lerner Institute, Curitiba, Brazil

Secretary-Treasurer: Nancy Sedmak-Weiss, Vice President and General Counsel, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies LLC, Rehoboth, DE

Habiba Al Marashi, Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nefise Bazoglu, Senior Fellow, Global Urban Development, Istanbul, Turkey

Lucelena Betancur, Director, Foundation Habitat Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Iman Bibars, Vice President, Askoka Global, and Regional Director, Ashoka Arab World, Cairo, Egypt

Edward Blakely, Professor of Urban Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Lawrence Bloom, Executive Chairman, Bhairavi Energy, London, UK

Lance Buhl, Deputy Director, Center for Leadership and Public Values, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC

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, Paris, France

Marlene Fernandes, International Advisor, Brazilian Institute for Municipal Administration, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Neil Fraser, Principal, Urban Inc., Johannesburg, South Africa

Luigi Fusco Girard, Professor and Director, Department of Conservation of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets Media (US and Brazil), St. Augustine, FL

Elliott Hoffman, Chairman and CEO, New Voice of Business, San Francisco, CA

Bianca Jagger, President, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, London, UK

Paola Jiron, Director, Institute of Housing, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Jane Katz, Director of International Affairs, Habitat for Humanity International, Washington, DC

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

Keith Laughlin, President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, DC

Vivian Lin, Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange, 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, CEO, Tomorrow’s Company, London, UK

Patricia McCarney, Professor and Director, Global Cities Program, Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jiang Mingjun, Director-General, International Eco-Safety Cooperative Organization, Beijing, China

Henrik Nolmark, Acting Center Director, Mistra Urban Futures, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mary Jane Ortega, Secretary General, CITYNET, Yokohama, Japan; and President, Solid Waste Management Authority of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines

Neal Peirce, Chairman, Citistates Group, Washington, DC

Janice Perlman, President, Mega-Cities Project, New York, NY

Tom Roper, Project Director, Small Island States Energy Initiative, Climate Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Donovan Rypkema, President, Heritage Strategies International, Washington, DC

Wandia Seaforth, Chief, Best Practices and Local Leadership Program, United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya

Nola-Kate Seymoar, former President and CEO, Sustainable Cities International, Vancouver, Canada

Asad Shah, Convener, Pakistan Engineering Council Think Tank on Infrastructure, Islamabad, Pakistan

Miquel Sodupe, Director, Urban Consortium for Development of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, Barcelona, Spain

Ludek Sykora, Vice Dean for Foreign Relations and Geography Section, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Kaarin Taipale, Chair, Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction, Ministry of the Environment, Government of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

Patrick Wakely, Emeritus Professor of Urban Development, Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, UK

Emiel Wegelin, Program Coordinator, GTZ Cities Development Initiative for Asia, Asian Development Bank, Metro Manila, Philippines

Michael Wegener, Partner, Spiekermann and Wegener Urban and Regional Research, Dortmund, Germany

Carol Willis, Director, Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY

Mark Willis, Resident 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, Chair, Steering Committee, World Urban Campaign, United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Nairobi, Kenya

Belinda Yuen, Associate Professor, Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

 

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