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

Board of Directors

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

President: James Nixon, President, Climate Prosperity Strategies LLC, Oakland, CA
Vice Chair: Nicky Gavron, Council Member, Greater London Authority, London, UK

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

Secretary-Treasurer: Nancy Sedmak-Weiss, General Counsel, Climate Prosperity 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

Lawrence Bloom, Chairman, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Green Economy Initiative on Green Cities, Buildings, and Transport, 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

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 (USA and Brazil), St. Augustine, FL

Monika Jaeckel (deceased), Senior Advisor, Mother Centers International Network for Empowerment, Arnhem, Netherlands

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

C. S. Kiang, Chairman, Sustainable Development Technology Foundation, Beijing, China

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
Stella Madrid, Intergovernmental and Community Affairs Officer, Denver Housing Authority, Denver, CO

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

Henrik Nolmark, Managing Director, Urban Laboratory, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mary Jane Ortega, Secretary General, CITYNET, Yokohama, Japan

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

Nola-Kate Seymoar, President and CEO, International Center for Sustainable Cities, 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

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, Melbourne, Australia

Nicholas You, Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategic Planning, Office of the Executive Director, 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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