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,
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
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
Alain Durand-Lasserve, Senior Research
Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Marlene Fernandes, International
Advisor, Brazilian Institute for Municipal Administration,
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,
Vivian Lin, Professor of Public Health, La
Christine Loh, CEO, Civic Exchange,
Stella
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,
Janice Perlman, President,
Mega-Cities Project,
Tom
Roper,
Project Director, Small Island States Energy Initiative, Climate Institute,
Donovan Rypkema, President,
Heritage Strategies International,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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