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,
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
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
Alain Durand-Lasserve, Senior Research
Fellow, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Marlene Fernandes, International
Advisor, Brazilian Institute for Municipal Administration,
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,
Vivian Lin,
Professor of Public Health, La
Christine Loh, CEO,
Civic Exchange,
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,
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, 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,
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,
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