Global Urban Development
Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Prague, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC

Board of Directors

Chairman: Marc Weiss, CEO, Global Urban Development, Washington, DC
Vice Chairman: Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, London, UK

Secretary-Treasurer: Nancy Sedmak-Weiss, CEO, Climate Prosperity Strategies, Rehoboth Beach, DE

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

Kevin Appel, Legal Counsel, Treasurers’ Association of Virginia, Arlington, VA

Nefise Bazoglu, Independent Consultant, Istanbul, Turkey

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

Lance Buhl, Deputy Director, Center for Leadership and Public Values, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC
Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Peter Calthorpe and Associates, Berkeley, CA

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

Nicky Gavron, Council Member, Greater London Authority, London, UK

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

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

Bianca Jagger, Chair, World Future Council, 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

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, Chairman, International Eco-Safety Cooperative Organization, Beijing, China

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

Mary Jane Ortega, Consultant for Legislative Affairs, League of Cities of the Philippines, San Fernando, 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

Wendy Sarkissian, Director, Sarkissian Associates Planners, Queensland, Australia

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, Member, Infrastructure Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

Miguel 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, Visiting Scholar, Ford Foundation, New York, NY

David Wilmoth, President, Learning Cities International, Melbourne, Australia

Nicholas You, Special Advisor for 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
Robert Zdenek, President, New Jersey Community Capital, Trenton, NJ

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