Board of Directors

 

Jobeda Ali, Chair and CEO, Three Sisters Care, London, UK

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

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Vice Chair: Lawrence Bloom, Secretary General, Be Earth Foundation, and Chairman, Be Energy, London, UK

 

David Burwell, Nonresident Senior Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC

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Cezar Busatto, Secretary for Political Coordination and Local Governance, and Chief Resilience Officer, Porto Alegre City Government, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Andrzej Flis, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Comparative Studies of Civilization, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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

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

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Martin Greenfield, President, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, Brooklyn, NY

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Emilio Haddad, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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

 

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

 

Eric J. Hobsbawm, Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History, Birkbeck College, London, UK

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

 

​G. Thomas Kingsley, Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute, Washington, DC

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Vice Chair: Jaime Lerner, Chairman, Jaime Lerner Associated Architects, and President, Jaime Lerner Institute, Curitiba, Brazil

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Gill-Chin Lim, Distinguished Institute Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul, Korea

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

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Vice Chair: Neal Peirce, Chairman, Citistates Group, Washington, DC

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

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Francesc Santacana, General Coordinator, Strategic Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Anthony Smith, Partner, Schmeltzer, Aptaker, and Shepard, Washington, DC

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Michael Wegener, Partner, Spiekermann and Wegener Urban and Regional Research, and Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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Advisory Board

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Ray Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Interface, Atlanta, GA

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Charles Billand, Chairman and Executive Director, City Partners International, Washington, DC

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Nick Bollman, Senior Fellow, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, Coral Gables, FL

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JoAnn Carmin, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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Helene Connor, Founder, HELIO International, Paris, France

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Kim van Deventer, Director, Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Cape Town, South Africa

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Hank Dittmar, Principal, Hank Dittmar Associates, London, UK

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Robert Dubinsky, Chairman, IHC Global, Washington, DC

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Leonard Duhl, Professor of Public Health and Urban Planning, University of California, Berkeley, CA

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Malick Gaye, Executive Director, ENDA RUP, Dakar, Senegal

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Joseph Gross, Principal, Sustainable Systems, Oakland, CA

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Richard Hollingsworth, President, Gateway Cities Partnership, Paramount, CA

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William Hudnut, Senior Fellow, Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC

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Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, and Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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Michael Luger, Professor and Dean, Business and Management, Regent's University London, London, UK

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Barbara McMurray, Senior Associate, Executive Training Division, SMI, Washington, DC

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Zane Miller, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

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Roger Montgomery, Professor Emeritus, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, CA

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Jiri Musil, Professor of Sociology, Center for Social and Economic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Landscape Architect, Vancouver, Canada

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H. Peter Oberlander, Senior Ministerial Advisor to the Secretary of State on the World Urban Forum 2006, Vancouver, Canada

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John Parr, Principal, Civic Results, Denver, CO

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Adam Roberts, Executive Director, Bethesda Green, Bethesda, MD

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Mona Serageldin, Vice President, Institute for International Urban Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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W. Cecil Steward, President and CEO, Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

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Dave Wetzel, Vice Chair, Transport for London, and CEO, Transforming Communities, London, UK

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Barbara Wolfson, Principal, Capital Ideas, Washington, DC

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