EVENTS // Global Cities Summit
Ahmed Hussain Alkhlaqi
Office of the Mayor, Makkah, Saudi ArabiaExecutive Director, Makkah Urban Observatory
Makkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia
Fernando Alvarez de Celis
Director General of PlanningPlanning Secretariat
Ministry of Urban Development
City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carl Bodimeade
Senior Vice-President, Hatch Mott MacDonaldChair, Ontario Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure
Niagara Falls, Canada
Gillian Booth
Clinician Scientist, St. Michael’s HospitalProfessor, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
George Baird
Professor Emeritus & Former Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & DesignSenior Fellow, Global Cities Institute
University of Toronto
Founding Principal, Baird Sampson Neuert
Toronto, Canada
Lucy Casacia
Vice President, Low and Medium Voltage DivisionCity Manager, GTHA and
2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Program Manager
Siemens Canada Limited
Oakville, Canada
Art Eggleton
Senator, CanadaChair, Global City Indicators Facility
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Mohamed El Sioufi
Coordinator, Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch, UN-HABITATCoordinator, Global Housing Strategy
Chalmers 150th Jubilee Visiting Professor
Chair, Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing international competition
Nairobi, Kenya
Isao Endo
Secretary, ISO/TC 268/SC 1 "Smart community infrastructures"Mizuho Information & Research Institute
Chiyoda-ku, Japan
Mila Freire
Senior Advisor, The World BankProfessional Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
Bethesda, USA
Maarten Hajer
Director, Netherlands Environmental Assessment AgencyProfessor, Public Policy, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jose Luis Hernandez
Project Manager, Climate Change & Sustainability, CSA GroupInternational Secretary, ISO/TC268/WG2 City Indicators
Mississauga, Canada
Dan Hoornweg
Associate Professor & Jeffrey Boyce Research Chair, University of Ontario Institute of TechnologyChief Safety and Risk Officer, Government of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Zhou Jun
Division DirectorShanghai Municipal Commission of City Development and Transport
Shanghai Municipal People’s Government
Shanghai, China
Chris Kennedy
Professor, Civil EngineeringDirector, Cities & Engineering Management, University of Toronto
President-elect, International Society for Industrial Ecology
Toronto, Canada
Jacques Lair
Chairman, Technical Committees ISO/TC 59/SC 17 & ISO/TC 268International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Paris, France
Calvin Lantz
Partner, Municipal and Public-Private Partnership/Infrastructure GroupStikeman Elliot LLP
Toronto, Canada
Bernard Leservoisier
Secretary, ISO TC268 & TC268 WG1 Management SystemsAFNOR Group - AFNOR Standardization
Paris, France
Matthew Lynch
Project Director, Urban Infrastructure InitiativeWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development
Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Mary Ma
ISO TC268 WG1 Expert; IEC Smart City SEG1 ExpertVP, iSoftStone Group
Engineer, Digital City Engineering Research Center of MoHURD
Consultant of National Smart City Industrial Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance
Beijing, China
Gora Mboup
Chief, Global Urban Observatory, UN-HABITATAuthor “Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity”
Nairobi, Kenya
Patricia McCarney
Professor, Political ScienceDirector, Global City Indicators Facility
Director, Global Cities Institute
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Tinashe Mushayanyama
Director, Strategic Information & ResearchCity of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Helen Ng
ISO TC268 WG2 City Indicators ExpertProgram Coordinator, Global City Indicators Facility
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Martin Powell
Head of Urban Development, Global Centre of Competence for CitiesSiemens AG
London, United Kingdom
Mary Luz Pinzon Romero
Deputy of Sectoral AnalysisSecretariat of Finance
City of Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
Irene del Rosario
City CouncilorSanggunian Panlungsod Member
City of San Jose del Monte
San Jose del Monte, Philippines
Helen Santiago Fink
Senior Programme Officer, Buildings and CitiesActing Head, Built Environment Unit
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/DTIE)
Paris, France
Saskia Sassen
Professor, SociologyCo-Chair, Committee on Global Thought
Columbia University
New York City, USA
Roger Sherman
Co-Director, cityLABAdjunct Professor, UCLA
Principal, Roger Sherman Architecture + Urban Design
Los Angeles, USA
Richard Sommer
Dean, Professor of Architecture & UrbanismJohn H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Richard Stren
Emeritus Professor, Political Science & Public PolicyUniversity of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Nico Tillie
Landscape Architect & European Union Liaison, City of RotterdamAssistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, Delft University of Technology
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Noah Toly
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Politics & International RelationsDirector, Urban Studies Program
Wheaton College
Wheaton, USA
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SPEAKERS
The Global Cities Summit featured 62 speakers from all regions of the world. Click here to view speaker presentations.
