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Bill Given is the Mayor of Grande Prairie, Alberta, a young and rapidly growing community of about 70,000 serving a trading area of just under 300,000. First elected in 2001, Mayor Given holds the distinction of being the youngest person ever elected to Grande Prairie’s City Council at the age of 24. After serving 3…

Jennifer Fix is an Associate of Urban Planning and Design at DIALOG, an integrated urban design firm with studios in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and San Francisco. She works with communities of all shapes and sizes on plans for Main Streets, transit streets, waterfronts, neighbourhoods, and entire cities and regions. The common thread tying these…

Laura Capobianco is a Senior Policy Advisor on Safe Public Spaces in the Ending Violence against Women and Girls Section. Since 2012, she has contributed to the development of a Global Framework on Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces and an accompanying global package of tools that are being adapted by and help to support…

Jennifer Campbell is a mixed race woman of Métis, First Nation and European ancestry, and is the Founder and President of Two Worlds Consulting. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Environmental Professional (EP) with two decades of experience as an executive, government regulator, and Indigenous relations specialist. Ms. Campbell provides strategic advice…

Mitchell Brownstein is the mayor of the City of Côte Saint-Luc (pop. 34,066), a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A lawyer by profession, Mitchell founded the law firm Brownstein and Brownstein with his brother in 1990. Mitchell was first elected as a city councillor in Côte Saint-Luc in 1990. He was acclaimed as the 12th…

Abram Benedict is the Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne (MCA) and leads a dynamic team of 13 Council members who govern the Mohawk community of Akwesasne. Akwesasne is the second largest First Nation community in Canada and is uniquely located on the international borders of Canada and the United States, and the…

Paola Ardiles is a public health champion, educator and social entrepreneur. Her work is rooted in community engaged scholarship, systems thinking and participatory practice. In 2017, Paola received the inaugural Health Promotion Canada’s Mid-career National award and was recognized as one of TD Bank’s 10 most influential Hispanic Canadians. In 2013, Paola founded Bridge for…

Susannah C. Drake FASLA, AIA is the founding principal of DLANDstudio PLLC Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Using grants and fellowships to remake infrastructure for storm-water capture, climate adaptation, and park creation, Susannah became an established leader in urban resilience planning and design. Susannah’s theories, practice and…

James has over 30 years of experience working on planning and urban design projects around the world, which has provided him with a deep understanding of cities as complex “systems of systems”, whose long-term success requires comprehensive and integrated strategies and approaches that balance the physical development of the built and natural environment, with sustainable…

Adam Hosking is Jacobs’s Global Director for Water Resources Solutions, with responsibility for services including flood and coastal risk management, ecosystem restoration and climate change adaptation. With a background in coastal geomorphology, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and Chartered Scientist with more than 24 years’ experience in…

Jason is the Head of the U.S. south water resources solutions segment and Florida resilience practice at Jacobs Engineering Group, together with U.S. network chair of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s ARISE network. Risk reduction efforts involve a range of subject matters such as climate change, resource demands, social values, extreme events and…