Mar 02, 2018
Esther Alder has been an Executive Council Member of the City of Geneva (representative of the Green party) and Chairwoman of the Department of social cohesion and solidarity of the City of Geneva since 2011. She was Mayor of Geneva from 2015 – 2016.
Mar 02, 2018
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman is an urban anthropologist and Director of THINK.urban, a research consultancy firm based in Philadelphia that works to improve our cities through the lens of anthropology. She has worked with organizations including Copenhagenize, Project for Public Spaces, and City ID to bring humanist philosophy into city planning and design. She is also the…
Mar 01, 2018
Chiara Corazza is currently the Managing Director of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. From 2002 to 2016, she was the Managing Director of the Greater Paris Investment Agency, an association in charge of attracting foreign investors to the Greater Paris Region and enhancing its attractiveness by mobilizing political and economic decision makers.…
Mar 01, 2018
Ana Nassar joined ITDP Brazil in November 2014 as Program Director. She is a Fellow of the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEED) international network since 2007. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as Environmental Manager for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and was responsible for the implementation of the competition’s environmental projects.…
Mar 01, 2018
Joshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Officer at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and…
Feb 28, 2018
Amanda Eaken is Director of Transportation and Climate in the Urban Solutions Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where her work focuses on decarbonizing transportation in the United States. She is currently leading a groundbreaking analysis of the environmental impacts of the Transportation Network Companies Lyft and Uber, to help understand whether these…
Feb 27, 2018
Thierry Mallet has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Transdev Group and Transdev S.A. since September 9, 2016. He is a graduate of École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and also holds a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed Senior Vice President in…
Feb 23, 2018
Promigas’ CEO since 1992, a Colombian organization in the energy and natural gas sector with more than 40 years of experience and a holding comprised of 13 companies and an inclusive business -Brilla-benefiting with credits approximately more than 650.000 people at the BOP. Leader of the widespread use of natural gas as preferred fuel. Today,…
Feb 23, 2018
Jay Carson serves as the Executive Director for C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Senior Advisor to Bloomberg Philanthropies. In this capacity, Carson has overseen the integration of C40 and Clinton Climate Initiative Cities program to develop a premiere climate change organization committed to implementing meaningful and sustainable climate-related actions locally that will address climate…
Feb 23, 2018
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He is a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He was Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and now advises the Olympic…
Feb 23, 2018
Gianluca Brugnoli is a Creative Director at frog in Milan. Bringing more than 15 years’ experience, the architect and PhD in Industrial Design has been focusing on interaction design and user experience strategy, specialized in digital services. He is mostly involved in the untangling of complex systems and processes, seen as frameworks and platforms enabling…
Feb 23, 2018
As Senior Editor and Content Chief, Diane Brady has led corporate and management coverage since June 2008. Previously, she was a senior writer and bureau chief, winning numerous industry awards for her stories. Before that, she worked at The Wall Street Journal in Asia, Canada’s Maclean’s and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi,…