Apr 17, 2017
Feng-Yuan Liu is the Director of the Data Science Division at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore. One of his teams runs Beeline, a mobility-as-a-service experiment. He is passionate about applying data for the public good and building multi-disciplinary teams in the intersection of technology and the public good. He’s been a public policy wonk…
Apr 17, 2017
Freddie brings with him a unique and varied skillset stemming from 30 years in both the private sector and in government. He has worked in technology with Andersen Consulting and Siemens-Nixdorf; in finance with Citibank and he also served as Vice President for Business Development at the Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation, the Philippine’s largest urban…
Apr 17, 2017
Masaki Ogata joined Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1974 and afterward was assigned to East Japan Railway Company (JR East) when JNR was divided and privatized in 1987. He has been consistently working for railways for more than 41 years. Mr. Ogata was elected President of UITP at the 61st UITP World Congress & Exhibition…
Apr 17, 2017
Jared Ficklin is a futurist, creative technologist and partner at argodesign with two decades of experience creating products and visions for major companies. He is also an evangelist and co-creator of the cable car based mass transport vision known as The Wire. Jared designs with technology and has a passion for innovative or unique interaction…
Apr 17, 2017
Giles is the CMO of a 25 person tech startup trying to change the world for the better by addressing it all with just 3 words. Giles has spent 20 years in advertising, the last 10 at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the largest and most awarded agencies in the world. Specializing in global…
Apr 17, 2017
Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time. She has developed the “City as Living Lab”, a framework for making issues of sustainability tangible through collaboration and…
Apr 17, 2017
Arwen Colell studied comparative environmental and energy politics in Germany, Japan and the U.S. She worked on strategies for sustainable urban development for the Federal Ministry of the Environment and the integration of renewable energies and electric vehicles for a Berlin based start-up. Her PhD dissertation at the Environmental Policy Research Center Berlin focuses on…
Apr 17, 2017
Luise Neumann-Cosel is co-founder and CEO of BürgerEnergie Berlin eG. The citizen’s cooperative aims to buy the local electricity grid. Luise holds a M.Sc. in Geoecology from the University of Potsdam, has worked as a research associate for the Berlin parliament as well as for several NGOs and is studying for a PhD on growth…
Apr 17, 2017
Jacob Omorodion is the Lead Copywriter for NewCities at the 2016 NewCities Summit. Holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Economics and German from McGill University, Jacob is an incoming Master of Science candidate in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford. Jacob has a strong interest in urbanization in the…
Apr 17, 2017
Julie Monaco is the Global Head of Citi’s Public Sector Group in the Corporate and Investment Banking division of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group. Julie was named, in 2015, to the American Banker’s list of “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance” for the sixth year.
Apr 17, 2017
Melissa Alexander is an architect and urban designer at NBBJ, one of the world’s largest architecture and planning firms. Dedicated to educating the next generation of urban planners, she has served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as lead faculty at the Boston Architectural College, and as a fellow at…
Apr 10, 2017
Cristian worked Ashoka France and the Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications. He also contributed to the OECD’s work on Compact Cities and ran consulting missions for SciencesPo university’s Junior Consulting. He studied urban strategy and social sciences at SciencesPo Paris, where he wrote a thesis on the relationship between inequality and the innovative potential…