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Since 1997 his mainly research topics have been Participatory Budgets and techniques for citizens’ participation to urban planning, topics on which he published several articles, essays and books. He has been scientific director of two EU projects in the field of Participation: “Participando” and “INCLUIR – Participatory Budget as a tool for fighting social exclusion”. He is co-director of the Ph.D. course “Democracy in the XXI century” and coordinator of the PEOPLES’ Observatory on Participation, Innovation and Local Powers. For the World Bank he worked as a resource person in training (in SouthAfrica and Senegal) and as an evaluator (Congo RDC), and is consultant of the Swedish Associations of Municipality and Regions (2007-2012) to support the first experiments of participatory budget in that country.

Joe is helping form the growth management and transportation plans for the Toronto region. He was appointed to the Enabling Panel of the Commission on Architecture and the Built Environment, teaches at the University of Toronto and is a regular media commentator and writer on urban issues.

Dr. Busch joined Siemens AG in 1994, starting in the Corporate Research and Development Department and moving through various positions developing expertise in the areas of automotive, transportation and internal processes and management. His recent executive posts include heading up Siemens’ Infotainment Solutions Division in 2002, president and CEO of Siemens automotive for Asia Pacific in Shanghai in 2005, then moving back to Germany in 2007 to head up the Mass Transit division for the Transportation Systems Group. His most recent position was Head of Corporate Strategies for Siemens AG in Munich.

Dr. Busch studied physics at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and at the University of Grenoble in France, where he received his doctorate.

ICLEI promotes local action for global sustainability and supports cities to become sustainable, resilient, resource-efficient, biodiverse, low- carbon; to build a smart infrastructure; and to develop an inclusive, green urban economy with the ultimate aim to achieve healthy and happy communities. As President of ICLEI, Mr Cadman has represented Local Government internationally at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and the Conferences of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention of Biological Diversity. Representing the Local Government community, ICLEI’s municipal membership, but also as motivational speaker, he has spoken at countless international congresses and conferences worldwide.

David Cadman was Councillor of the City of Vancouver BC, Canada, for three terms. He was first elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2005 and 2008. He served for six years as a Councillor with the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). He represented Vancouver on the Greater Vancouver Regional District and Metro Vancouver Board of Directors, serving on both the Land Use & Transportation; and Environment & Energy committees. He also served on the Translink Board of Directors where he chaired the Finance Committee. He represented Vancouver as a board member of the United Nations-initiated International Association of Peace Messenger Cities.

A social and environmental activist for over 30 years, he has served as the President of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC). He has also served the United Nations Association at the national and international level, and was awarded the United Nations Peace Medal and United Nations 50th Anniversary Medal.

Mr Cadman was born in Montréal and grew up in Toronto. He attended the University of the South in Tennessee, USA and then moved to Geneva where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary and International Develop-ment. He studied Adult Education at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and is fluent in French.

After spending several years in Tanzania and Kenya developing literacy programs, Mr Cadman returned to Canada in 1976 and settled in British Columbia. He worked for the Social Planning and Research Council in establishing the Community Development Institute.

Prior to joining the United Nations, he served as Spanish ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Dr Clos trained as a medical doctor, specialised in Public Health and Epidemiology. He joined the Barcelona Municipal Government in 1979 as Director of Public Health. As a city councillor between 1983 and 1987, he earned a reputation for improving municipal management and for urban renewal projects, notably managing the renovation of downtown Barcelona’s Ciutat Vella district. From 1990 to 1994 he was Deputy Mayor in change of Finance and Budgeting, playing a key role during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Joan Clos is also widely credited with inspiring far-reaching investment programmes for Barcelona. One of the most ambitious was the Barcelona@22 programme which gave the city’s dilapidated industrial zones a facelift. In 2004 one of these newly refurbished neighbourhoods near the old dockyards was chosen as the site for the second gathering of UN-HABITAT’s World Urban Forum, the premier global conference on cities. At the international level, he was elected President of Metropolis, the international network of cities in 1998. Two years later, he was elected President of the World Association of Cities and Local Authorities (WACLAC). Between 2000 and 2007, he served as Chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA). And between 1997 and 2003, he was member of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, (CEMR). Dr. Clos received a number of awards which include a gold medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1999 for transforming Barcelona. In 2002, he won the UN-HABITAT Scroll of Honour Award for encouraging global cooperation between local authorities and the United Nations.

He provides strategic leadership and management to EMBARQ’s global staff and partners, as well as direction for its fundraising and communications. Mr. Dalkmann joined WRI with a strong background in business development, research, and policy in the transport and environment sectors. Formerly, he worked as Programme Director for Sustainable Transport and Climate Change at TRL. Through his work there, and for ten years at the Wuppertal Institute for Energy, Climate, and Environment (Germany), he developed new areas of expertise and established his teams as centres of excellence. Recently, he founded the Bridging the Gap Initiative and co-founded the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT).

Holger publishes frequently for academic journals, major publishers and for other institutions like ADB, GEF STAP, UNESCAP. He developed the Avoid-Shift- Improve Paradigm in the 2007 GIZ Sourcebook module on climate change, which became the leading concept for sustainable transport. For the UNEP Green Economy Report, he is the lead author of the transport chapter.

Mr. Dalkmann graduated from the University of Trier, where he received a Diploma in Geography.

From 1980 to 1991, for 11 of those 22 years, he was Mayor of Toronto, the longest serving Mayor in the City’s history. In recognition of his service to the City, Mr. Eggleton received Toronto's highest honour, the Civic Award of Merit, in 1992.

Art Eggleton served 11 years in the House of Commons as the member for York Centre. First elected in 1993, he was soon thereafter appointed to Cabinet where he served in the following positions:

• President of the Treasury Board & Minister Responsible for Infrastructure (1993-1996)
• Minister for International Trade (1996-1997)
• Minister of National Defence (1997-2002)
• Vice-Chairman of Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy (1997-2002)

On March 24, 2005, Art Eggleton was appointed to the Senate of Canada. He currently serves as Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology and is a member of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.

In December 2009, the Social Affairs Committee completed a study on poverty, housing and homelessness in Canadian cities entitled, In From the Margins: A Call to Action Poverty, Housing and Homelessness.

In 2011, he was appointed as a treasurer of Liberal International (LI), an organization of liberal and progressive democratic political parties.

In 2012, he co-founded and is co-Chair of the All Party Anti-Poverty Caucus, a group consisting of Members of Parliament and Senators from all political parties. In the same year, he was appointed as Chair of the Board of Global City Indicators Facility (GCIF).

The Urban Practice provides advisory services to the World Bank’s regional departments and country clients on key urban themes such as Cities and Economic growth, Urban Housing and Land, Urban Planning, City Management and Municipal Finance, Urban Environment, Cities and Climate Change, Urban Poverty and Inclusion, Cultural Heritage and Local Economic Development. She led the World Bank's Urban Strategy in 2009.

Ms. Joshi-Ghani has worked primarily on infrastructure finance and urban development at the World Bank . Her experience in the Bank includes countries in South and East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She holds an M.Phil from Oxford University, UK.

In fact, he has developed a mantra that clearly states the vision of the City Council for the Urban Habitat area and the city of Barcelona: “Many slow cities inside a Smart City”. To do so, his aims for Barcelona include the re-naturalization of the city, the definition and promotion of self-sufficient blocks, guaranteeing the city’s urban connectivity, among others, which altogether include more than 60 concrete projects. Previous to his appointing as Chief Architect, Vicente Guallart has carried out numerous architectural projects in which environment issues converge with information technologies, notably for the ports of Fugee and Keelung in Taiwan, the Sociopolis neighbourhood in Valencia, and the Sharing Blocks in Gandia. Former founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), he ran the IAAC Media House project (in conjunction with the CBA at MIT), which won the 2002 Ciutat de Barcelona prize. In 2010 he co-directed the Fab Lab House project, winner of the Solar Decathlon Europe Audience Award. In 1992 he won a FAD award for a private house in the historic centre of Barcelona. He has been invited on three occasions to show in the official Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the Barcelona Metapolis, Denia Artificial Mountain and Hyperhabitat projects. In 2006 he was selected for the MOMA’s On Site exhibition in New York. He has lectured at a number of universities worldwide, including MIT, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard GSD. He is co-author of several books, such as the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture, and the author of Geologics and La ciudad autosuficiente en red (Selfsufficient networked city) that will be published in May 2012.

He earned his Ph.D. in Urban Development and Masters in City Planning from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. His research focuses on property rights and obligations, land readjustment/sharing, and local public finance. Specifically, he is interested in investigating how governments can capture land value increments created by public investment and community collaboration for financing local infrastructure and durable shelters for the poor.

Dr. Hong has been teaching urban public finance since 1996 and publishes on topics related to property rights, public land leasing, land readjustment, and property taxation. He is the author of several academic papers and the coeditor of ten books including: Leasing Public Land: Policy Debates and International Experiences (2003; translated into Chinese in 2007); Analyzing Land Readjustment: Economics, Law, and Collective Action (2007); Land Policies and Their Outcomes (2007); Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies (2008); Property Rights and Land Policies (2009); Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes (2009); Local Revenues and Land Policies (2010); China’s Local Public Finance in Transition (2010); Climate change and Land Policies (2011); and Value Capture and Land Policies (2012).

His current research projects include: (1) the design of durable shelter solutions for internally displaced persons in the post-war era of Iraq; (2) the balancing of property rights and obligations in land and housing policy discourse in the United States; and (3) potential applications of participatory and inclusive land readjustment (PILaR) for urban upgrading in developing countries.

In 2012, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, in the College of Environmental Design.

Steffen is an architect, author and urbanist. He studied in the 1980s at the Architectural Association in London, and completed a PhD at the TU-Berlin. He has been working with James Stirling in London and Arata Isozaki in Tokyo, before establishing his own research-driven studio. Since 1992 he has been practising as a registered architect and urban designer in Berlin, where he established his own practice, the Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (s_Lab), to pursue a more ethically correct practice. He is a full professor since 2002. Over the last 20 years, Steffen has been at the forefront of sustainable architecture, won a number of design awards and has published books. He is the author of 12 books, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Green Building, and of the Earthscan book series on sustainable design. His latest book: ‘Designing for Zero Waste’ (Routledge, 2012). In 2009 he was the DAAD Visiting Professor at TU Munich and at the National University Singapore.

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He has received numerous awards and designed world-renowned projects including: the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Military History Museum in Dresden, and the masterplan for Grand Zero among others. Daniel Libeskind’s commitment to expanding the scope of architecture reflects his profound interest and involvement in philosophy, art, literature and music. Fundamental to Libeskind’s philosophy is the notion that building are crafted with the perceptible human energy, and that they address the greater cultural context in which they are built. Daniel teaches and lectures at universities across the world. He resides in New York City with his wife and business partner, Nina Libeskind.

Mr. Löscher studied Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a graduate of Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program and holds an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering from Michigan State University and an Honorary Professorship at Tongji University, China.

From September 2002 he was Director-General of the Competition DG until he took up his current appointment as Director-General of the Energy DG in February 2010.

Before that, he had more than ten years of working experience in urban planning, housing and building policies at the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He holds a MUP (Urban Planning) from New York University and Ph.D. from Tokyo University (Engineering). He also studied at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He currently lectures as a visiting professor at Tsukuba University, Japan.

After graduating in environmental law, Raimondo worked at the International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris from 2005 to 2008. As an energy and environment senior advisor, he was responsible for the world Competence Centre on environment and sustainability. Raimondo is a member of several EU Commission working groups, international research projects, CEN and EEA expert groups on environmental topics.From 1995 to 2005, after holding a consultancy role for environmental law firms and consumer rights associations, he was called by FS/Trenitalia (a state-owned Italian railways company) where he became an environmental team leader, dealing particularly with compliance, management systems, environmental reporting and communication. Raimondo is the author of many publications, a lecturer and a speaker at international events.

From 2004 - 2005, Ms Ried conducted a Fulbright Scholarship in Barcelona, Spain on the topic of integrating environmental considerations in to urban redevelopment projects. She holds a Master's degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree from Brown University.

Ms. Ried's interests and expertise lie in the areas of land use and infrastructure planning, urban design, informal settlement upgrading, and urban sustainability.

Ian is also a Governing Board member of the Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community set up by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology in 2010 to become Europe’s catalyst for climate change innovation.

Ian was previously Deputy Chief Executive at the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC), the short-life agency established to lead the regeneration of east London. It was tasked with securing private sector investment and enabling large physical and social regeneration schemes in some of the UK’s most deprived communities. Ian joined in early 2005 soon after the organisation was established and led the corporate and economic development functions.

During his time at the LTGDC, Ian also helped lead the development of the Institute for Sustainability from original concept through to fully operational charitable organisation in just over two years. He became a Founding Trustee of the Institute in March 2009 and resigned in February 2010 to take up his role as Chief Executive. Before the LTGDC, Ian worked at Lehman Brothers for ten years in London and New York where he held a number of roles with focus on running project teams and managing the corporate functions of the operations division. When he left he was a senior vice president with responsibility for global project management and the corporate functions for a division of 1,400 people. While at Lehman Brothers, Ian was also actively involved in setting up and running a number of community based schemes in east London. Ian began his career working for the New Zealand Treasury on health sector reforms.

She also acts as liaison officer with UNEP's sister agency UN-HABITAT, and together with other partners (such as Cities Alliance, the World Bank and main city networks) provides support to cities in areas related to resource efficiency. The role of cities in transitioning towards resource efficiency and green economy is a key area of her work. In particular, Soraya leads the development of the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities, which was launched in Rio in June 2012 with the main objective of integrating resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production into policies and tools at city level.

Before joining UNEP in 2008, she worked for 10 years in UN-HABITAT in the field of sustainable urban development. Soraya Smaoun worked extensively on tools and policy advice to cities in developing countries in the areas of urban management and urban environment. In particular she was the coordinator of the Local Agenda 21 Programme, active in more than 10 cities in Africa, Latin American and the Caribbean and Asia. Through the different positions she held in UN-HABITAT, she supported and worked with a variety of actors (governments, civil society, and private sector) through implementation of projects, advocacy and capacity-building in several domains: environmental planning, local development and governance, poverty reduction, urban planning, violence prevention and gender.

Soraya holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Political Science with a focus on developing countries, from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence (France).

He participated in planning and organizing "Listening to the City," the historic electronic town hall forum on the World Trade Center site held in July, 2002 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Mr. Wright manages a staff of 35, oversees budgeting and fiscal planning for a $6 million organization, and coordinates a 60-member Board of Directors.

Mr. Wright lectures widely on growth management and regional planning. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; and the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He has served a resource team member for the Governors Institute on Community Design.

Previously, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning, where he coordinated adoption of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan (2001) and wrote the Executive Summary of the State Plan. From 1991 to 1993, he was Coordinator of the award-winning Mayors' Institute on City Design, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tom Wright received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a certificate in American Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University, where he received a Kinne Fellowship and AICP Award. He is a member of the Forum for Urban Design and the Board of Directors of the Riverside South Planning Corporation and the Arts Council of Princeton. He resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Cameron Manning, and three daughters.