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CONTRIBUTORS

Raquel Rolnik

Prof. at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at University of São Paulo

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Mikael Colville-Andersen

CEO of Copenhagenize Design Company

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Manu Fernandez

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant and Urban Expert

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy, Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Ellis J. Juan

Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative General Coordinator at Inter-American Development Bank

Dan Lewis

President, Westcoast International. Forrmer Chief Urban Risk Reduction, UN Habitat

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Hila Oren

Director General of the Tel Aviv Foundation

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Parvati Nair

Director of the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director. Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Cristina Garrido

Director of Innovation and Strategic Development in anteverti

Esteve Almirall

Assoc. Professor. ESADE Business Law School

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Maya Wiley

Civil rights activist and board chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Mons Badia

anteverti Consultant

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd