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CONTRIBUTORS

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Communications Manager at anteverti & CitiesToBe Co-Director

Cristina Garrido

Director of Innovation of Anteverti

Pilar Conesa

CEO of anteverti & Curator of the Smart City Expo World Congress

Ana Alcantud

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

Mons Badia

Senior Consultant at Anteverti

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Esteve Almirall

Professor of Innovation & Director of Center for Innovation in Cities at Esade Business Law School

Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Manu Fernandez

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

Sameh Wahba

Global Director of Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice at the World Bank

Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado

Director-general for Digital Nation & Urban Agenda of the Government of Catalonia

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Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Agustí Fernández de Losada

Senior Research Fellow & Director of the Global Cities Programme at CIDOB

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Parvati Nair

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

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Marta Galceran

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

Alba Soler

Public Sector Innovation Business Development Consultant at i2CAT Foundation and Expert in Digital Transition

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Pedro Vidal Matamala

Executive Secretary of the Coordination of Intelligent Transport Systems of the Ministry of Transport & Telecommunications of Chile

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Dan Lewis

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

Jung-hoon Lee

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Martha Thorne

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Albert Tapia

Consultant at anteverti

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Pontus Westerberg

Programme Management Officer at UN-Habitat &  Block by Block programme Special Advisor

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Diego Fernández

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

Martin Brynskov

Chair of Open & Agile Smart Cities & Associate Professor at Aarhus University

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Raquel Rolnik

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

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Maya Wiley

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

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Carlos Moreno

Professor at the Sorbonne University & Mayor of Paris’ Special Representative for Smart Cities

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Vicente Guallart

Founder of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia & Director of Valldaura Labs

Anna Gener

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at Deloitte

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Carla Sanmartin

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Carlos Grau

CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Eleonora Giorgi

Consultant at anteverti

Valeria Andrade

Consulting at Anteverti & Expert in metropolitan and sustainable mobility, affordable housing and public-private partnerships

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at Anteverti

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Ellis J. Juan

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

Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission