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CONTRIBUTORS

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Raquel Rolnik

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

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Maya Wiley

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

Mons Badia

anteverti Consultant

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Mikael Colville-Andersen

CEO of Copenhagenize Design Company

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant and Urban Expert

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy, Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Dan Lewis

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

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Parvati Nair

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

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director. Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Ellis J. Juan

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

Cristina Garrido

Director of Innovation and Strategic Development in anteverti

Esteve Almirall

Assoc. Professor. ESADE Business Law School

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Hila Oren

Director General of the Tel Aviv Foundation

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Manu Fernandez

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.