Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis is the President, Westcoast International and former Chief Urban Risk Reduction, United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Dan leaded the Barcelona based City Resilience Profiling Programme focusing on providing governments with tools for measuring and increasing resilience to multi-hazard impacts.

Resilience

Dan Lewis: "We need to look at the immigration flows as flows of assets"

By Dan Lewis

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

CONTRIBUTORS

Cristina Garrido

CEO of Anteverti & Director of CitiesToBe

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Head of Communications at Anteverti & CitiesToBe Executive Editor

Mons Badia

Senior Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Creative Urban Solutions, Eco-innovation, Environmental Resilience & Circularity

Pilar Conesa

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

Manu Fernandez

Deputy Director General of Anteverti & Expert in Urban Innovation and Public Policies

Ana Alcantud

Former Consulting Director of Anteverti

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Anteverti Team

Raül Daussà

Consulting Director at Anteverti

Dr. Hila Oren

CEO of The Tel Aviv Foundation

Esteve Almirall

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

Sameh Wahba

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

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Lauren Sorkin

Executive Director of the Resilient Cities Network

Maya Wiley

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

Carlos Moreno

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

Pontus Westerberg

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

Agustí Fernández de Losada

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

Dan Lewis

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

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

May al-Ibrashy

Founder and chair of Megawra-Built Environment Collective

Vicente Guallart

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

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Ramon Gras

Co-founder of Aretian and researcher at Harvard University

Alba Soler

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

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Majora Carter

Urban Revitalization Consultant at the Majora Carter Group

Shawyn Patterson-Howard

Aparna Ramanan

Senior Program Manager for Bloomberg Philanthropies' Government Innovation program

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

José de la Uz

President of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities & Mayor of Las Rozas de Madrid

Raquel Rolnik

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

Diego Fernández

Buenos Aires' Secretary of Innovation & Digital Transformation

Siphelele Ngobese

Senior Researcher at the South African Cities Network

Arturo Bris

Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Albert Tapia

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Local and Regional Economic Development

Maria Galindo Garcia-Delgado

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

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Cecilia Tham

CEO of Futurity Systems

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Christina Yan Zhang

Jung-hoon Lee

Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Yonsei University

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Mar Santamaría

Co-founder of 300.000 Km/s

Susan HayesCulleton

Managing Director at the HayesCulleton Group

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Orna Rosenfeld

Advisor in Housing and Urban Affairs

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Marta Galceran

Research Fellow at CIDOB

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

UNESCO Chair on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Parvati Nair

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

Claudio Orrego Larraín

Governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Roman Demyanenko

Documentary photographer

Anna Gener

CEO of Savills Aguirre Newman Barcelona

Martha Thorne

Advisor to the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Pedro Vidal Matamala

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

Carlo Ratti

Director of the MIT Senseable City Lab & founding partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Mobility, Urban Innovation & Citizen Participation

Martin Brynskov

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

Tatiane Martins Carrer

Senior Consultant at Anteverti & Expert in Urban Innovation and Design of Spaces

Carlos Grau

CEO of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Anneli Simm

Business Development Manager at the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

Francesca Tur

Valeria Andrade

Consultant & Senior Congress Specialist at Anteverti

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at Anteverti

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Eleonora Giorgi

Capacity Building Officer at the European Urban Initiative

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Balbina Rocosa

Senior Consultant & Digital Transformation Expert at Anteverti

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Ellis J. Juan

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

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Clàudia Gomis

Consultant at Anteverti & Civil Society, Conflict, Migration & Global Development

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at Deloitte

Carla Sanmartin

Head of Administration at Anteverti

Felix Finkbeiner

Founder of Plant-for-the-Planet