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Gabriella Gómez-Mont: «Cities are the best vehicle for ideas to travel»

By Gabriela Gomez-Mont | 2017

Gabriella Gómez-Mont explains how the Laboratorio para la Ciudad from Mexico City aims to inject innovation and citizen participation in an experimental space addressing the challenges of a megalopolis, from different approaches, scales and disciplines. It facilitates the interaction between citizens and governments, making people realize citizenship is a creative act and governments are catalyzers.

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Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Gabriella directs Laboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City's new creative think-tank and experimental space. Gabriella has won several international awards and recognitions for her work in different disciplines. Gabriella is a Fabrica alumni, a TED Senior Fellow and a Yale World Fellow, and was recently selected as a World Cities Summit Young Leader.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Pilar Conesa

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

Cristina Garrido

Director of Innovation of anteverti

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Mons Badia

Consultant at anteverti

anteverti team

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Alba Soler

Consultant at anteverti

Ana Alcantud

Consulting Director of anteverti

Manu Fernandez

Founder of Human Scale City & Senior Consultant in anteverti

Sergio García i Rodríguez

Communications Manager at anteverti & CitiesToBe Co-Director

Boyd Cohen

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Jeff Merritt

Director of Innovation, new head of IoT at WEF4IR

Rebecca Smith

Head of Knowledge & Policy at Climate Infrastructure Partnership

Inazio Martínez de Arano

Head of Office in European Forest Institute Mediterranean Regional Office

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Urbanist, designer, author & inspirational speaker

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive of Nesta UK

Natalia Olson-Urtecho

Co-Founder of The Disruptive Factory

Rashiq Fataar

Urbanist and Director of Our Future Cities

Marta Galceran

Senior Consultant at anteverti & Researcher

Robert Muggah

Co-founder of Igarapé Institute

Maya Wiley

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

Tatiana Gallego Lizón

Division Chief for Urban Development at IDB

Parvati Nair

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

Kumaresh Chandra Mishra

Former Deputy Secretary General Habitat III Conference. United Nations

Bahaaeddin Alhaddad

Space Business Development and Urban Remote Sensing at Starlab Ltd

Darko Radovic

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University

Lacina Koné

Director General of Smart Africa

Linda Weiss

Professor of political science at the University of Sydney

Victor Pineda

President of World Enabled

Gabriela Gomez-Mont

Chief Creativity Officer at Laboratorio para la Ciudad. México City

Carlos Moreno

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

Sameh Wahba

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

Tamara Drove Aldana

APEC Advisor on Women and Inclusive Growth

Martin Brynskov

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

Joan Clos

Former Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Suzanne Spooner

Consultant & Urban Expert

Sladjana Mijatovic

Program Manager Circular Economy & Innovation at City of Amsterdam

Catherine DIgnazio

Professor of Urban Science & Planning at MIT

Amador Ferrer

Architect and Professor at Universitat Ramón Llull

Janette Sadik Khan

Former NYC Transportation Commissioner and Principal at Bloomberg Associates

Francis Pisani

Author and consultant

Alice Charles

Cities and Urban Development Lead at the World Economic Forum

Dan Lewis

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

Jason Roberts

Founder of the Better Block

Laura Faye Tenenbaum

Science communicator · former Editor at NASA Climate Change website

Esteve Almirall

Assoc. Professor. ESADE Business Law School

Pontus Westerberg

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

Raquel Rolnik

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

Kilian Kleinschmidt

Entrepreneur and advisor. Former UNHCR official.

Hila Oren

Director General of the Tel Aviv Foundation

Ellis J. Juan

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

Mireia Tuduri

Consultant at anteverti

Chaturvedi Bharati

Founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Juliana Rotich

Co-founder of Ushahidi

Beth Simone Noveck

Founder and Director. Governance Lab

Carla Sanmartin

Internal Organization Manager at anteverti

Elkin Velásquez

UN-Habitat Regional Director for Latin America

Albert Tapia

Consultant at anteverti

Goldsmith Stephen

Director of the Innovations Program at Harvard Kennedy School

Aníbal Gaviria

Alcalde de la ciudad de Medellín (2012-15)

Pankaj Ghemawat

Global Professor of Management and Strategy, IESE

Jesús Villasante

Head Net Innovation Unit of the European Comission

Markku Markkula

First Vice-President EU Committee of the Regions

Anna Gonzàlez

Consultant at anteverti

Edward Glaeser

Professor of Economics at Harvard University

Ricard Garriga

Co-founder Menorca Millenials

Gaetan Siew

CEO Global Creative Leadership Initiative

Carlos Vayas

Business Manager Big Data Telefónica Ecuador

Eleonora Giorgi

Consultant at anteverti

Cecile Faraud

London in Action Initiative Manager at CDP

Marta Santamaria

Consultant at anteverti

Shannon Lawrence

Director Global Initiatives. C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

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