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Jie Tang: Vice Mayor, Shenzhen Municipal Government of China

Jie Tang is the Vice Mayor of Shenzhen Municipal Government of China since 2009. As the leader in charge of the work of Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission, he leads the team responsible for designing and implementing Shenzhen Emissions Trading Pilot Scheme. He is the strong advocate of Shenzhen Emissions Trading Scheme and the key person who helps Shenzhen become one of the seven ETS pilots in China.Under his leadership, Shenzhen ETS pilot has made significant progress and achieved great [...]

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Richard M. Daley: Executive Chairman, Tur Partners LLC

The longest-serving mayor in Chicago’s history, Richard M. Daley has earned an international reputation as a leading innovator in urban development, fiscal policy and government stewardship. As mayor, Mr. Daley enhanced Chicago’s quality of life, improved the public school system and infrastructure, strengthened the economy, reduced crime, improved transportation and made Chicago one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. Mr. Daley transformed the Chicago economy by bringing cutting-edge businesses to the city. During his 22-year tenure as [...]

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Isabel Dedring: Deputy Mayor of London

Isabel Dedring is Deputy Mayor for Transport. Before her appointment, she was the Mayor’s Environment Advisor. A qualified lawyer, she has worked across both public and private sectors including at Transport for London as Director of the Commissioner’s Policy Unit and at McKinsey and Company, where she spent four years working with clients in regulated industries including telecoms and transport.

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Donald B. Marron: Chairman, Lightyear Capital

As a lifelong resident of the world’s leading city, an entrepreneur and international business leader, and an active director of several institutions critical to New York City’s civic infrastructure, Donald B. Marron’s passion for critical and innovative thinking about the pivotal role cities play in our global society is perfectly matched to NYU’s Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment’s mission. As Chairman of the Advisory Board, Mr. Marron will support and inspire the Institute to stimulate new ideas [...]

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Jung Hee Song: Senior Executive Vice President, KT

Jung Hee Song, a senior executive vice president at Platform & Innovation Group, is an engineer who has opened up the first generation of engineering industries for women. Ms. Song graduated from Seoul National University in 1981 majoring in Electronics Engineering and obtained Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989. Since then, she has been involved in politics, government, and academia while devoting her effort to improving development of the IT industries in Korea. [...]

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Richard Barkham: Group Research Director, Grosvenor Group

Richard Barkham is Grosvenor Group Research Director. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Grosvenor Fund Management. Richard’s expertise is in global macro economics and real estate strategy. He has worked for Grosvenor for twelve years. His first post (2000-2005) was Research Director for Grosvenor Britain & Ireland where he played a major role in providing research support for Grosvenor’s award winning retail development programme. As Group Research Director (2006-2011), Richard was responsible for risk analysis, long range forecasts and [...]

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Kasim Reed: Mayor of Atlanta, GA

Kasim Reed was inaugurated as the 59th Mayor of the City of Atlanta on January 4, 2010. Since then, he has hired more than 700 police officers, re-opened all of the city’s recreation centers as safe havens for young people and improved core city services such as fire-rescue response times and sanitation operations. Working with the Atlanta City Council and the city’s employee unions, he successfully initiated a series of sweeping reforms to address the city’s $1.5 billion unfunded pension [...]

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Bjarke Ingels: Founding Architect, BIG

Bjarke Ingels started BIG Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. Bjarke has received numerous awards and honors, including the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and the ULI [...]

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Jill Lerner: Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox

Jill Lerner is a Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, one of the worlds most respected and innovative architectural design firms. Operating as one firm with offices in New York, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Abu Dhabi, KPF is led by 23 Principals and 19 Directors. The firm’s more than 600 staff members come from 43 different countries, speak more than 30 languages, and include over 80 LEED accredited professionals. KPF’s diverse portfolio, which features over 70 projects certified [...]

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Janette Sadik-Khan: Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation

Janette Sadik-Khan has served as the Commissioner of NYCDOT since 2007. Internationally recognized for her expertise in transportation issues, public policy development and innovative finance, Sadik-Khan has implemented an ambitious program to improve safety, mobility and sustainability throughout NYC, and ensure a state of good repair on the city’s roads, sidewalks and bridges. Sadik-Khan has overseen a series of innovative projects, including creating more pedestrian space in Times Square and along Broadway from Columbus Circle to Union Square, the planning [...]

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