Mar 05, 2018
Annabelle Selldorf is the principal of Selldorf Architects, a 70-person architectural design practice that she founded in New York City 1988. The firm creates public and private spaces that manifest a clear and modern sensibility to enduring impact. Cultural and Institutional clients include the Frick Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and Neue…
Mar 05, 2018
Manuela Carmena Castrillo has been Mayor of Madrid since 2015. She is a former lawyer and emeritus judge of the Spanish Supreme Court. She has represented Spain in The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations. She also carried out international legal cooperation work in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Guatemala and the…
Mar 05, 2018
Azra Jafari served as the first female Mayor in Afghanistan from 2008-2014, after being appointed Mayor of Nili by President Hamid Karzai. She is an author, constitutional jurist, magazine editor, teacher, trained midwife, politician and an advocate for women’s and human rights in Afghanistan.
Mar 05, 2018
Susana Torre is an architect, critic and educator based in New York City and Carboneras, Spain. Her career has combined theoretical concerns with the actual practice of building, and architectural and urban design with teaching and writing from a feminist perspective.
Mar 05, 2018
First elected as city councillor in Saint-Marie district in 2013, Projet Montréal members chose Valérie Plante to lead the party in 2016. Her contagious passion and energy has helped her rally people around her progressive vision. Deeply concerned about participatory democracy, Valérie Plante has a bold plan for Montreal centered on increased access to public…
Mar 02, 2018
Lianne Dalziel was elected as Mayor of Christchurch in October 2013, after serving for 23 years in the New Zealand Parliament, the last four terms as the Member of Parliament for Christchurch East. The Christchurch East electorate was severely affected by the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence and Mayor Dalziel played an important role in ensuring…
Mar 02, 2018
Esther Alder has been an Executive Council Member of the City of Geneva (representative of the Green party) and Chairwoman of the Department of social cohesion and solidarity of the City of Geneva since 2011. She was Mayor of Geneva from 2015 – 2016.
Mar 02, 2018
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman is an urban anthropologist and Director of THINK.urban, a research consultancy firm based in Philadelphia that works to improve our cities through the lens of anthropology. She has worked with organizations including Copenhagenize, Project for Public Spaces, and City ID to bring humanist philosophy into city planning and design. She is also the…
Mar 01, 2018
Chiara Corazza is currently the Managing Director of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. From 2002 to 2016, she was the Managing Director of the Greater Paris Investment Agency, an association in charge of attracting foreign investors to the Greater Paris Region and enhancing its attractiveness by mobilizing political and economic decision makers.…
Mar 01, 2018
Ana Nassar joined ITDP Brazil in November 2014 as Program Director. She is a Fellow of the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEED) international network since 2007. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as Environmental Manager for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and was responsible for the implementation of the competition’s environmental projects.…
Mar 01, 2018
Joshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Officer at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and…
Feb 28, 2018
Amanda Eaken is Director of Transportation and Climate in the Urban Solutions Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), where her work focuses on decarbonizing transportation in the United States. She is currently leading a groundbreaking analysis of the environmental impacts of the Transportation Network Companies Lyft and Uber, to help understand whether these…