People (fr)

Kathryn Travers is Development Agent for the Equal Participation of Women at Concertation Montréal. Kathryn also works as a global consultant on issues of gender, safety and urban development and governance and is the former Executive Director of Women in Cities International (WICI). She has a successful history of developing and managing programmes in Canada…

Geoffrey So is the Head of Policy & Partnerships at the Novartis Foundation. Geoffrey works across the portfolio of global health initiatives to identify and cultivate collaborations with traditional and non-traditional health partners. Through these multisector partnerships, the foundation aims to strengthen healthcare delivery and health systems in low-resourced settings, and generate data and evidence…

Peter is engaged with leading organizations and institutions seeking to transform their real estate portfolios to enhance health and business metrics. As Senior Vice President at IWBI, he leads a team driving the global growth and adoption of the WELL Building Standard, the first performance-based building standard to exclusively focus on human health. Peter is…

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014) now out in 15 languages. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University…

Charles Montgomery, Happy City’s founding principal, is an award-winning author, urbanist and leader of transformative experiments, research and interventions for wellbeing in cities. His acclaimed book, Happy City, Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, examines the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness. Collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum, Futurewise, Laboratorio para la…

Nina has a Bachelor´s degree in International Work Studies at the University of Gothenburg and has worked with both work-integration projects, as an educational consultant, within the civil society and as the CEO of Gyms in Malmö and Kingston, Jamaica. She studied, worked and lived in Kingston for 7 years which gives her an interesting…

Michèle Meier is, since 2012, the global head of corporate communications, marketing and social responsibility at Ivanhoé Cambridge. She has more than 25 years of experience in these functions within a large variety of sectors, including institutional real estate, loyalty marketing and data mining, aviation, telecommunications as well as the pharmaceutical industry. Before joining Ivanhoé…

Poonacha Machaiah has over 20 years of global experience as a successful serial entrepreneur and business leader in Fortune 100 companies. Poonacha is among the new breed of emerging social entrepreneurs who are using approaches from the commercial world and employing technology to tackle social and environmental problems. Today he is levering his vast global…

Myung J. Lee is Executive Director of Cities of Service, a nonprofit that helps mayors build stronger cities by changing the way local government and citizens work together. More than 260 Cities of Service coalition cities in the Americas and Europe tap into the knowledge, creativity, and service of citizens to solve public problems together.…