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| Carlos Bustamante Anchondo is the elected Mayor for the Municipality of Tijuana.
He is a business man from Tijuana, he has occupied numrous leadership positions in social development, industry, education, as well as political. He is a member of the San Diego and Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Japan Consulting Institute. In July 2010 he was elected Mayor of Tijuana. |
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| Alioune Badiane is the director of the Regional Office for Africa and the Arab States, UN-Habitat Kenya. He studied at the Senegal National School of Economics, graduated at Laval University, Canada, and post-graduated at the Department of Urban Affairs, City University of New York. He has 30 years of working experience in economic planning, housing, urban development and environment. He joined UN-Habitat in 1991. |
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|  Marcello Balbo is a professor of urban planning at Università Iuav di Venezia where he has headed the Master's Programme in "Urban Development and Reconstruction." His main focus is on urban issues in developing countries. Project leader of the UNESCO Chair "Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants: Urban Policies and Practice," he has directed several research projects on urban policies and international migration concerning different countries of the South, including the 'Experimental Observatory on International Migrations in Urban Areas of Latin America - MIUrb/AL' and UN-Habitat research on "Urban Policies and Practices Addressing International Migration." He has authored several articles on the right to the city of international migrants and has edited the book International Migrants and the City. | | | |
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| Ariel Cano is the director general National Housing Commission, Mexican Government. He was educated in Mexico and Columbia University, New York, where he specialized un Applied Statistics and Financial Management. In 1998, was appointed Director of Risk Management at BBVA Bancomer, in 2002, his public career initiated as Financial Risk at the National Workers Housing Fund (INFONAVIT). |
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 Tony Chan a Certified Practicing Planner (Australia), has a Bachelor’s degree in Town Planning (Honours) and a Master’s degree in Built Environment (Sustainable Development) from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is also a LEED Accredited Practitioner and has accumulated over 14 years of project experiences in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China and India. He was a founding member of Arup’s Planning team in Shanghai and his work focuses primarily on the holistic urban development, urban design and project management processes. His expertise lies in integrating master planning and urban design with associated strategies (Energy, Water, Transportation, Waste etc.) to address natural resource consumption and is currently project managing various eco-city type projects around China. Tony has presented at various conferences in China and around the region. His new areas of interest include industrial ecology, new technologies in renewable energy and the mitigation of climate change effects. |
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 Don Chen joined the Ford Foundation in 2008 and he works on reforming the rules that shape municipal and regional growth by pursuing integrated approaches to affordable housing, public transportation, land use and community planning. His grant making supports institutions working to reduce poverty and provide economic opportunities for low-income people through equitable development in US metropolitan areas. Don, who holds a master's degree from the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a bachelor's degree in political science from Yale, was the founding executive director and CEO of Smart Growth America, where he led efforts to create the National Vacant Properties Campaign and the Transportation for America Campaign, and orchestrated a merger with the Growth Management Leadership Alliance. He has also authored a number of publications on the effects of urbanization on the environment. |
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| Eduardo Feuerhake is an Architect at UN-Habitat, Chile.
He studied architecture and urban planning in the University of Chile. He has travelled all over the world and designed many architectural projects in Chile, where he has also been teaching. He is Director of the Moden Art Museum of Chiloe and has been working as consultant for UN-Habitat in Mozambique and Sudan since 2003. |
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 Richard Fung is a Trinidadian-born, Canadian-based video artist and cultural critic. His award winning tapes, which include Chinese Characters, Sea in the Blood and Dirty Laundry, have been widely exhibited internationally, and his essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Richard is an associate professor at OCAD University in Toronto. | | | |
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 Francesca Gavin is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, Art Editor of Twin and a contributing editor at AnOther. She is the author of Street Renegades, which examines the intersection of fine art and street art in urban space, Hell Bound: New Gothic Art and Creative Space: The Urban Homes of Artists and Innovators. Her fourth book on 100 new artists is published in April 2011. She has written for publications including Vogue, Blueprint, TimeOut, wallpaper*, icon, The Guardian online, The Big Issue, Art Review and i-D. Gavin also has curated a number of group exhibitions, is currently the curator of the Soho House group and is working on a museum show for MU in Eindhoven. | | | |
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 Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the coordinator for Urban LandMark's regional programme. She was previously a Policy Analyst at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research and teaching interests are urbanisation in the global South, urban land markets, and public policy in developing countries. Her research also includes understanding the impact of migration in African cities. She worked for six years as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Centre for Policy Studies where she investigated the role of civil society in transitional political contexts, looking at leadership and governance in Africa, and in particular in Kenya. She also worked on local governance issues, particularly around the reform of local government in South Africa and in Africa generally. She was part of a team funded by the World Bank contracted to conduct a social assessment for the Rehabilitation of Basic Education Project in Sierra Leone which involved developing research tools for understanding the social dynamics of communities ravaged by the war in that country. In 2002 she was part of a team conducting a mid-term review of the United Nations Capacity Building Local Government Programme in South Africa, and involved in designing DFIDs local government support programme for the period 2002–07. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato was editor of the journal Development Southern Africa from 2005 to 2007. She is currently working on understanding urban land markets on the continent and, in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, is developing guides on urbanization in Africa for policy makers. | | | |
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| Dan Lewis is the chief of the disaster and post-conflict section, UN-Habitat, Kenya.
He has worked for UN-Habitat since 1997 based in Somalia, Kosovo and Nairobi. As a civil engineer and private consultant, he has worked in urban reconstruction and housing programmes in South Africa and Chile as well as with First Nations communities in his home region on Vancouver Island, Canada since 1987. |
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 Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is an architect, academic and novelist. She grew up in Ghana, West Africa was educated in Ghana and the UK. She completed her architectural training at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of London. She has taught in the UK, the USA and South Africa and is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at Westminster University. She has lectured and published widely on the subject of race, cultural identity and their relationship to architecture and is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She is the principal of her own design firm, Lokko Associates in Accra, Ghana, with several completed residential projects in Accra and Akosombo, Ghana and is currently a member of the African Centre for Cities, which looks critically at the challenges and opportunities facing African cities in the near and longterm future. Her second career, as a novelist, has seen the publication of five novels, three of which have been UK bestsellers. She currently divides her time between Johannesburg, South Africa; Accra, Ghana and London, UK. | | | |
| | Inês Magalhães is a sociologist and expert on management planning. She's worked with the Ministry of Cities since 2003 and is currently the National Housing Secretary. She has worked at the municipal level in participatory strategic planning and developed several actions in housing and urban development. | | | |
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| Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan is the Governor for the State of Baja California Mexico.He is an Economist, with a Masters Degree in Economics from the National Politecnic Institute. He was a Mayor for Tijuana (1995-1998), headedthe State Water Commission, In 2003 he was elected for Federal Congress and in 2007 he became Governor for the Baja California State. | | | |
| | Susan Parnell is an urban geographer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences and is the Director of the ‘CityLab’ at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities. Prior to that, she taught at the Wits University Geography Department (Johannesburg) and the School of Oriental African Studies (London). She is the author of over 80 academic papers, five edited volumes and two co-authored books. She is on the editorial boards of many specialist academic journals. Her early academic research was in the area of urban historical geography and focussed on the rise of racial residential segregation and the impact of colonialism on urbanisation and town planning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1994 and democracy in South Africa her work has shifted to contemporary urban policy research (local government, poverty reduction and urban environmental justice). She serves on a number of national and international advisory research panels relating to urban reconstruction. |
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|  Ramesh Ramanathan is Co-founder of Janaagraha. Ramesh has also been working in the Indian microfinance sector for close to a decade, with a special focus on urban microfinance. He is Chairman of Janalakshmi, an urban microfinance institution in India. Prior to these social initiatives, Ramesh worked with Citibank in New York and London. When he left to begin his social activities in India, he was MD and Head, European Corporate Derivatives, and a member of the Global Markets Leadership Team, collectively running a business with an annual revenue of over $1 billion. Ramesh has an MS in Physics from BITS Pilani, an MBA from Yale University, and a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) degree from the Association of Investment Management & Research (AIMR). | | | |
|  Vyjayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, New York. She works on cities after globalization, specifically in the intersections of urban planning, design, art, violence, and speculation in the articulation of the contemporary global city. She is the author of numerous articles on these topics and is currently working on a book manuscript titled The Speculative City. | | | |
| Sebastien Rauch is an Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. His main research objective is to provide a further understanding of the interactions between men and the environment, in terms of contamination and use of resources, and develop solutions based on this understanding. Because cities concentrate human activities, this research focuses on urban environment and systems. Sebastien’s research expertise lies within the areas of urban pollution, contaminated sites and trace element biogeochemistry. More recently he has been involved in research on sustainable urban development with coordination of the AGS Urban Futures Initiative. He is also the organizer of the Urban Environment Symposium series and has organized several workshops on urban development in Sweden and abroad. He has published 35 papers published in peer reviewed journals, edited two books and 10 book chapters since 1999.
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| Fabian Ribezzo is a Movie Director, UN- Habitat, Mozambique. He has produced most of his cinematographic and TV works in Italy between 1990 and 2005, obtaining 15 prizes for his short films. He represented Italy in the 52nd Cannes Festival as part of the "JKodak European New Talent" and has been making animations and documentaries in Mozambique since 2006. |
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 Cuauhtemoc Perez Roman is the chairman and chief executive officer of Urbi.
He holds a degree with honors in Architecture from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, serves as Chairman of the Board, Chief Excecutive Officer and Co-Founder of Urbi Desarrollos Urbanos SA de CV. He acts as Member of the Consulting Board of CANADEVI, TELMEX, and NAFIN and Bancomer. |
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 Alessandro Scotti is an Italian writer and photographer. He has worked in more than 25 countries for numerous publications, including Time Magazine, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Geo, Rolling Stone, Sportsweek, Wall Street Journal, Expresso, Magazin Literario, Wired, Stern, Courier International and Afrique Magazine. For six years, he covered the main international paths of narco-traffic for a worldwide journalistic investigation on illicit drug routes and dynamics. He has authored a number of books on his experiences as an investigative journalist and his feature stories were awarded in Italy, Germany and France. In 2005, Alessandro was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN-GIFT) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).
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 AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist in the broad sense that his work focuses on various powers, cultural expressions, governance and planning discourses, spaces and times in cities across the world. Simone is presently Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has taught at New School University, the University of Khartoum, University of Ghana, University of the Western Cape, University of the Witwatersrand, and the City University of New York, as well as working for several African NGOs, municipal governments and regional institutions, including the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. His key publications include In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan (University of the City) Yet to Come: Changing Urban Life in Four African Cities(Duke University Press,2004), and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads (Routledge, 2009). | | | |
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 Tuomas Toivonen is an independent architect and thinker. He is the founder of NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, a Helsinkibased practice operating in the joint fields of architecture, urbanism, strategy, design and communication. During his professional architectural career, he has also worked as a journalist, critic, curator, performing musician, producer and teacher. | | | |
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Max Fraad Wolff, is a macro strategy and international financial economist with over 8 years of experience. Max is an instructor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of The New School University, New York City. As a senior analyst at The Beryl Consulting group, Mr. Wolff contributes macro-economic insight and a wealth of independent research experience. Mr. Wolff did his graduate economics work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Max's work can be seen regularly featured in the Asia Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Russia Today, Al Jazeera, National Public Radio, Bloomberg News and other outlets.
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 Ana Marie Argilagos, Ana Marie Argilagos is the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) of the Office for International and Philanthropic Innovation (OIPI) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In this role, Ana Marie is overseeing the establishment and growth of OIPI as it looks outside HUD and the federal government to inform the work of HUD and Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) on the domestic level and serve as a potential model for other federal agencies. OIPI is charged with engaging partners in the international and philanthropic sectors to harness people, organizations, ideas and resources for the benefit of our communities and aligning our common efforts. Ana Marie is also responsible for establishing and fostering engagement with stakeholders in the nonprofit and for profit sectors, as well as across departments within HUD and the various federal agencies on comprehensive strategies for viable and livable communities. Prior to her position at HUD, Ana Marie lead efforts to build better futures for disadvantaged children and families in the U.S.-Mexico Border region and in Native American communities for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Before joining the Foundation in 2001, Ana Marie served as a Special Assistant at HUD, where she provided strategic direction for the President’s Interagency Task Force for the Economic Development of the Southwest Border, as well as HUD’s hurricane reconstruction efforts in Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to her appointment at HUD, Ana Marie worked as Special Assistant to the President of the National Council of La Raza; as Educational Programs Manager at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and as Deputy Director at AYUDA, a community-based legal clinic serving immigrants in Washington, DC. Ana Marie has over 20 years experience evaluating and implementing program and policy strategies. She has written and presented on a broad range of issues on community development; the role of philanthropy; collaborative community problem solving, strategic partnerships; participatory research methods, and measuring impact. Ana Marie holds a BA in International Relations from American University and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She lives in Washington DC with her daughter Alexia.
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 Lou Yongqi is Vice Dean of the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University in China. He has directed the design of a large number of architecture, urban design and exhibition design projects such as the United Nations Pavilion of World EXPO 2010, JINDAI School project of China and the Urban Design of UNSCO Heritage area of Wuyi City. He is currently leading many design research projects such as Chongming Sustainable Design Research Project which is supported by China National Nature Science Fund. Prof. Yongqi, who is a member of the Executive Board, Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media and an Advisory Board Member of Designskolen Kolding, Denmark, has published two books, “Tektao Files” (Tongji University Press, 2007) and “Environmental Design” (China Higher education Press, 2008), and many papers for various international and national design journals and conferences.
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