Mr. Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Secretary General, ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann is the Secretary General of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, with more than thousand members in 68 countries the largest international network of metropolises, cities, towns and regions dedicated to sustainable development.

He has an Engineering Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical University of Hannover, Germany and obtained a Magister Degree (Magister rerum publicarum) in Public Administration, University of Public Administration, Speyer, Germany. He has held positions in national and local government as well as an inter-municipal consultancy.

Mr. Otto-Zimmermann is member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Urban Management and alumni of HRH The Prince of Wales' Business & the Environment Programme, Cambridge, UK. He also has several board and advisory functions such as with the International Green Purchasing Network, the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, the World Economic Forum’s SlimCity initiative and the Forum’s Agenda Council for Urban Management.

He is author, editor, or co-editor of 11 books and hundreds of articles in various magazines on local environmental planning and management and non-motorized urban transport. In addition, he was a lecturer at over 200 congresses, conferences, symposia and training sessions and initiator and scientific director of congresses on sustainable cities, Local Agenda 21, local environmental management, environmental impact assessment, non-motorized urban transport and eco-procurement.