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ICLEI is very pleased to share the world-class line up of speakers who contributed to the Congress. Speakers were selected to represent a wide range of leading edge knowledge and experience related to urban sustainability. For more information on our speakers and their program contribution, please click on their pictures. 

David Bloom	Jeb Brugmann	David Cadman	Ray Danyluk	Martha Delgado Peralta
Bärbel Dieckmann	Adam Fenech	Amy Fraenkel	George Greene	Gustav Grob
Hironori Hamanaka	Nigel Jollands	Stephen Kabuye	Richard Littlemore	Stephen Mandel
Imma Mayol Beltrán	Peter Newman	David Pearson	Nola-Kate Seymoar	Pavan Sukhdev
Mathis Wackernagel	Alex Wong

 

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Prof. David Bloom, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

David Bloom is an economist and demographer, currently serving as the Director of the Harvard University Program on Global Demography and Aging and the Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Professor Bloom has published over 200 articles and books in the fields of economics and demography. He has been honored with a number of distinctions, including fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Galbraith Award for quality teaching in economics. He was also a Fulbright Scholar in India, and a scholar in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation during the academic year 1989-1990.

Professor Bloom has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Asian Development Bank.
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Program Contributions:
‘Facing an Urban World”-  Tuesday 16 June 2009
Presentation: Demography and Health Scenarios

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Jeb Brugmann
Urban Strategy Expert, Founder of ICLEI and Member of the ICLEI Advisory Council, Toronto

Jeb Brugmann is a Founding Partner of The Next Practice (TNP), helping companies, local governments, NGOs and civic organizations develop the detailed new practices they need to implement their strategies. For 25 years, he has been a leading practitioner in devising locally-responsive solutions for government, business, and international development agencies. In 1989-90, Brugmann organized ICLEI's founding World Congress at the United Nations, and served as ICLEI'€™s founding Secretary General from 1990-2000.

His work has ranged the fields of economic and new business development, urban development, transportation and infrastructure, energy and climate change, rural development, refugees and disaster reconstruction. Some of the other initiatives that Brugmann has pioneered include:

--The Local Agenda 21 initiative, launched at the 1992 UN Earth Summit and involving more than 6500 local communities to prepare local measures to address their sustainable development priorities.

--The Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, a program in alliance with multiple national governments and the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, involving more than 800 cities, in a uniform process to identify and implement local measures for GHG emission reductions.

His initiatives have been officially commended by the UN General Assembly, by three UN Summits, and he has received awards from the European Environment Agency, the King of Sweden, the Princes' Trust (of Denmark and Portugal), and by major cities around the world. He is a faculty member of the University of Cambridge (UK) Programme for Sustainability Leadership.

Program Contributions:
‘Facing an Urban World”-  Tuesday 16 June 2009
Presentation: “Welcome to the Urban Revolution”

‘Global Scenarios: Challenges ahead for Cities’ - Wednesday 17 June 2009
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David Cadman
Deputy Mayor of Vancouver, Canada and ICLEI President

David Cadman is the president of ICLEI, and the Deputy Mayor of Vancouver. David is a three-term Vancouver City Councillor, who was first elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2005 and 2008. He has served for six years as a Councillor with COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors. He represented Vancouver on the Greater Vancouver Regional District and Metro Vancouver board of directors, serving on both the Land Use and Transportation; and Environment and Energy committees.

A social and environmental activist for over 30 years, he has served as the President of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC). He has also served at the national and international level of the United Nations Association, and was awarded the United Nations Peace medal and United Nations 50th Anniversary medal.

Program Contribution:
Opening Plenary - Welcome & Introduction

 

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Ray Danyluk
Minister of Municipal Affairs, Alberta

Ray Danyluk was elected to his third term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lac La Biche-St. Paul on March 3, 2008. On March 12, 2008 he was sworn in as Minister of Municipal Affairs.

Before his election to the Alberta Legislature Mr. Danyluk represented and served the community in many municipal and volunteer capacities. Mr. Danyluk’s work has been recognized through several different municipal, education and community service awards. Mr. Danyluk has farmed in the Elk Point area with his family for over 30 years.

Program Contribution:
Opening Plenary - Welcome & Introduction

 

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Michel Delebarre
President, Metropolitan Council Of Dunkerque, France
First Vice-President, Committee of the Regions of the European Union

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Martha Delgado Peralta
Environment Secretary, Mexico City, ICLEI Executive Committee

Delgado has served as the Secretary of the Environment for Mexico City since 2006.  She is responsible for setting up the City’s Climate Action Plan. This Plan undertakes specific actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the ultimate goal of making Mexico City the greenest city in Latin America.

Mrs. Delgado has spent twenty years working in leadership positions dedicated to promoting sustainable development and civic responsibility, including the Unión de Grupos Ambientalistas, the Instituto Nacional de Ecología, and the Organization Presencia Ciudadana Mexicana.  She is responsible for developing and implementing the Non-Motorized Transportation Program, which promotes the use of bicycles as sustainable and suitable means of transportation.  She was the General Coordinator of the Green Consultancy, an unprecedented exercise through which the city government asked for citizen’s opinions about the necessary changes to environmental, transportation, and natural resources usage policies.

 

Program Contribution:
‘Partnerships for our Future Work’- Thursday 18 June 2009
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Bärbel Dieckmann
Chairperson, World Mayors Council on Climate Change, Mayor of Bonn, Germany

In 1994, Ms Dieckmann was elected Mayor of the City of Bonn. She was re-elected at the local elections in North-Rhine Westphalia twice in 1999 and in 2004.

Her term of office has been profoundly marked by the successful structural transformation of Bonn, the former capital of Germany, into a hub of international, sustainable and scientific activities; the continuous commitment to the Rio ’92 objectives and to the Millennium goals, promoting climate protection, sustainable development, and responsible consumption; the consolidation of the economic, social and ecological foundations of the city; the targeted development of full time schools, child care, and youth activities; and last but not least, the consolidation of the public finances in order to preserve the municipal ability to act.

Program Contribution:
Opening Plenary - Welcome & Introduction

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Adam Fenech,
Climatologist, Associate Director, Adaptation & Impacts Research, Environment Canada

Dr. Adam Fenech is a climatologist at Environment Canada who has been working on climate change issues for over 22 years. His current research activities include rapid assessment of climate change impacts, climate extremes at protected areas, and validating community observations of climate with the scientific record. He has worked at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University on global atmospheric issues, teaches annually at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and maintains a climate research lab at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many scientific papers, and editor of 5 major books on climate change over the past 5 years. Dr. Fenech shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded for his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Program Contribution:
Presentation: Biodiversity Scenarios

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Amy Fraenkel
Director and Regional Representative, Regional Office for North America, UN Environment Programme

Amy Fraenkel is the Regional Representative for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Director of the UNEP Regional Office for North America. Ms. Fraenkel has more than 20 years of experience in environmental and maritime law and policy in the United States government, inter-governmental organizations, and the private sector.  She joins UNEP from the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation where she served as Senior Counsel of the Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee.  Ms. Fraenkel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Grinnell College, a Law Degree from Harvard, and a French language certificate from l’Institut Catholique de Paris.

Program Contribution:
‘Partnerships for our Future Work’- Thursday 18 June 2009
Presentation: “Carbon-Neutral Cities”

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Hironori Hamanaka
President of IGES, Chair of ICLEI Japan office, Professor of Keio University, Japan

Hironori Hamanaka is a Professor at Keio University in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and before this was the Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs at the Ministry of the Environment. He is currently a Chair for the ICLEI Japan Office, and Member of the Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). He has served with the Government of Japan for more than 35 years, mostly in the field of environmental policies, before he left in 2007.

Over the last 9 years, he has devoted his administrative career to intergovernmental negotiations in areas including: the Kyoto Protocol and its implementing rules; major agreements in the field of sustainable development, such as the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002; and the development of national policies to implement international agreements, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. Based on his professional career, he was elected and served as Co-chair of the Compliance Committee under the Kyoto Protocol and Chair of its Facilitative Branch until March 2008.

Program Contribution:
‘Partnerships for our Future Work’- Thursday 18 June 2009
Presentation: “Research and Knowledge for Local Sustainable Development”

 

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Nigel Jollands
Principal Administrator, International Energy Agency, France

Dr. Nigel Jollands's career spans 15 years in energy, resource management and economic analysis fields. In November 2006 he took up a post with the International Energy Agency where he is the Principal Administrator in the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division. This role includes leading the IEA’s energy efficiency policy analysis, coordinating the IEA’s energy efficiency advice to the G8 under the Gleneagles Plan of Action, co-ordinating the Agency’s Energy Efficiency Working Party and participating in In-depth Reviews of member country energy policies. Nigel is currently also leading the IEA’s work on energy in cities and a project on energy efficiency and governance.

Nigel was previously Principal Ecological Economist in the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics (NZCEE) at Landcare Research. He has also held posts in New Zealand as Senior Lecturer at Massey University, as a policy analyst in Wellington at various Ministries (Ministry of Commerce; Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and Ministry for the Environment). He has published numerous journal articles and contributed to several books in the area of energy efficiency and ecological economics.

Program Contribution:
‘Global Scenarios: Challenges ahead for Cities’ - Wednesday 17 June 2009
Presentation: Energy Scenarios

 

 

 

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Stephen Kabuye
Mayor, Entebbe Uganda and ICLEI Vice President

Mayor Stephen Kabuye served as the Vice President of ICLEI Executive Committee for the period 2006—2009. He holds a B.Sc degree in Public Administration and a Masters Degree in Development Studies. He also holds several on-the-job Certificates in Urban and Local Government Management, Strategic Management and Environmental Planning and Management.

Mayor Kabuye has served in senior leadership positions in Public Service Organizations, National Local Government Organizations and Regional Bodies. Since 1997, he has been team leader and is now Honorary President of the Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities Cooperation (LVRLAC), an Organization focusing on the sustainable resource usage of the Lake Victoria, first as its founding Chairman and lately as its Honorary President.
He is also the current Chair of the Urban Authorities Association of Uganda an umbrella Organization that brings together leaders of different urban centers in Uganda, to face the challenges of urbanization.  Mayor Kabuye is an Ex-Officio member of the Executive Committee for the coming 2009-2012 term. 

Programme Contribution:
Opening Plenary - Welcome & Introduction
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Richard  Littlemore
Strategist and Senior writer, Hoggan and Associates

Mr. Littlemore spent 20 years in daily newspapers (the Ottawa Citizen, the Winnipeg Tribune, the Vancouver Sun), before turning his hand in 1995 to freelance journalism and public affairs. He wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change in 1996, was vice-chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Air Quality Committee in 1996 and 1997 and sat as a delegate to the Canadian government's (failed) Kyoto Implementation Process from 1997 to 1999.

Richard is a regular speech writer for many business and academic leaders and is a senior counsellor and the lead writer at James Hoggan and Associates.

Richard Littlemore has been trained by Al Gore as part of The Climate Project, an initiative designed to educate the public about climate change.

Program Contribution:
‘Urban Solutions for Tomorrow ’- Wednesday17 June 2009
Chair

 

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Stephen Mandel
Mayor of Edmonton

Serving Alberta's Capital City, Mayor Stephen Mandel has led the City of Edmonton since October 2004.

Mayor Mandel is a strong advocate for Alberta municipalities, ensuring they receive a fair share of funding to pay for vital infrastructure and community services.As Mayor, Stephen is a steadfast steward of numerous green initiatives and remains committed to preserving Edmonton's reputation as a global environmental leader.

Before running for public office, Mayor Mandel was an accomplished businessman bringing 30 years of private sector experience to City Hall.   As President of Mandel Group, he was involved in business development, residential and commerical real estate development, construction, as well as operations of hotels and sports enterprises.

Program Contribution:
Opening Plenary - Welcome & Introduction

 

 

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Imma Mayol Beltrán
Deputy Mayor, City of Barcelona, ICLEI Executive Committee

Imma Mayol i Beltran  is a politician for Catalonia Greens Initiative. Mrs. Mayol is the third Deputy Mayor of Barcelona City Council.

She holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Barcelona and was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 1992 to 1999, where she headed the first application of ICV-EUiA the Barcelona City Council.

As a councilor, she holds the positions of Chairperson of the Commission on Sustainability, Urban Services and Environment, President of ICV-municipal group EUiA of the Board of Spokespersons, President of the Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens in Barcelona, and Minister of Infrastructure for Barcelona.

Program Contribution:
‘ICLEI’s 2006-2009 Program Implementation Report’- Sunday 14 June 2009

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Peter Newman
Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)

Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and is on the Board of Infrastructure Australia that is funding infrastructure for the long term sustainability of Australian cities. Author of 'Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems' (2007), ‘Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change’ (2009), and ‘Green Urbanism Down Under’. In 2001-3 Peter directed the production of Sustainability Strategy in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in Western Australia, one of the first state sustainability strategy in the world.

In 2004-5 he was a Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney advising the government on planning issues. In 2006/7 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville where he wrote his new books. In Perth, Peter is best known for his work in saving, reviving and extending the city’s rail system.

Peter invented the term ‘automobile dependence’ to describe how we have created cities where we have to drive everywhere. For 30 years since he attended Stanford University during the first oil crisis he has been warning cities about preparing for peak oil. Peter’s book with Jeff Kenworthy 'Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence' was launched in the White House in 1999. He was a Councillor in the City of Fremantle from 1976-80 where he still lives.

Program Contribution:
Urban Solutions for Tomorrow - Wednesday 17 June 2009
Presentation: Designing our Future Cities Now

Public Presentation, Thursday 18th June 2009
Resilient Cities: Responding to the Crash, Climate Change and Peak Oil

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David Pearson
Chair of the Ontario Expert Panel on Climate Change Adaptation

Dr. David Pearson is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University. The former project director for Science North, David was the host of “Understanding the Earth” (TV Ontario) and “Down to Earth” (MidCanada TV) and CBC Northern Ontario’s “Radio Lab” (1982-1997).

He received the Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada for promotion of the Earth Sciences in Canada in 2001 and the McNeil medal for science communication from the Royal Society of Canada in 2003.

Program Contribution:
‘Global Scenarios: Challenges ahead for Cities’ - Wednesday 17 June 2009
Presentation: Climate Change Scenarios

 

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Nola-Kate Seymoar
President & CEO, International Centre for Sustainable Cities (ICSC)

Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar has been the President and CEO of the International Centre for Sustainable Cities since 1999. In 2004, she founded the Sustainable Cities: PLUS Network – a learning network of over 40 cities, communities and regions devoted to integrated long-term planning.

Dr. Seymoar's career has spanned four sectors - public policy (as a senior executive in the Government of Canada), academia (as a university professor and counsellor), business, and non-government organizations (as Chair of "Smart Risk", the Canadian Injury Prevention Foundation, and a member of The Centre for Days of Peace). In addition to ICSC, she has headed several NGOs including: We the Peoples: 50 Community Awards, an international community awards program in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations; and ECO-ED - a World Congress and Trade Show in follow up to the Earth Summit.

In addition to acting as speaker and lecturer, Dr. Seymoar was a recipient of a "Global Citizen Award" in 1995 and received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002.

Program Contribution:
‘Partnerships for our Future Work’- Thursday 18 June 2009
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Pavan Sukhdev
Leader of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative; Study leader for ‘The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity’ (TEEB), London, UK; Head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets Business in India

Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank AG, based in London, having joined this division in India in 1994. His assignments have included building a leading financial markets business for the bank in India, managing the Bank’s money markets trading and liquidity across Asia-Pacific, being COO for the Bank’s Asian Global Markets business from Singapore, and being COO for the Bank’s global Emerging Markets business based in London.

Pavan was appointed “Study Leader” for a global study on the Economics of Ecosystem Degradation and Biodiversity Loss. This report intends to for Ecosystem and Biodiversity what the “Stern Review” did for Climate Change. The interim report was presented at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of the Convention for Biological Diversity at Bonn on 29th of May, 2008.

Pavan pursues his interest in environmental protection in India as a Board member of the Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), India, since 1998. He also set up a model rainforest restoration and eco-tourism project in Queensland, Australia.

 

 

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Mathis Wackernagel
Executive Director of the Global Footprint Network

Mr. Wackernagel is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network, an international non-profit organization dedicated to making ecological limits central to decision-making everywhere. By developing methodological standards, coordinating research, and providing decision-makers with robust national resource accounts, Global Footprint Network is helping the human economy operate within the Earth’s ecological capacity.

Mathis has worked on sustainability issues on six continents and lectured at more than 100 universities. He is an adjunct faculty member at SAGE of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, a 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of US Society for Ecological Economics.

Program Contribution:
‘Global Scenarios: Challenges ahead for Cities’ - Wednesday 17 June 2009
Presentation: “Peak Everything – Let’s Face it All”, will look at scenarios of what future local communities may be facing and provide a proposal for an approach to global-local sustainability.

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Alex Wong
Senior Director, Head of Center for Global Industries, WEF

Alex has a Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has worked as an engineer for General Motors, a Senior Manager for Strategic Services at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), and has served on the board of various non-profit organizations. He is Senior Director of the Head of Center for Global Industries at the World Economic Forum since 2000.

Program Contributions:
‘Parnerships for our Future Work”-  Thursday 18 June 2009
Presentation: Business-City Cooperation for Sustainable Development