Speakers

Executive Director of Despacio

International Relations of the Coordination Unit of the Strategic Planning Council of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mayor of Banda Aceh

Mayor of Guangzhou, Co-President of Metropolis

UCLG Culture Commitee

President of Association of Authorities and Autonomous Regions of Sao Tomé & Principe (AARA/STP)

Mayor of Xi’an

Scientific Project Officer,  DG Joint Research Centre Directorate B – Growth and Innovation Territorial Development Unit of the European Commission (EC) Representative of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Group Coordinator of Social and Inclusive Business of French Development Agency (AFD)

President of Rwanda Local Government Association (RALGA)

Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics

SALGA

Acting Head of Department - Safer Cities Unit, eThekwini Municipality

Activist

President of the Republic of South Africa

Deputy Mayor of Rome

Director of UN Disaster Risk Reduction Office

CEO of Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)

Chairman of the Moscow City Duma

President of United Councils and Cities of Cameroon (CVUC)

Mayor of Lopera

State Secretary for International Relations of the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery

DG REGIO, European Commision

Student of Law of University of Ghana