Cities: Engines of Transformational Change
Speakers
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Sue is a 2009 Skoll Awardee and a Schwab and Ashoka award-winning social entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in sustainable living, focused on our homes, cities and the products and services we use. Including the world-famous BedZED eco-village in London, where Sue lives. Sue and the team systematised their approach as “One Planet Living” which is freely available for anyone to use. Based on 10 principles and a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. There is now a global network of exemplary communities, and 10 million people living in places that have used One Planet Living. Sue draws on these inspiring examples to support policy change, for the built environment and through a formal role in the UN process to create the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At global social entrepreneur network Catalyst 2030 Sue helped secure a UN Resolution on the social and solidarity economy. Sue was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympics.
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Mayor, City of Cali, Colombia
Born in Cali, Colombia, in 1937
-Medical Doctor from Universidad del Valle
-Master of Science in Hygiene
-Doctor in Public Health from Harvard University
My career has spanned academic life, social development and public service:
ACADEMIA:
-Professor, Chair of department, Dean of the Medical School and President of UNIVALLE
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT:
-President of the Carvajal Foundation in Cali
-Creator of VALLENPAZ, a non-profit corporation currently restoring peace and economic prosperity in the conflict-ridden mountains of South-Eastern Colombia
PUBLIC SERVICE:
-Mayor of Cali 1992-1995
-City Council Member 2008-2011
-Re-elected Mayor in 2012, currently in office
Last year I was the first recipient of the ROUX PRICE, created by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (Seattle, WA) to acknowledge the use of the global burden of disease approach to develop intervention policies.
The Price acknowledged the use of reliable data to reduce Cali´s crime rates in 1993, Cali during the war between the Cartels; the same method has been successful in reducing crime at this time, when large criminal organizations are fighting over the territorial control of micro-traffic.
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Founder and President, The Global Parliament of Mayors Project
Benjamin R. Barber is a Senior Research Scholar at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Dr. Barber is the author of 17 books, including the classic Strong Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld and his new book If Mayors Ruled the World. Dr. Barber appears frequently in broadcast media and domestic and international news publications, and he consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the U.S. (President Bill Clinton, Governor Howard Dean) and around the world. He writes and speaks on a wide variety of questions connected to democracy and citizenship, including the arts, education, globalization, terrorism, and the new politics of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Deep Listening - Senior Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
Emily Kasriel is writing a book on Deep Listening, developing the approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College in London and previously as a Practitioner in Residence at the LSE. With the British Council and the BBC, she recruited 1000 people in 119 countries to train in Deep Listening and trains cohorts of leaders with the UK’s Forward Institute for responsible leadership. She is a journalist and has been a media executive at the BBC for many years, leading multiple high impact global projects as well as producing and reporting from five continents. Previously she has been a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, and hosts interviews. More on her website EmilyKasriel.com
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Peri’s founder, Alessandra Orofino, is an expert in mass communications and large-scale mobilization, boasting extensive experience in grassroots campaigning, as well as film and TV production. Alessandra served as Executive Director for 12 years of NOSSAS, Brazil’s largest membership-driven campaigning organization. Her outstanding contributions at NOSSAS earned recognition through the Obama Foundation fellowship program and the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation.
Additionally, Alessandra serves as the showrunner for Greg News, a highly acclaimed political satire show on HBO Latin America, and has also taken on the role of producer for two feature-length documentaries directed by Academy Award nominee Petra Costa.
Alessandra actively contributes to various boards and committees, including sitting on the Board of Trustees at Luminate Foundation.
