Eleanor Mohammed RPP, MCIP is currently the General Manager of Integrated Growth and Infrastructure at the Town of Beaumont, Alberta. Having worked for the Government of Alberta, Stantec Consulting Ltd., and Leduc County, she has led a variety of provincial and municipal projects including the preparation of statutory documents, policy and guideline development, stakeholder engagement, subdivision management, and environmental planning. Eleanor has over five years of professional board experience. She has served as the President of the Alberta Professional Planners Institute and as a National Board of Directors Member for the Canadian Institute of Planners. Eleanor holds a Masters with Distinction in Town and Country Planning from the University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K. and has an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Environmental Management. She is not afraid to rise to any challenge and is a natural collaborative leader!

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Pat Fortini emigrated from Italy to Canada with his parents and sister at the age of six years old. He was first elected to serve on Brampton City Council in 2014, and was re-elected to office in 2018, to serve as Regional Council. Prior to entering Municipal politics, Pat was employed as a project contractor for a large firm and later left to establish his own company.

For 2018 term of Council at the City of Brampton, Pat has been elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of Public Works & Engineering, Vice-Chair of Planning and Development, Chair of Citizen Appointment, Chair of Governance and Operations and member of CAO Performance Review, Accessibility Advisory and Brampton Senior Citizen Committee.

At the Region of Peel for the 2018 term of Council, Pat has been elected to serve as the Vice-Chair for Public Works, Member of Waste Management, Accessibility and Policies and Procedures Committee.

During the 2014 term of Council, Pat also served as the Vice-Chair of Planning & Infrastructure, Member of Brampton School Traffic Safety Council, Accessibility Advisory Committee, Brampton Senior Citizen Council, Citizen Appointments Committee, Taxicab Advisory, GTAA Community Environment and Noise Advisory Committee.

Pat continues to play a significant role participating in events, volunteering, sponsoring and organizing several fundraisers within the community. Over the years, he has sponsored several youth and men's baseball and hockey teams and has donated his time to coaching youth soccer. He has been the Council Representative for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel and has continued to be awarded the Highest Fundraiser & Contributor of Peel Region. Pat is a very strong advocate for several Seniors Affiliated groups in Brampton and is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 609.

Pat takes a proactive approach to problem solving and has demonstrated leadership, experience and dedication to his community with a strong commitment to helping the residents of Wards 7 & 8. Pat has experienced firsthand the degree of dedication and hard work it takes to be an effective Community Leader and Councillor.

Pat and his wife Nicole have lived in Brampton for more than 25 years with their daughter Kristen.

Doug McCallum was elected to his fourth term as Mayor on October 20th, 2018. Mayor McCallum and his team are focused on delivering the initiatives residents have called for.

Immediately following the Inauguration Ceremony, Mayor and Council went straight to work by unanimously passing a motion to create the Surrey Police Department. Council also unanimously approved a motion to cancel the Surrey Newton Guildford Light Rail Transit project and to begin work on extending the existing SkyTrain network in Surrey from King George Station to Langley City.

Both of these major initiatives have been advancing rapidly. The Surrey Police Service is set to deploy its first cohort of officers this fall and the Surrey Langley SkyTrain line received full funding earlier this summer and the project will be going out to tender in 2022.

Mayor McCallum’s substantive history of service to the City speaks to his determination and drive to achieve meaningful results for Surrey residents. Elected to Surrey City Council in 1993, he served as Chair of the Finance Committee and sat as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Library Board. In his previous tenure as Mayor, he succeeded in keeping property taxes low for Surrey residents and left the city in a solid financial position with a $300 million dollar surplus and no debt.

Mayor McCallum’s record of public service extended beyond Surrey to philanthropic and provincial government activities. Most notably, he has served as Chair of TransLink, Chair of Peace Arch Hospital and as a member of the BC Buildings Corporation’s Boardi of Directors.

Adam Zábranský (* December 28, 1993, Prague) is a pirate councilor of the capital. m. Prague for housing and transparency. Since 2014, he has been a member of the City Council. of Prague. After the municipal elections in 2018, he became a councilor for transparency and housing (focusing on the administration of the city's housing stock). He has lived in Prague since birth. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University, previously studied at the Jan Kepler Grammar School for four years and before that at the Mensa Grammar School. He has been contributing to the Czech Wikipedia since the age of fourteen . He has been a member of Pirates since 2012.

In the Prague City Council in 2014-2018, he worked at various times in the committees for spatial planning, sports and leisure, legislation and anti-corruption measures or in the control committee. He won a precedent dispute over access to information before the Constitutional Court against Pražská plynárenská, revealed the clientelistic network of CSSD entrepreneurs in municipal companies, and drew attention to the exorbitant remuneration of traffickers in municipal companies and unfavorable city leases. In 2017–2019 he was the chairman of the Pirates' Representative Club. In 2018 he was the 1st Vice-Chairman of the Regional Association of Pirates in Prague. He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Pražská plynárenská Holding, as to save public funds (he does not receive any remuneration for his position).

In his free time he plays volleyball or badminton, strengthens, reads popular science literature, listens to podcasts and self-educates. For ethical reasons, he became a vegetarian at the age of eighteen and a vegan at the age of nineteen. In addition, he is also an ambassador of the Plant Plant project , which seeks to expand the range of plant dishes in shops and restaurants. Under the Giving What We Can call, it pledged to devote at least 15% of its net income to efficient non-profit organizations. Since December 2018, he has registered these donations in a transparent account.

Dr. Pamela Robinson MCIP RPP is a professor and the Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson. Throughout her career as a planner her research and practice have focused on complex, emergent challenges that Canadian communities face. Her current research focuses on the question: who is planning the Canadian smart city? Since 2010, Pamela has written a regular column for Spacing Magazine where she writes about technology and civic engagement in Canadian cities. Robinson recently served as a member of Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel and was an inaugural member of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum for the Government of Canada’s Open Government Partnership work. In 2020 Pamela received the inaugural Canadian Institute of Planners President’s Award: Academic. She is an Advisor on the Toronto Public Library’s Innovation Council and serves on the Board of Directors for the Metcalf Foundation. 

Dr. Mosleh Duhoky has been the President of the University of Duhok since 2012. Prior to this, he served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Duhok in 2001-2010. During his entire career in Academia, Dr. Duhoky served at different universities in Kurdistan Region under different academic titles. Dr. Duhoky has been elected a member of the Board of Directors at the International Association of Universities (IAU) in 2016. He also served as a consultant and a team leader at FAO representation in Iraq.

Dr. Duhoky has published more than 40 academic articles in different national and international journals. Also, he writes articles related to higher education. He was promoted professor in 2000.

He earned his BSc in Agriculture in 1976, and his MSc in Plant Physiology in 1978 at University of Sulaimani – Iraq. Dr. Duhoky completed his PhD degree in Cytology at the University of Silesia – Poland in 2000.

Career Profile

Lecturer (Temporary) 01-10-1990 Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Lecturer (Permanent) 19-01-1995 Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Reader 19-01-2006 Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Associate Professor 19-01-2009 Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Professor 30-06-2013 Department of Geography, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Tristan is a Senior Associate in the Municipal Affairs practice at Sussex. Tristan monitors policy and political activity at Toronto City Hall and advises municipal clients across Canada on government relations strategies that deliver results.

Over the past 13 years, he has worked on numerous campaigns and contributed to many political advocacy initiatives at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of government. His work included initiating commercial tax policy reforms, and advocating for land use planning policy reviews, as well as immigration regulation changes. His network reflects a diverse set of stakeholders, including many of the most prominent progressive advocates working in the Toronto area.

While at Toronto City Hall Tristan spent nearly nine years working for City Councillors, eight of those for Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, where he served as Chief of Staff from 2018 through 2019. During this tenure his areas of focus included planning and development matters, tax policy, and leading various special projects that had both downtown Toronto and city-wide impacts.

Tristan holds an BA (Hons) in Political Science from Mount Allison University, a MA in Political Science from the University of Waterloo, and is a Certified Associate in Project Management with the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Antonia Cornaro earned her Master's Degree in Urban Planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She grew up in Brussels, Vienna, Teheran, Cairo and later lived and studied in Paris, New York and London.

She has 25 years of experience working as an urban and transport planner in the public and private sector, such as for the City of New York, for PB/WSP (London), for the Austrian Institute of Regional Planning (OIR, Vienna) and EBP (Zürich). Since 2010 she has been employed by Amberg Engineering in Regensdorf as an Expert on Underground Space and Business Developer.

She is also the co-​chair of ITACUS, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association's (ITA) Committee on Underground Space (ITACUS). She focuses on urban underground space with the aim on increasing the mobility, liveability, and resilience of urban areas. She is passionate about cities and global and sustainable development, and has presented and published extensively on this subject, including the book, co-​authored with Han Admiraal, «Underground Spaces Unveiled: Planning and creating the cities of the future

Prof. Peña leads the Urban Research and Action Group at the Faculty of Architecture at Havana´s Technological University-CUJAE where he researches and teaches urban topics. Research privileges transdisciplinar approaches. Current projects are www.urban-know.com (DPU,UCL), @GREAT (Uni.Lancaster-Cali), Productive Urban Landscapes, MAS-Havana (UCL-CUJAE), GCSMUS (TU-Berlin-CUJAE) among others. He also leads the Master on Planning and is an expert and advisor for the local planning authority.

LI Xiangning focuses on the research of architecture and urban development in contemporary China. He is a member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics, and the Vice President and Secretary-General of Committee of Architectural Criticism of Architectural Society of China. He has published widely on contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism in international architectural magazines including Architectural Review, A+U, Architectural Record, The Plan, Arquitectura Viva, Space, Domus, and Volume.

LI Xiangning has been working with international museums and institutes, including Milan Triennale and Goethe Institute, curating exhibitions on Chinese architecture. He is the curator of the Pavilion of China at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, academic director and curator of Busan International Environment Art Festival. He is also academic director and curator of 2013 Shenzhen/Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale, curator of Shanghai Westbund 2013 Biennale, and curator for 2015/2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season.

He has been a jury member to many international awards and competitions including Mies van der Rohe Award the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. He is the editor in chief of the Architecture China, and serves as editorial board member of many academic journals such as Architecture Asia(Journal of Architects Regional Council Asia),The PLAN and Le Visiteur (Journal of Société Française des Architectes).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dean, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 12/2004 - present

Visiting Scholar at GSD, Harvard, 09/2000 - 08/2001

Doctoral Advisor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 04/1999 - present

Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 08/1998 – present

Director of Dept. of Architecture and Associate Dean, School of Architecture, 11/1997 – 11/2004

Chair of Architecture Design Studio and Assoc. Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 07/1996 – 08/1998

Lecturer, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 03/1993 – 07/1996

Dr. Yves has been a researcher and co-researcher on four SSHRC grants in the areas of urban geography, innovation, and digital skills. He has presented and published internationally on innovation and economic development, most recently in how regions develop value and jobs during periods of technological disruptions. He also works with municipal, regional and provincial governments in the area of smart cities, leveraging technology to address sustainable planning and community transportation needs. He has chaired New Brunswick’s inclusive and sustainable transportation strategy and the Acadian Peninsula’s sustainable community transportation network. He was a visiting scholar with the Fraunhofer Institut’s smart city initiative and has studied behavioural insights to policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  He holds a PhD in Urban planning (regional development) from UCLA, masters from Edinburgh and Oxford universities, and a BA from Moncton. He has also worked 10 years in the private and public sector, namely with Microsoft and the Canadian parliament.

Professor Subhash Anand is a professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has teaching and research experience of more than 25 years. He has authored and edited 7 books, including Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, Water Science and Sustainability, and Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism, published by Springer. He has also published more than 60 research papers, articles and chapters in various books and journals of national and international repute. He led the Indian delegation to Hiroshima University, Japan under the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science and Indian Council of Social Science Research (JSPS-ICSSR) joint research programme.

 Prof Anand has specialised in urban solid waste management and planning, sustainable cities, environmental issues, and geoheritage. He framed the geography syllabus for many universities including University Grants Commission (UGC) National Learning Outcome Curriculum Framework syllabus. He has supervised 13 Ph.D. and M.Phil. research scholars and numerous M.A. students on various geographical critical issues. He is a vice-chair of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Geoheritage and an associate editor-in-chief of International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks (IJGP, Elsevier). He is joint editor of The Association for Geographical Studies (AGS), and vice-president of Indian Geographical Society (IGS). He has travelled widely and has participated in several international conferences and delivered many lectures in different countries. He has done successful training UGEC & SARCS Advanced Training Workshop on Urban Spatial Planning in response to Climate Change in Asia; APN-MAIRS workshop on Development of an Integrated Climate Change Impact Assessment Tool for Urban Policy Makers, and Commonwealth Geographical Bureau (CGB) workshop on Human Consequences of Climate Change. He has been honoured with many prestigious awards during his career and member in various national and international committees.

Professor Ya Ping Wang is Director of GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), and Chair in Global City Futures at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

His research focuses on housing, urban planning and development, urban transformations, living conditions of rural to urban migrants in China and developing countries. He is the author/co-author of ‘Housing Policy and Practice in China’ (Macmillan), ‘Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China’ (Routledge), and ‘Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanizing World’ (Routledge).

Ya Ping’s research have been supported by many UK and international organisations, including UKRI, ESRC, DFID, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He is the principal investigator for two major UK-China collaborative projects on urban transformations from 2015 to 2019. Ya Ping is a Chartered Member of Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) and Fellow of Social Science Academy (FAcSS). Before joining University of Glasgow in 2013, he was professor in urban studies at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Han Admiraal is an independent consultant for Enprodes and is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is a former professor of Underground Space Use at CARUS, the Centre for Applied Research Underground Space. Han Admiraal works as a consultant on underground space related matters, including tunnel safety. His approach is that safety dilemmas can only be solved through dialogue. Han is a tunnel safety officer for the ‘Dordtse Kil Tunnel’, a road tunnel near the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands and has more than 25 years of experience in the field of public infrastructure.

Internationally Han is active in the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association – ITA, as chairman of the ITA Committee on Underground Space (ITACUS).