Patricia Canelas

Co-Chair of UEF4 Steering Committee

Departmental Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 

Guy Cormier

President and CEO of Desjardins Group

Margareta Cederfelt

Member of Parliament, City of Stockholm, Sweden

Dominique Hargreaves

Director, Sustainability, American Realty Advisors, United States

Mitchell Cohen

President and CEO, The Daniels Corporation, Canada

Sarah Keyes

CEO, ESG Global Advisors, Canada

Kamran Hassani-Espili

Executive Director of Urban Economy Forum, Canada

Jonathan Hackett

Co-Head for BMO Energy Transition Group & Head of Sustainable Finance, Bank of Montreal, Canada

Harley Gold

Partner and Managing Director, Peakhill Capital, Canada

Debbie Stewart

Vice President, Innovation and Partnerships at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Steering Committee Member of the World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Ana Bailão

Deputy Mayor, City Councillor, City of Toronto

Daniele Zanotti 

President & CEO of United Way Greater Toronto and Co-Chair of the ILEO Leadership Table, Canada

Roy Allan Jiménez Céspedes

Vice Minister of Housing and Human Settlements, Costa Rica 

Kristyn Wong-Tam

NDP MPP for Toronto-Center, Former Councillor, City of Toronto, Vice-Chair of the Toronto Board of Health and Chair of the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee, Canada 

Sandra Masters

Mayor of Regina, Canada

Brandon M. Scott

Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Eric Garcetti

Mayor of Los Angeles, California, United States

Patrick L. Wojahn

Mayor of College Park, Maryland, United States

Ravi S. Bhalla

Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Paulette Senior

CEO and President, Canadian Women’s Foundation, Canada

Reza Pourvaziry

Chair of Urban Economy Forum, Co-Director, the World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels, Canada

Francine Mbvoumbo

Chair & President, Mothers to Daughters

Mathieu Goetzke

Vice-President, Planning, Metrolinx

The Hon. Oscar Requena

Minister of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labour, and Local Government, Belize

Jim Kenney

Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Tim Keller

Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Sokhary Chau

Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Robert McDonough

Director of ESG and Regulatory Initiatives, Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC, United States

Hon. Matthew Green

Member of Parliament for Hamilton Centre, Canada

Jakub Mazur

Deputy Mayor, Wrocław, Poland, President of METRopolitan EXchange, and International Board Member of the World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Patrick Wood

Chief Financial Officer, DelphX Capital Markets Inc., Canada

Martin Kocher

Minister of Digital and Economic Affairs, Austria

Indranee Rajah

Second Minister for Finance and National Development, Singapore

Nihan Akyelken

Associate Professor at University of Oxford 

Rudiger Ahrend

Head of Economic Analysis, Data and Statistics Division, Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation

Erik Solheim

President, Green Belt and Road Institute, Former Minister of Environment Norway, Former UN Environment Executive Director

Ramin Keivani

Head of School of Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University The Moderator of this Session

Mike Labbe

CEO of Home Opportunities Non-Profit Corporation, Canada

Nick Mantas

Councillor, Scarborough-Agincourt, City of Toronto, Canada

Heela Omarkhail

Vice-President of Social Impact, The Daniels Corporation

Joe Mihevc 

Councilor of Spadina-Fort York, Canada

Rebecca Lowe 

Senior Reader, Canterbury Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Brad Bradford 

Councillor Beaches-East York, City of Toronto 

Sheran “Sharon” Palacio

Mayor of the City of Belmopan, Belize

Ricardo Rio

Mayor of Braga, Portugal

Maja Tait

Mayor of Sooke, British Columbia, Canada

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

Rubingisa Pudence

Mayor of Kigali, Republic of Rwanda

Joy Belmonte

Mayor of Quezon City, Philippines

Goran Matic

Co-Founder, Chaordic Design, Toronto, Canada

Harald Riedel

Deputy Mayor, Nuremberg, Germany

Sally Anne Capp

Lord Mayor, Melbourne, Australia

Wendy Cukier

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Diversity Institute Founder, Academic Director of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub and Research Lead of the Future Skills Centre, Ryerson University, Canada

Nicolas Richard

President and Chief Executive Officer of Desjardins Global Asset Management (DGAM), Canada

Richard Bell

Councillor, Depute Leader and City Treasurer, Glasgow, Scotland

Daniel Biau

Former Director, UN-Habitat’s Regional and Technical Cooperation Division

Kabir Mohammed Yari

Habitat Programme Manager, Regional Office for Africa UN-HABITAT Programme Support Office (HAPSO), Abuja

Anna Lisa Boni

Deputy Mayor, Ecological Transition and International Relations, Bologna

Erias Lukwago

Lord Mayor, Kampala, Uganda

Vincent Gasparro 

Managing Director of Corporate Development and Clean Energy Finance, Vancity Community Investment Bank, Canada

Raúl Salazar

Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Susana Carrillo

Consultant, Global Education. Project Director, George Mason University, United States

Sarita Verma 

President, Vice-Chancellor, Dean and CEO of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Canada

Alias bin Rameli

Director General of Federal Department of Town and Country Planning (PLANMalaysia), Ministry of Housing and Local Government

Ion Ceban

General Mayor of Chisinau Municipality, Republic of Moldova

Jennifer Mirembe

Founder, African Women Architects Revival Activists, Vice Treasurer Gauteng Institute for Architecture in South Africa

Djamel Hamadou

Planning and Urban Planning Director, Grand Paris Grand Est

Leonardo Letelier Saavedra

Dean, Faculty of Government, University of Chile

Maria Camila Uribe

Coordinator of the Inter-American Development Bank Cities Network, Inter-American Development Bank, United States

Nadia Karina Ponce Morales

Sustainability Coordinator and Lecturer, HEC Montréal, Canada

Steve Clarke

Mayor, City of Orillia, Canada

Michaela Kauer

Head of Brussels Office of the City of Vienna, Austria

Souheil Abdullatef

Minister of Public Works and Housing, Syria

Massoud Ghandchi

President & Founder, Ghandchi Organisations, Canada

Peter Zimmerman

Senior Director, Development, Toronto Community Housing, Canada

Rafael Tuts

Director of the Global Solutions Division of UN-Habitat, Co-Chair, International Board, World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Kate Holmquist

Urban Planner and Landscape Architect, WerkSTADT,  United States

Lenka Martinek

Managing Partner, Nordis Capital, Canada

Alan Shepard

President of Western University, Canada

Lars M. Andersson

Member of the Supervisory Board of Agence France Locale and Chair of the Strategy Committee, and Member of the Board of The Global Fund for Cities Development, Sweden

Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey

Mayor of Accra, Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana

Don Iveson

Executive Advisor, Climate Investing & Community Resilience for Co-operators, and Former Mayor of Edmonton, Canada

Rico Badenschier

Mayor of Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Ken Greenberg

Urban designer, Teacher, Writer, Former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto and Principal of Greenberg Consultants, Canada

Michael Rothe

President & Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Finance & Leasing Association

Alice Nabalamba

Chief Urban Development Specialist African Development Bank

Sam Liccardo

Mayor of San Jose, California, United States

Libby Schaaf

Mayor, Oakland, California, United States

Henk Bouwman

Secretary General, Network for European Metropolitan Regions and Areas (METREX), France

Massimo Allulli

Italian Association for Local Communities (ANCI Italia)

Walied Khogali 

Community Leader, Ward 13, Toronto

Elkin Velasquez

Director of UN-Habitat for Latin America and the Caribbean

Sherry Larjani

President, Spotlight Development Inc., Canada

Jose Etcheverry

Associate Professor, Co-Chair, Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI), Director, International Renewable Energy Academy (IREA), Canada

Angelika Poth-Moegele

Secretary General of the Greens Group of the European Committee of the Regions

Sharmaarke Abdullahi

Officer-In-Charge Donor Relations and Strategic Resource partnerships, UN-Habitat, Kenya

Gil Penalosa

Founder & Chair, 8 80 Cities, Canada

Lynne Robinson

Mayor of the City of Bellevue, Washington, United States

Milagro Saborio Rodriguez

Sade Gawanas, Mayor, City of Windhoek, Namibia

Berry Vrbanovic

Mayor of Kitchener, Canada

Wojciech Deska

Senior Urban Sector Specialist, the European Investment Bank, Poland

Chris Williams

Director, New York Office of UN-Habitat

Kristina Øgaard

Nordic Banking Sustainability Lead, Accenture Nordics, Denmark

Delroy Williams

Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica

Arya Rajendran

Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, India

Pierre Gutierrez Medina 

Vice Mayor, City of Piura, Perú

Massimiliano De Martin

Councilor, City of Venice, Department of Land Planning, Housing and the Environment, Italy

Kari Nessa Nordtun

Mayor, Stavanger, Norway

David Wilkes

President and CEO at Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), Canada

Jacqueline Ottmann

President at First Nations University of Canada

I. M. V. Premalal

Mayor, Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte, Sri Lanka

Pantea Eslami

Founder, Director, archiKID, Canada

Leila F. Sadri

Partner, Co-director, archiKID, Canada

Heidi Sumser 

Senior Development Advisor, USAID, United States

Senida Mesi 

Former Deputy Prime Minister Albania and Member of the Parliament. Economist, Development Expert, Albania

Anaclaudia Rossbach 

Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, United States

Pratima Divgi

Head of Capital Markets, CDP North America

Frank D'hondt

Secretary General of ISOCARP and Co-Chair. Steering Committee, The World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Jay-Ann Gilfoy 

President and CEO of Meridian, Canada

Derek Giberson

City Councillor, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Ivan Frishberg

Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, Amalgamated Bank, United States

Jane Lumumba

Manager of Global Sectors and Government at KPMG Canada

Eric Glass 

Impact and Activist Investor, Advisor to Justice Capital, United States

Ana Beatriz Jordao

Chief of Sustainable Cities, AECID, Brazil

Serge Allou

Special Advisor to UCLG World Secretariat, seconded by Expertise France on behalf of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Yame Nkgowe

Founder, Sustainable Cities Africa

Omoayena Rosemary Odunbaku 

Human Settlements Officer, Anglophone West Africa, UN-Habitat

Julie Syversen

Researcher, Public Policy, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Ph.D. Candidate, The New School

Keith Gillard

CEO and co-founder, UpperStage.Capital Inc., Canada

Joshua Gallo

Municipal Finance Advisor and Associate Fellow at the Johns’ Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Former Senior Municipal Finance Specialist, The World Bank 

Francis Foley

Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Republic of Ireland

Huascar Eguino 

Lead Specialist in Fiscal and Municipal Management, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., United States

Diane Davis

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University, United States

Lily Kong

President, Singapore Management University

Dmitry Pozhidaev

Global Advisor for Local Government Finance, UNCDF and Head of UNCDF Office, Uganda

Richard Barkham

Global Chief Economist & Head of Americas Research of CBRE

Daniel Platz

Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Financing for Sustainable Development Office, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Alexander Heichlinger 

Founder & CEO, GovInsight , Co-Founder & Chair of the European Cities of Sustainable Public Finances

Afolabi Oliver

Director, Operational Due Diligence, ESG Officer, Aksia, United Kingdom

Keith Matthew

CEO. Seklep Business Services

Lydia Stazen 

Executive Director, the Ruff Institute of Global Homelessness,  DePaul University, United States

Gregory Rozdeba

Co-Founder and CEO Dundas Life

Anantha Krishnan

Secretary General of Urban Economy Forum, Canada

Graham Carr

President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University, Canada

Alina Turner

Co-Founder, HelpSeeker Technologies

Mark Palmer

President and Chief Executive Officer at Greenland International Consulting

Giuseppe Tesoriere

Senior Regional and Urban Economist in the Cities Research and Knowledge Exchange, World Resources Institute. WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Elahe Pourkarimi

Deputy General Director of the Environmental Legal and Parliament Affairs, Department of Environment, Iran 

Willice Onyango

 Executive Director, The Youth Cafe, Kenya

Roger Beauchemin

Addenda Capital, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada

Robert Bartlett

Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), District of West Vancouver, Canada

Tyler Alley

CEO, Rose City Partners, LLC, United States

R.M. Malla

Formerly CMD SIDBI and CEO of IFCI & MD & CEO of PTC India Financial Services Ltd

Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Professor, Evolutionary Economic Geography, Utrecht University,  Netherlands

Eduardo López Moreno

Former Director at Habitat Office Mexico and Cuba and Head of Knowledge and Innovation at UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya

Benachir Rhizlane

Consultant on Gender and Development

Naser Mohammadi

Executive Director, Municipal Finance and Urban Economy Platform, International City Leaders

Afonso de Brito Canelas

Consultant, Kearney & Fellow, World Economic Forum

Julia Deans

President and CEO, Habitat for Humanity Canada

Sandeep Shingadia

Director, Strategic Partnerships and Delivery Integration, the West Midlands Combined Authority, Greater Birmingham, United Kingdom

Eleanor Mohammed

President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, Founder and Principal of Strategic & Resilient Together, Canada

Najibullah Arshad

Dean of Economics Faculty, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan

Julie Perkins

Officer in Charge, GWOPA Secretariat, UN-Habitat

Yvonne Yeung

CEO, SDG Strategies

Dyfed Aubrey

Inter-Regional Advisory and Head of SDG Cities Initiative of UN-Habitat, Kenya, Co-Director, World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Julie Ward

Former British Member of the European Parliament & Co‐Chair, Steering Committee,  The World Urban Pavilion in Regent Park - Powered by Daniels

Jan Vapaavuori

Former Minister of Economic Affairs, and Former Mayor of Helsinki, Finland

Hatem Masri 

Dean, Economics and Finance ,University of Bahrain

Jaime Webbe 

President and CEO, the United Nations Association in Canada

Anjali Mahendra

Director of Global Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Cherie Enns

Associate Professor, School of Land Use and Environmental Change, University of Fraser Valley, Canada

Pavithra Sulanthar

RPNA Regent Partk Community Coordinator, Canada

Milinda Rajapaksha

Additional Director General, Department of Government Information of Sri Lanka

Sophie Brussaux

Chief Visionary Officer, Artnesse Inc, Canada

Ibrahim Afrah

Executive Director, Vision of Tomorrow, Canada

Edmundo Werna

Professor, London South Bank University

Deborah E. de Lange

Associate Professor, Global Management Studies, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Matti Siemiatycki

Associate Professor of Geography and Planning & Interim Director of School of Cities, University of Toronto

Penny Gurstein

Director of the Housing Research Collaborative, University of British Columbia, Canada

LI Xiangning

Dean and Professor, Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning, China

Dwight J. Friesen

Associate Professor of Practical Theology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, United States

Rosario Adapon Turvey

Associate Professor of Sustainability Science and Geography, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada

Ashvine Budloo

Former Senior Investment Executive, Economic Development Board of Mauritius / Business Consultant

Fazileh Dadvar

Professor of gender Geography, Secreteriate of Academivc Platform at UEF, and Moderator of UEF4

Tassew Woldehanna

President of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Ismail Noori Mseer

Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Ahlia University

Olivia Nielsen

Associate Principal, Miyamoto International

Milagro Saborío-Rodríguez

Professor Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Costa Rica

Rogier van den Berg

Director of Urban Development for World Resources Institute, United States

M. Satish Kumar

School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University, United Kingdom

Paige P. Viren

Executive Director of Sustainable Hospitality Management Program at California State University Monterey Bay, United States

Anna Jahn

Director of Public Policy and Learning, AI for Humanity (Mila) 

Golnoosh Farnadi

Assistant Professor, HEC Montréal, Core Academic Member (Mila), Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Shaz Jameson

PhD student, Tilburg Institute of Law and Technology, UdeM, Mila

David Rolnick

Assistant Professor, McGill University, Core Academic Member (Mila), Canada CIFAR AI Chair

Emmanuel Munyamahoro Mpimuye 

Senior Regional and Urban Economist at Skat Consulting Ltd in Great Lakes Region of Africa: Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo

Marissa Kokkoros

Executive Director, Aura Freedom International, Canada

Mona Fawaz

Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut

Osama Y. Al-Rawi

Dean, College of Engineering , Gulf University, Bahrain

Kian Bakhtiari

Founder, The People, United Kingdom

Camilla Ween

Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University and Expert in Urban Design, City Planning and Transportation

Elaine Coburn

Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Associate Professor, Glendon College, York University, Canada

Darwin Choi 

Associate Professor, Department of Finance and Associate Director of the Centre for Business Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Milagro Saborio Rodriguez

Professor Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Costa Rica

Laura Wyper 

Professor, Algoma University, Canada

Zainaba Ben Houmou

President, North South Society, Morocco

Yunqing Xu

Director, Urban and Environmental Studies University Research Centre, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Innocent Wellington Ruwende

Principal Communication Officer, City of Harare

Laura Genet Marano 

Advisor, Tøyen Unlimited, Norway

Claudia Murray

Research Fellow, Department of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Victor Ntoban

Department of Geography, Catholic University of Cameroon (CATUC)

Muhammad Gambo

Manager, Policy, Research and Partnerships, Shelter Afrique, Kenya

Mike Irvine

School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University, United Kingdom

Ajith Kaliyath 

Urban Chair Professor, Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Kerala, India

Stephen Wanjala

Executive Director. Housing and Development Finance Consultants (Africa) Ltd.

Jugal Mahabir

Director, Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Michael Ostrovsky

Fred H. Merrill Professor of Economics, Stanford University, United States

Eiman Ahmed Elwidaa

Professor, Publications on Urbanization and Affordable Housing, Integrating Gender, Georgian College, Canada

Ezgi Canpolat

Social Development Specialist, The World Bank’s Climate Change Group, Climate Investment Funds

Raffaele Scuderi

Professor, Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Law & Dean of the Faculty, Kore University of Enna, Italy

Jude Kimengsi 

Senior Scientist, he Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Gabriela Garcia Portuondo

Urban Planner and Architect, Cuba

Geoffrey Payne

Urban Planner Geoffrey Payne & Associates

Emmanuel Ikechukwu

Lead Consultant and CEO of Metromax international Limited, Nigeria; Chairman of Rivers State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP); Chairman of NITP State Chapter Chairmen’s Forum; Chairman of South-South Planners Forum, Nigeria and API Country Coordinator

Darrell Reid

Chief Commissioner, Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada

Krystal Valencia

Director of Development, Home Suite Hope Canada

Padma Prakash

Editor, eSocialSciences,Director, IRIS Knowledge Foundation, India

Nicholas You

Executive Director at Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation

Ali A. Alraouf

Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Head of Research and Development Urban Planning Department

Christina Bruce

MCIP, RPP, Director, Policy Planning and Special Programs 

Azizur Rahman Siddiqui 

Former Head, Department of Geography, Secretary General,Indian Institute of Geomorphologists, University of Allahabad

Neil Seldman

CEO, ILRC

Mark Foster

Second Chance, CEO

Albert Nyiti

Assistant Research Fellow, PhD Candidate, Lecturer, Ardhi University

Mona Abdallah

Region Director, African Planner Institute, Sudan

Chisom Udeze

Founder of Mettle Consult

Nayan Mitra

Founder-Director of Sustainable Advancements (OPC) Private Limited

Meseret Haileyesus 

Executive Director, Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment

Tiffany Tong 

Co-Founder and CEO, Aloi

Jane Henshaw

Projects Director, Cadogan, United Kingdom

Kishan Putta

Communications & Community Outreach Specialist, DC Health Link

Prashant Kumar Ghosh

Head of Department of Economics, University of Allahabad, India

Adriana Paliwoda-Matiolańska

Researcher, Faculty of Management, Cracow University of Economics

Priyanka Kaul

Alumni, Environmental Science, GIS and Urban Planning & Development, University of the Fraser Valley

Brennan Banks

Founder & Vice President, Cassandra Banks Foundation

Kulwant Singh

President of KSS-Institute of Spatial Planning and Environment Research, and  CEO of 3R WASTE Foundation, India

Johannes Rehner

Institute of Geography Director of Institute of Geography Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Skye d’Almeida

Principal, Investor Coverage, and Former Senior Manager C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Saskia Sassen

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, United States

Tristan Downe-Dewdney

Senior Associate of Municipal Affairs, Sussex Strategy Group