WEF/Global Future Council/Cities of Tomorrow
 WEF/Global Future Council/Cities of Tomorrow(WEF/Global Future Council)    | |
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| Interests | build back better, new normal, Michael Bloomberg Philanthropies, PwC, Melbourne, OECD, Brisbane, Amsterdam |
| Membership | • Penny Abeywardena • Robert Adams • Aziza Akhmouch • Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr • James Anderson • Ger Baron • Cheryl Benini • Jan Biese • Eugenie Ladner Birch •  Sinéad Burke• Chan Heng Chee •  Greg Clark• Dyan Currie • Guy Diedrich • Hawazen Esbe • Hazem Galal • Tatiana Gallego-Lizon • Miguel Gamiño • Susan Goeransson • Simon Huffeteau • Hussam Hussein • Jeremy Kelly • Anna König Jerlmyr • Niels Lund • Amit Midha • David Miller (C40 Climate Leadership Group) • Maimunah Mohd Sharif • Liz Muange • Robert Muggah • Naheed Nenshi • Victor Pineda •  Carlo Ratti•  Marvin Rees• Emilia Saiz • Jennifer Semakula Musisi • Jose Siri • Fernando Straface • Soichiro Takashima • Kangkang Tong • Jan Vapaavuori • Annick Villeneuve • Dagmar Vogel • Sameh Wahba • Marija Zima |
| World Economic Forum planning group to re-design cities to build back better. | |
The WEF's Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow is designed to identify how cities can be re-designed to build back better. The Global Future Councils serve as a brain trust for leaders from government, business and civil society collaborating in shaping agendas.
The members of the council represents remarkable powerful interests, such as billionaire Michael Bloomberg (central to COVID-19[citation needed]), the Wellcome Trust (a big pharma philanthropic comparable to the Gates Foundation) and MasterCard.
Cities such as New York, Melbourne,Brisbane, Amsterdam and Stockholm are represented and are presumably chosen as the pioneers in this re-design. What this means in practice can be seen with the rollout of vaccine passports, the forced closure of small businesses, and endless cycles of lockdowns.
Official narrative
Council mission and objectives[1]: COVID-19 has already significantly altered urban life, both physically and socially. From temporarily widened pavements, replacing car parking spaces and roadway with cycleways, to allowing restaurants to expand into the street to enable social distancing, these changes are transforming the urban streetscape.
In parallel, citizens are demanding that cities are built back better to become liveable, sustainable and affordable, which requires action on climate and resilience, the provision of vital social infrastructure (health and housing) and enabling the digital infrastructure required for our new normal. This is set against record budget shortfalls, dwindling tax revenues and record unemployment, while health, sanitation and housing costs have accelerated, putting city budgets into deficit.
The Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow will seek to identify how cities can be re-designed to build back better and provide the climate and resilience, social and digital infrastructure to do so, as well as rethinking traditional revenues and financing mechanisms to deliver liveable, sustainable and affordable cities.
Members
- Penny Abeywardena Commissioner for International Affairs, Mayor's Office, City of New York
- Robert Adams General Manager, City Design, City of Melbourne
- Aziza Akhmouch Head of Division Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr Mayor, Freetown City Council
- James Anderson Head of Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Ger Baron Chief Technology Officer, Government of Amsterdam
- Cheryl Benini Head, Strategy, Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Siemens AG
- Jan Bieser Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer
- Eugenie Ladner Birch Nussdorf Professor and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania
- Sinéad Burke Chief Executive Officer, Tilting The Lens
- Chan Heng Chee Chairman, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Greg Clark Global Head, Future Cities and New Industries, HSBC Holdings Plc
- Dyan Currie Chief Planner, Brisbane City Council
- Guy Diedrich Global Innovation Officer, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Hawazen Esber Chief Executive Officer, Communities, Majid Al Futtaim Holding
- Hazem Galal Global Leader, Cities and Local Government, PwC
- Tatiana Gallego-Lizon Division Chief, Housing and Urban Development, The Inter-American Development Bank
- Miguel Gamiño Executive Vice-President, Global Cities, Mastercard
- Susan Goeransson Director, Infrastructure Europe, Sustainable Infrastructure Group, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Simon Huffeteau Vice-President, Infrastructure & Cities Strategy, Dassault Systèmes SE
- Hussam Hussein Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- Jeremy Kelly Director, Global Research, JLL
- Anna König Jerlmyr Mayor of Stockholm, City of Stockholm
- Niels Lund Vice-President, Health Advocacy, Novo Nordisk A/S
- Amit Midha President, Asia-Pacific and Japan, Dell Technologies
- David Miller Director International Diplomacy, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Maimunah Mohd Sharif Undersecretary‐General of the United Nations; Executive Director, UN Habitat
- Liz Muange Alumni, Global Shapers Community
- Robert Muggah Director, Igarapé Institute
- Naheed Nenshi Mayor of Calgary, City of Calgary
- Victor Pineda President, World Enabled
- Carlo Ratti Director, SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Marvin Rees Mayor of Bristol, Bristol City Council
- Emilia Saiz Secretary General, United Cities & Local Government
- Jennifer Semakula Musisi City Leader in Residence, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Harvard University
- Jose Siri Senior Lead, Science, Cities, Urbanization, and Health, Our Planet, Our Health (OPOH), Wellcome Trust
- Fernando Straface Secretary-General, City of Buenos Aires
- Soichiro Takashima Mayor of Fukuoka, City of Fukuoka
- Kangkang Tong Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
- Jan Vapaavuori Member of the Board and Senior Adviser, Miltton Creative Oy
- Annick Villeneuve Vice-President, Real Estate Segment and Strategic Alliances, Schneider Electric
- Dagmar Vogel Head, Infrastructure Financing Division, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
- Sameh Wahba Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land, World Bank Group
- Marija Zima Head, Smart Cities and Solutions, ABB Ltd
Known members
4 of the 44 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
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| Sinéad Burke | Irish disability activist. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021 |
| Greg Clark | UK politician, WEF/Global Future Council/Cities of Tomorrow |
| Carlo Ratti | Italian architect inventor who has focused on COVID-19 |
| Marvin Rees | Mayor of Bristol who founded the The City Leadership Programme |
