Marvin Rees

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Person.png Marvin ReesRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, mayor)
Marvin Rees.jpg
Member ofWEF/Global Future Council/Cities of Tomorrow, World Fellows Program/2010
Mayor of Bristol who founded the The City Leadership Programme

Marvin Rees

Own Words

The 2010 World Fellows Program writes that "Marvin Rees was elected Mayor of Bristol in the United Kingdom in May 2016. As Mayor he sits as one of the leaders of the UK Core Cities and on the Steering Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. He is a popular public speaker on issues of race, class, faith, and social mobility.

Marvin worked previously in public health as a BBC broadcast journalist and radio presenter and for the international development agency, Tearfund. In 2012 Marvin founded the The City Leadership Programme, a Yale World Fellows-inspired program which targets and equips high ability, high aspiration young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds for national and global leadership."[1]

Activities

As Mayor of Bristol, Rees is the subject of reporting by Tony Gosling, a Bristol resident.[2]

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