Cities: Engines of Transformational Change
Speakers
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Sue Riddlestone OBE is CEO and co-founder of Bioregional, and a 2009 Skoll awardee. Sue and the team work with partners to create homes, communities and products and services which enable us to live well within a sustainable carbon and ecological footprint. Bioregional are behind many exemplary residential communities, including the iconic BedZED eco-village in London, and Bicester eco-town in Oxford.
To scale their work, Bioregional systematised their approach to create a sustainability framework called One Planet Living, used in over $30billion of real-estate development, as well as by municipalities, cities, organisations and companies around the world from Mexico to China, the USA and Australia.
Sue draws on this to influence policy and industry practice from zero carbon to eco-towns and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2013 Sue was awarded one of the UK’s highest honours, an OBE, for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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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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Head of Special Projects, BBC World Service Group
Emily Kasriel is an experienced media executive who has been leading a range of high-profile projects for the BBC including developing the flagship Share Your Story for the BBC Centenary in 2022 and the BBC Crossing Divides season. She has a particular interest in Deep Listening, researching the field as a Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics and publishing her research in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Emily is also an Executive Coach and serves on the board of The Wingate Foundation. She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship 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, events and interviews around the world.
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Alessandra is a non-profit executive, activist, director, producer and writer with extensive experience in advocacy and campaigning. Alessandra was a very early member of Purpose PBC which she brought to Brazil before co-founding NOSSAS. She was the curator of Agora É que são Elas, a columnist at Folha de São Paulo and a TED Global speaker. She is currently the showrunner at Greg News - a satirical journalism show on HBO - and a fellow at the Obama Foundation and Ashoka. Alessandra has a degree from Columbia University in Economics and Human Rights.
