Patrons and Program Committee
Co-patrons
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat)
Lord Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn, Germany; ICLEI President and Special Messenger to the United Nations Climate Change and carbonn Climate Registry
Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Read our Co-Patrons’ forewords on the Resilient Cities 2019 Program Booklet!
Program Committee
The Program Committee for the Resilient Cities Congress is composed of experts from partner organizations centrally involved in the theme of climate change adaptation and local governments from various continents.
Program Committee members provide advice on Congress themes and proposed presentations, and have an advisory role in the review process of the Call for Contributions.
Senior Lead on International Resilience & Adaptation Policy, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC, USA
Project Manager “Sustainable Development of Metropolitan Regions”, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany
(Photo Credit: European Union/European Commission)
Assistant Professor at School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
(Photo Credit: Twitter)
Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Climate Impacts Group, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Co-Director, Urban Climate Change Research Network, Columbia University, New York, USA
Director of Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, UK
Chief Resilience Officer, Quito, Ecuador
Divisional Head of Environmental Strategic Planning, City of Ekurhuleni, South Africa
(Photo Credit: City of Ekurhuleni Twitter)
Supervisory Program Manager of Commercial Buildings Integration, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington DC, USA
(Photo Credit: Twitter)
Director of Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China
Team Leader of Resilient Recovery and Urban Resilience, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
CEO, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB), Basel, Switzerland
Manager of Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Risks Subprogramme, Adaptation Programme, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), Bonn, Germany
(Photo Credit: UN System Staff College)
Head of program for Resilient and Sustainable City Solutions, City of Copenhagen, Denmark
Head of Disaster Research Unit and Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Former Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany
Executive Director of RESURBE International Program on Urban Resilience, Recycling Cities Network (RECNET), Barcelona, Spain. Professor (MSO) of Urban Resilience, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
Unit Leader Climate Change Planning Unit, Urban Planning and Design Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya
Head of Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR ONEA-GETI), Incheon, South Korea
(Photo Credit: Cifal Newcastle Twitter)
Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation Specialist and Executive Committee Member of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage at UN Climate Change, South Africa
(Photo Credit: Linkedin)
Senior Advisor to the Mayor, Makati City, Philippines
