Commission Members
The Commission is made up of a wide range of researchers, finance experts from both public and private sectors, leaders of city networks and over 20 mayors from cities in high-income, emerging and developing countries.
- Commission Members
- 0+
- Current & Former Mayors
- 0+
- Public and Private Experts
- 0+
Co-chairs
Anne Hidalgo
Mayor, Paris
Eduardo Paes
Mayor, Rio de Janeiro
Jeffrey Sachs
President, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Secretariat
Eugénie Birch
Nussdorf Professor and co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research University of Pennsylvania
William Burke-White
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Mauricio Rodas
Former Mayor, Quito, Ecuador; Visiting Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania
Mayors
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Justin Bibb
Mayor, Cleveland, USA
Sally Capp
Mayor, Melbourne, Australia
Ekrem İmamoğlu
Mayor, Istanbul, Turkey
Daniella Levine-Cava
Mayor, Miami Dade County, USA
Claudio Orrego
Governor, Metropolitan Region, Santiago, Chile
Ricardo Rio
Mayor, Braga, Portugal
Guiseppe Sala
Mayor, Milan, Italy
Mohamed Sefiani
Mayor, Chefchaouen, Morocco
Erion Veliaj
Mayor, Tirana, Albania
Public/Private Experts
Peter Adams
Associate Director, Climate Risk and Resilience, Howden Group Holdings
David Albertani
CEO, Catalytic Finance Foundation
James Alexander
CEO, UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association
Donnel Baird
CEO, BlocPower
Aloke Barnwal
Lead, Urban and Infrastructure, Global Environment Facility
Inga Beie
Head of Project, GIZ LOUIS Programme
Salim Bensmail
Senior Investment Director, Meridiam
Erik Berglöf
Chief Economist, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Adam Brenneman
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb
Ruurd Brouwer
CEO at TCF Fund
Jane Burston
Founder and CEO, Clean Air Fund
Ángel Cárdenas
Director, Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies, CAF
Alice Charles
Director, Cities, Planning, and Design, Arup
Isabelle Chatry
Head of Unit - OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities, OECD
Greg Clark
Chair, Cities Commission for Climate Investment
Vito Dellerba
Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, CDPQ
Françoise d'Estais
Chief, Finance Unit, Energy, Technology and Climate Branch, UNEP
Hazem Galal
Global Partner for Cities and Local Governments, PwC
María del Pilar Garrido
Director, Development Co-operation, OECD
Jorge Gastelumendi
Interim Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
Nicolas Gharbi
Director of Public Affairs and AdvocacyDirector of Public Affairs and Advocacy Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation
Cristina Gómez Garcia-Reyes
Lead, Net-Zero Nature-Positive Cities, World Economic Forum
Lars Gronvald
Head of Cities Section in the Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), European Commission
Audrey Guiral-Naepels
Head of the Urban Development, Planning and Housing Department, AFD
Raul Herrera
Partner at Arnold & Porter
Naoko Ishii
Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
Atiqul Islam
Former Mayor, Dhaka North City Corporation, Bangladesh
David Jackson
Director, Local Development Finance, UNCDF
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Cities and Regions (CFE), OECD
Kamelia Kemileva
Co-Director, Global Cities Hub
Boo Hock Khoo
Chair, Green Guarantee Company
Adama Mariko
Secretary General, Finance in Common
Tadashi Matsumoto
Head of Unit, Sustainable Urban Development
Michal Mlynár
Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Priscilla Negreiros
Manager, City Climate Leadership Alliance (CCFLA); Associate Director, Climate Policy Initiative
Lin O'Grady
Deputy Head in EBRD's Sustainable Infrastructure Group
Lasitha Perera
CEO, Green Guarantee Company
Rudolf du Plessis
Advisor, Sustainable Finance, GIZ LOUIS Programme
Jaime Pumarejo Heins
Former Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia; Executive Director, Breathe Cities
Marvin Rees
Former Mayor of Bristol, Honorary Professor at Bristol University
Aromar Revi
Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Rémy Rioux
CEO, Agence Française de Développement (AFD); Chairman, International Development Finance Club (IDFC); Chair, Executive Board, Finance in Common
Debra Roberts
Professor Willem Schermerhorn Chair in Open Science from a Majority World Perspective Faculty of Geo-Information Science, University of Twente
Gregor Robertson
Former Mayor, Vancouver; Special Envoy for Cities in CHAMP; Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors
Gulnara Roll
Head of Cities Unit, UNEP
Mark Rosenberg
Principal, MHR Fund Management LLC
Paul Smoke
Professor, Public Finance, Wagner School, New York University
Felicity Spors
Senior Director Sustainable Finance and Innovation, Gold Standard Foundation
Daniel Stander
Special Advisor, UNDP; Deputy Chair of the Board, Resilient Cities Network
Josué Tanaka
Visiting Professor of Practice, Grantham Institute, LSE; Principal Finance Advisor, C40
Bella Tonkonogy
Director, U.S. Office, Climate Policy Initiative
Myriem Touhami Kadiri
Programme Director, Energy Branch, Economy Division, UNEP
Rafael Tuts
Director of the Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat
Kevin Chika Urama
Chief Economist, African Development Bank
Sameh Wahba
Regional Director for Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank
Nicholas You
Director, Guangzhou Institute of Innovation
City Networks and Coalitions
Cristel Bourbon-Seclet
Director of City Finance Programme, C40
Andy Deacon
Managing Director, Global Covenant of Mayors
Andrea Fernández
Managing Director of Climate Finance, Knowledge, and Partnerships, C40
Emilia Saiz
Secretary General, UCLG
Lauren Sorkin
Executive Director, Resilience Cities Network
Gino van Begin
Secretary General, ICLEI
Rogier van den Berg
Global Director for Sustainable Cities, WRI
Mark Watts
Executive Director, C40
Research Observers
Allison Ahern
Associate, Resilience Finance, Resilient Cities Network
Aziza Akhmouch
Head of Division on Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, UNECE
Andy Altman
Founder and Principal, Five Square Development
Uche Anya
Executive Chairman, Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, Nigeria
Marie-Lena Hutfils
Advisor, Leading Urban Climate Action (LUCA), GIZ
Guillaume LaFortune
Vice President and Head of Paris Office, SDSN
Stefano Marta
Head of Unit, Smart and Sustainable Cities, OECD
Grégoire Merrheim
City of Paris, France
Thomas Oostheim
Associate, CEO's Office at TCX
Lucas Padilha
Chairman of the Mayor of Rio G20 Organizing Committee, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Laura Petrella
Chief, Planning, Finance and Economy Section, UN-Habitat
Veronica Scotti
Chairperson, Public Sector Solutions, Suiss Re
Courtenay Wheeler
Policy Analyst, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities, OECD
Communications and Research Experts
Luke Campo
Program Associate, Urban SDG Finance, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Laura Frances
Program Associate, Urban SDG Finance, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Alyson (Marks) Fraser
Head of Communications and External Relations, SDSN
Amanda Lloyd
Program Director, Global Research Initiatives, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Megan Schmidgal
Director of Communications & Publications, Penn Institute for Urban Research
Delfina Vildosola
Program Associate, Urban SDG Finance, Penn Institute for Urban Research