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
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- Current & Former Mayors
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- Public and Private Experts
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Co-chairs
Anne Hidalgo
Mayor, Paris
Eduardo Paes
Mayor, Rio de Janeiro
Jeffrey Sachs
President, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Mayors
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Justin Bibb
Mayor, Cleveland, USA
Abigail Binay
Mayor, Makag City, Philippines
Sally Capp
Mayor, Melbourne, Australia (invited)
Ekrem İmamoğlu
Mayor, Istanbul, Turkey
Atiqul Islam
Mayor, Dhaka North City Corporation, Bangladesh
Daniella Levine-Cava
Mayor, Miami Dade County, USA
Jaime Pumarejo Heins
Mayor, Barranquilla, Colombia
Marvin Rees
Mayor, Bristol, UK
Horacio Rodriguez Larreta
Mayor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mohammed Sefiani
Mayor, Chefchaouen, Morocco
Public/Private Experts
James Alexander
CEO, UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association
Inge Beie
Head, Urban Climate Action, GIZ
Eric Berglof
Chief Economist, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
William Burke-White
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Eugenie Birch
Nussdorf Professor and co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research University of Pennsylvania
Angel Cardenas
Director, Urban Development, Water and Creative Economies, CAF
Alice Charles
Director, Cities, Planning, and Design, Arup
Greg Clark
Chair, Cites Committee for Climate Investment
Françoise d’Estais
Chief, Finance Unit, Energy, Technology and Climate Branch, UNEP
Cristina Gómez Garcia-Reyes
Lead, Net-Zero Nature-Positive Cities, World Economic Forum
Hazem Galal
Global Partner for Cities and Local Governments, PwC
Sharon Gil
Programme Manager, Cities Unit, U.N. Environmental Programme
María del Pilar Garrido
Director, Development Corporation, OECD
Nicolas Gharbi
Advisor to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Spanish Presidency, Council of the Europe
Naoko Ishii
Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
David Jackson
Director, Local Development Finance, UNCDF
Myrium Touhame Kadiri
Programme Director, Energy Branch, Economy Division, UNEP
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui
Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Cities and Regions (CFE), OECD
Priscilla Negreiros
Manager, City Climate Leadership Alliance (CCFLA), Climate Policy Initiative
Aromar Revi
Director, Indian Institute for Urban Settlements, IPCC lead author
Remi Rioux
Chief Executive Officer, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Gregor Robertson
EVP of Strategy and Partnerships, Nexii; Global Ambassador, Global Covenant of Mayors; former Mayor, Vancouver, Canada
Mauricio Rodas
Visiting Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania; Former Mayor, Quito, Ecuador
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
Fernando Straface
Secretary General for International Affairs, City of Buenos Aires
Josué Tanaka
Visiting Professor of Practice, Grantham Institute, LSE; Principal Finance Advisor, C40, former Managing Director, ERBD
Bella Tonkonogy
Director, U.S. Office, Climate Policy Initiative
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
Andrew Deacon
Managing Director, Global Covenant of Mayors
Andrea Fernandez
Managing Director of Climate Finance, Knowledge, and Partnerships, C40
Emilia Saiz
Secretary General, UCLG
Lauren Sorkin
Director, Resilience Cities Network
Gino van Begin
Executive Director, ICLEI
Rogier van den Berg
Global Director for Sustainable Cities, WRI
Mark Watts
Executive Director, C40
Research Observers
Alison Ahern
Consultant for Resilience Investments, Resilient Cities Network
Aziza Akhmouch
Head of Division on Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development, OECD
Andrew Altman
Founder and Principal, Five Square Development
Eamon Drumm
Senior Program Officer, SDSN
Lena Hutfils
Advisor, Leading Urban Climate Action (LUCA), GIZ
Guillaume LaFortune
Vice President and Head of Paris Office, SDSN
Gregoire Merrheim
City of Paris, France
Lucas Padilha
Chairman of the Mayor of Rio G20 Organizing Committee, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Communication and Advocacy Experts
Alyson (Marks) Fraser
Head of Communications and External Relations, SDSN
Diana Lind
Director of Communications & Publications, Penn Institute for Urban Research