2016 Chicago Forum on Global Cities
Nearly 600 delegates and 60 speakers from more 30 countries participated in the 2016 Chicago Forum on Global Cities.
About This Event
Nearly 600 delegates and 60 speakers from more 30 countries participated in the 2016 Chicago Forum on Global Cities, hosted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Financial Times.
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A panel of five experts discusses how urban violence affects cities' success on the global stage.
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A panel of experts examines how global cities respond to and prepare for threats, particularly in collaboration with or independent of national agencies.
About the Speakers
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Columnist
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher on social, political, and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf States.
Kara Bachman
Executive Director, Chicago Sports Commission
François Bergere
Program Manager, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, The World Bank Group
Mike Brown
MVO, Commissioner, Transport for London
Scott C. Brun
MD, Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Head, AbbVie Ventures
Ricky Burdett
Professor, Urban Studies and Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age Programme, London School of Economics
Charlie Catlett
Founding Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data
Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Properties
Chan Heng Chee
Ambassador-at-Large & Professor, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities
Ambassador Chan Heng Chee is ambassador-at-large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, and a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design. Previously, she was Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S. and Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations. In 2018, she was named the Council's Marshall M. Bouton Asia Fellow.
James Cuno
Former President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust
James "Jim" Cuno is an American art historian and curator. Cuno formally served as President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust for over 10 years. Before that he headed the Art Institute of Chicago, among other leading museums through his career. Cuno is also coeditor of the book, "Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities", which looks at the destruction of cultural heritage in conflict around the world and what can be done.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
Caroline Daniel
Partner, Brunswick and Former Editor, FT Weekend
Caroline Daniel is a partner at Brunswick and former editor of FT Weekend, consulting editor of FT Live/FT Conferences, and FT assistant editor. Previously, Daniel was the FT White House correspondent, a features writer and reporter for the New Statesman, a reporter for the Economist, and a political researcher for Gordon Brown.
Dan Doctoroff
Founder and CEO, Sidewalk Labs
Founder & CEO, Chicago Beyond
Liz Dozier has spent her career working to disrupt the culture of inequity that is often pervasive in urban neighborhoods. In 2016, Dozier launched Chicago Beyond, an impact investor fighting the inequities pervasive in Chicago’s communities. Chicago Beyond has invested more than $35 million in ideas, individuals, and organizations that fight for all youth to achieve their fullest human potential.
Ebtesam Al-Ketbi
President of the Emirates Policy Center
Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi founded the Emirates Policy Center (EPC) in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates in September 2013. EPC undertakes the task of studying and foreseeing future regional and international geopolitical projects and their impact on the Gulf region. Before she founded EPC, Dr. Al-Ketbi was a professor of political science at the United Arab Emirates University.
US Business Editor, Financial Times
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the US business editor of the Financial Times, leading its coverage of US business in an age of populism, policy upheavals, and shifting expectations of corporate America. He manages a team of reporters while writing news, analysis, and commentary and helping develop new offerings for the FT’s core audience such as Moral Money, its awards-winning ESG newsletter.
Angela Foster-Rice
Managing Director of Global Environmental Affairs & Sustainability, United Airlines
Fred ad Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts & Sciences; Harvard University
Distinguished Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture
Dan Glickman is a distinguished fellow in the Center on Global Food and Agriculture, having co-chaired the Center for nearly a decade. Currently, he's a senior counselor and chair of the International Advisory Board at APCO Worldwide; senior advisor to the US Global Leadership Coalition; and lead director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group).
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Mayor of Warsaw
Christiane Hajj
Executive Director, Fundación Carlos Slim
LaMar Hasbrouck
MD, MPH, Executive Director, The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Edwin Heathcote
Architecture Critic, Financial Times
Connie Hedegaard
Former EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Chairman, CONCITO and KR Foundation
Todd Hohn
Global Workplace Health and Safety Director, UL
Mark S. Hoplamazian
President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Mark S. Hoplamazian was appointed to the board of directors in November 2006 and named president and chief executive officer of Hyatt Hotels Corporation in December 2006. Prior to being appointed to his present position, Hoplamazian served as president of The Pritzker Organization (TPO), the principal financial and investment adviser for Pritzker family business interests.
Umran Inan
President, Koç University
Tessa Jowell
House of Lords, London School of Economics
David Kilcullen
President and CEO, Caerus Associates
Peter Kudryavtsev
Founding Partner, Citymakers
Desmond Kuek
President and Group CEO, SMRT Corporation Ltd.
Thai-Ker Liu
Senior Director, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (pte) Ltd.
US National Editor, Financial Times
Edward Luce is the Financial Times' chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that role, he was the Financial Times' Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi.
Lior Meyer
Director of Brand Marketing & Communications, Tel Aviv Global
Robert Muggah
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Cities
Robert Muggah is a specialist in cities, security, migration, and new technologies. He is principal of SecDev, a cyber security and digital resilience company. He also co-founded the Igarapé Institute—an independent think and do tank devoted to data-driven citizen, digital and climate security across Latin America and Africa. In addition to serving as a nonresident senior fellow at the Council, Muggah is a fellow or faculty at six other institutions. He is the author of eight books, most recently Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years (Penguin/Random House) and received his DPhil from the University of Oxford.
Distinguished Fellow, Global Cities
As the former mayor of Philadelphia, Michael A. Nutter maintains active involvement in critical areas of education, media, public policy, political campaigns, the corporate community, and academic institutions across the country. Along with being a fellow at the Council, he also chairs the Airbnb Mayor’s Advisory Council, an international group of former mayors providing advice on local government issues.
Distinguished Fellow, Global Cities
Claudio Orrego is a distinguished fellow for the Global Cities team at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. From March 2014 through March 2018, he was the governor of the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, and prior to that, he was elected as the presidential candidate for the Christian Democrat party.
Boris Palmer
Mayor, Tübingen
Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Governor, City of Bangkok
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Former US Secretary of the Treasury
In addition to serving as US Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009, Henry M. Paulson, Jr. is also the founder and chairman of The Paulson Institute, a non-partisan, independent "think and do tank."
Dan Pelino
General Manager, Global Public Sector, IBM Corporation
Adam Pellegrini
Divisional VP, Digital Health, Walgreens
Arne Quinze
Artist based out of Sint-Martens-Latem
Kasim Reed
Mayor, City of Atlanta
Andreas Schleicher
Director, Directorate for Education and Skills, The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
President, Fundação Getulio Vargas
Anne-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO, New America
Helle Søholt
Founding Partner & CEO, Gehl Architects ApS
Dorothee Stapelfeldt
Minister for Urban Development and Housing, Hamburg, Germany
Paul D. Steinberg
Chief Technology Officer, Motorola Solutions
Contributing Editor, Financial Times
Philip Stephens joined the Financial Times in 1983 as the economics, political, and UK edition editor, and currently serves as a contributing editor. He won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism, Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association, and Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
Chorh Chuan Tan
President, National University of Singapore
Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large, US, Financial Times
Gillian Tett is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political, and social issues. In 2014 she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards. In addition, Tett’s past roles include US managing editor, assistant editor, and capital markets editor.
Alfonso Vegara
Founder & Honorary President, Fundación Metrópoli
Rachel Whetstone
Senior Vice President of Policy and Communications, Uber
Abi Williams
President, The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Keith E. Williams
President and CEO, UL LLC
Keith Williams is president and CEO of UL. Under his tenure, UL has reorganized and optimized its operating structure, expanded geographically, extended its services, and successfully managed the integration of more than thirty acquisitions. Williams has championed UL’s global expansion with a focus on Asia, a region in which he has broad expertise.
Thomas Wright
Thomas Wright is the Director, Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow of foreign policy, project on international order and strategy at the Brookings Institution.
Minja Yang
Former Deputy Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, President and Professor, Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation, KU Leuven