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Marilyn J Taylor
Immediate Past Chairman
Urban Land Institute
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Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, is an architect and urban designer whose projects focus on bringing design excellence to the public realm.
Ms. Taylor spent her first years with the firm in the Washington, DC office where she participated in projects including the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, a $2.5 billion Federal initiative to improve passenger rail service and the stations and station areas between Washington, DC and Boston. She then moved to New York to lead the Urban Design and Planning practice.
She also led the team that produced the award-winning Transit-Friendly Land Use Planning, a manual for citizens and municipal officials throughout New Jersey. Since 1985, Ms. Taylor has brought the skills of urban design and architecture to a number of airport and transportation projects, culminating in the establishment of "SOM Airports", a planning and design practice addressing passenger-serving facilities at major transportation centers.
Ms. Taylor is very active in civic activities in New York, and serves on the boards of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) and the Institute for Urban Design. She is currently serving as Chairman of the New York Building Congress.
She is Past President of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and has chaired the AIA's national Regional and Urban Design Committee. In 1995 she was selected as a David Rockefeller Fellow of the New York City Partnership, spending a year studying the city's public policy issues and strategies. In 1998 she was honored as the CREW Woman of the Year, and she has been twice named to the Crain’s List of Most Influential Women. She frequently lectures and serves on juries.
Ms. Taylor was educated at Radcliffe College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Ms. Taylor was the first woman to head SOM as Chairman from 2001 to 2003. Ms. Taylor is the first woman to head the firm. She is now the Partner in charge of planning and urban design.
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Alfonso Vegara
President,Fundación Metrópoli
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Alfonso Vegara is an Architect, Economist and Sociologist and earned a PhD in City and Regional Planning. He is the founder and President of the Fundación Metrópoli, fellow and Trustee of the Eisenhower Foundation. He has taught architecture and planning at the Universities of Madrid, Navarra and Pennsylvania School of Design. He has also worked as an advisor to the Government of Singapore for the One North Project, as well as Cities as Curitiba, Dublin, Bilbao, Casablanca, Sydney, etc. From 2002-2005 he was President of ISOCARP, The International Society of City and Regional Planners. In 2006 he received the European City and Regional Planning Award and in 2007 the Jaime I Award on Planning, Landscape and Sustainability delivered by the King of Spain. His research on Urban Planning has been presented in the book “Territorios Inteligentes”.
FUNDACIÓN METRÓPOLI
Fundación Metrópoli is an international organisation, at the forefront of a new generation of “intellectual capital institutions” that aspires to contribute to the innovation and development of cities and regions through the research, sharing and implementation of knowledge, and with the objective of building a sustainable future. The aim of the Fundación is to be a catalyst for the positive transformation of cities and landscapes in the 21st century.
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Peter G. Rowe
Professor
Harvard University
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Peter G. Rowe is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard from 1992 to 2004. He was also the Education Programme Director of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture from 2004 to 2007.
Rowe studied at Melbourne University where he received a bachelor’s degree in architecture, subsequently earning a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Rice University and a honorary A.M. degree from Harvard. While in Houston, Texas, he taught on the faculty at Rice University from 1971, serving as Director of the School of Architecture from 1980 until joining the Harvard faculty in 1985. Between 1973 and 1981 Rowe also directed many multi-disciplinary research projects through the Rice Center, where he was Vice President from 1978 onwards, and at the Southwest Center for Urban Research. He was also a principal in the firm Environmental Planning and Design, in Houston, from 1981 until 1985. Prior to becoming Dean of the Faculty of Design at Harvard, Rowe served as Chairman of the Urban Planning and Design Department from 1988 until 1992, and Director of the Urban Design Programs from 1985 until 1990.
Rowe’s research and consulting are extensive, diverse and international in scope, including subjects dealing with matters of cultural interpretation and design in both architecture and urban design, as well as the relationship of urban form to issues of economic development, historic conservation, housing provision and resource sustainability. He has served as a principal investigator on projects sponsored by a wide range of U.S. government agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Energy, Commerce, Treasury, and the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation, as well as on projects sponsored by private foundations and work for overseas organizations in East Asia, Latin America, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. He has served as an advisor to a number of cities on matters of urban design and planning including Beijing, Guiyang, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuhan and Wenzhou in China and Barcelona in Spain. In addition, from his academic base at Harvard, Rowe has conducted locally-sponsored studies for significant areas in cities, on matters of conservation and new development, such as: Athens, Beirut, Rome, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Shizouka, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, Wenzhou, Suzhou, Caracas, Bogotá, and San José, Costa Rica. He has also served on the board of several cultural and academic institutions, like the Center for Canadian Architecture, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics, as well as on the board of several companies involved in low-cost housing provision and the use of environmentally sustainable technologies.
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Cheong-Chua Koon Hean
Chief Executive Officer
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Republic of Singapore
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Mrs Cheong-Chua Koon Hean is the Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), which is the national planning and conservation authority of Singapore. She is also concurrently the Deputy Secretary (Special Duties) in the Ministry of National Development.
A trained architect-planner, Mrs Cheong has had extensive experience in strategic planning, urban design and conservation. She advises the Ministry of National Development on land use and planning policies, the property market, and the government land sales programme. She has also chaired several Design Evaluation Panels and has been involved in the jury panels of major development projects in Singapore.
Mrs Cheong is a board member of the Jurong Town Corporation, which focuses on the development of industrial and business parks, as well as the National Heritage Board. She is also a Board Trustee of the international Urban Land Institute.
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Sir Peter Hall (Moderator)
Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration
University College of London
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Peter Hall is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, and Senior Research Fellow at the Young Foundation (formerly the Institute of Community Studies), where he served as Director from 2001 to 2004. From 1991 94 he was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the Secretary of State for the Environment, with special reference to issues of London and South East regional planning including the East Thames Corridor (Thames Gateway) and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. In 1998-99 he was a member of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force, which reported in June 1999. In 2006 he was a member of the Expert Advisory Committee to the Barker Review of the planning system.
He has received the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research, and is an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He holds fourteen honorary doctorates from universities in the UK, Sweden and Canada. He was knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 was named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a “Pioneer in the Life of the Nation” at a reception in Buckingham Palace. In 2003 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute, the first to be awarded for twenty years. In 2005 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Deputy Prime Minister for his contributions to urban regeneration and planning. He received the 2005 Balzan Prize for work on the Social and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of the 16th Century.
He has been a member of many British official committees including the Social Science Research Council (1974 79), the South East Regional Planning Council (1965 79), the Environmental Board (1975 79); the Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment (1977 79); the Deputy Prime Minister’s Urban Task Force (1997-99); and the Panel of Experts to the Barker Review of Land Use Planning (2006). In 2005 he was appointed Chair of ReBlackpool, the Blackpool Urban Regeneration Company.
In the United States he has given testimony to committees of Congress and of the California Legislature on the concept of the Enterprise Zone. From 1992 to 1994 he was Chairman of the Research Committee on the Urban Underclass, commissioned by the U.S. Social Science Research Council. He was a member of the Committee on the Future of the Automobile, convened by the American Academy of Sciences, which reported in 1993. He was convenor of the World Commission on 21st-Century Urbanization (Urban 21), and co-editor of its report, which was the subject of a major conference in Berlin in July 2000.
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| Tuesday, 24 June 2008 - Breakout Sessions A - Solid Waste Management |
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N.C. Vasuki
Chief Executive Officer
Delaware Solid Waste Authority, USA
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N.C. Vasuki served at Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA) for 30 years as DSWA’s only Chief Executive Officer until his retirement in 2006. DSWA is an independent body which has full control of solid waste management in the State of Delaware including licensing solid waste collection and disposal.
N.C. is a well-recognized figure in Solid Waste Management and has won numerous Landfill Excellence and Public Education Awards. He was the President of The International Solid Waste Association 2004-2006, and the President of the Solid Waste Association of North America 1991-1992. N.C. is also an author of 70 technical papers and one Reference book.
His professional memberships include Solid Waste Association of North America, National Society of Professional Engineers, Water Environment Federation, Society of American Military Engineers, Delaware Academy of Science, New York Academy of Science, Sigma Xi — The Scientific Research Society, Rotary Club, and the International Solid Waste Association.
N.C. graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering in June of 1959 from University of Mysore in Mysore City, India. He obtained his Masters in Civil Engineering in June of 1963 from The University of Delaware. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Delaware and Diplomate, The American Academy of Environmental Engineers.
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Toshiyasu Noda
Director, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)
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Mr. Toshi Noda is the Director of UN-HABITAT’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, where he is responsible for overseeing agency’s regional activities covering broad and multifaceted aspects of human settlements, ranging from poverty alleviation, to localizing the MDGs, to post-disaster and post-conflict reconstruction.
A Japanese national, Mr. Noda obtained his Master’s degree in Environmental Planning from Hokkaido University in 1979. He specializes in environmental planning and management, disaster preparedness and management, and development planning at both community and national levels. He joined the National Land Agency (currently Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), in the Prime Minister’s Office of the Government of Japan, where he supervised a number of critical national planning policies including national development plans, land use administration and establishment of national information systems on disaster prevention and management. He has held Chief and Directorship positions in the Human Settlements Coordination and Disaster Preparedness and Coordination Divisions, most recently serving as the Director for National Planning Division, National and Regional Planning Bureau, where he was responsible for the establishment of the Integrated National Development Plan.
During his career with the Government of Japan, he was dispatched to key positions and committees in a number of international organizations including UNCHS-HABITAT (1983-1985), UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva (1989-1992), and UN-HABITAT (2002-2004). In September 2006, Mr. Noda was appointed Director of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN-HABITAT.
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Peter Woods
Secretary-General
United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific
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Peter Woods had a career of over twenty-six years as a Local Government politician. He was Mayor of Concord for over ten years and served as a long-standing State and Federal Local Government President in Australia and Asia-Pacific President and World Vice President of the International Union of Local Authorities.
Besides taking a strong leadership role in promoting women representation, provision for ethnic minorities and multi-cultural issues generally, he was also a Board Member of the Environment Protection Authority for ten years, numerous other environmental agencies and was actively involved in supporting the concept of waste as a resource, pre-cycling, re-cycling and environmental sustainability.
He has degrees in Education and Sociology and was awarded the Order of Australia Medal, the Outstanding Service Medal and the honour Emeritus Mayor for his service to Local Government.
Following political retirement he was appointed to the post Secretary-General, United Cities and Local Governments (Asia-Pacific) in July 2006.
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Joseph Hui
Director-General, Environmental Protection
National Environment Agency
Republic of Singapore
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Mr Joseph Hui was appointed Director-General of Environmental Protection Division, National Environment Agency (NEA) on 1 Jan 2007. He is responsible for four departments and a unit in the National Environment Agency – Pollution Control Department; Waste Management Department, Resource Conservation Department, Centre for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Science, and the Environmental Technology Unit.
His responsibilities include setting up and overseeing an integrated solid waste management system covering refuse collection and disposal including the operation and maintenance of four waste-to-energy refuse incineration plants and a sanitary landfill, waste minimization and recycling, energy efficiency and clean energy, management of hazardous materials and toxic industrial wastes, pollution control, radiation protection as well as research & development.
Mr Hui is a UK Colombo Plan scholar and Canadian Commonwealth Scholar. He graduated from the University of Leeds (UK) in 1975 and obtained his Masters of Engineering (Environmental Science) from University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 1981.
Mr Hui is married with 4 children.
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Anne Scheinberg (Moderator)
Senior Adviser and Project Manager
WASTE - Advisers on Urban Environment and Development
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Ms. Scheinberg is a solid waste specialist, planner, and practitioner, with 30 years of professional activity in waste management and recycling in North America, Europe, the Balkans, East Africa, Central America, and Asia. She is committed to facilitating private sector and civil society participation in urban environmental policy formation, modernisation and improvement of urban services, urban upgrading, sustainable modernisation, and environmental management. Recently she has been working on integrating the informal sector waste in the modernisation process of waste management, and also on organic waste management at household level. Her other areas of specialisation include waste and recycling collection; transfer; recycling markets; composting; micro-privatisation; gender analysis; good governance/private sector participation issues for local authorities; and civil society/MSE strengthening. She has 20 years of management and executive experience, including founding and operating her own micro-enterprise. Prior to that she worked for five years in the (US) recycling industry, operating redemption centres and working for the glass and paper industries. Ms. Scheinberg holds a BA in Anthropology, an MSc in Sociolinguistics, and a Masters in Public Administration. Ms. Scheinberg is from the US, now lives and works in the Netherlands, with her husband and stepchildren, and is studying for a doctorate in Environmental Policy.
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| Tuesday, 24 June 2008 - Breakout Sessions A - Land Transportation |
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Hans Rat
Secretary-General
International Association of Public Transport (UITP)
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Hans Rat has been the Secretary General of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) since 19 June 1998, having his contract renewed for a third term in 2006. |
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UITP’s expansion onto the global marketplace |
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the active involvement of UITP members in their Association’s activities. |
In 1990 Mr Rat was appointed as Managing Director and a Board Member of NV Verenigd Streekvervoer Nederland, a holding company which owned public transport, taxi and coach companies. He was responsible for the group’s marketing and information technology and he shared responsibilities on strategy and international affairs. He was also President of the Dutch Pedestrians Association (2000).
In 1975 he was appointed as Secretary to the Public Transport Division of KNVTO and in 1978 he became the Deputy General Secretary of that Association. He was responsible for the Association’s contribution to public transport’s policy in several ways, such as the introduction of a nation-wide tariff system for public transport which is still unique in the world.
In 1973 he joined the Royal Dutch Association of Transport Companies (KNVTO) as a junior staff member where he specialised in financial matters for companies operating in the following sectors: public transport, road, haulage, coaches and taxis.
Mr Rat’s involvement in UITP dates back to before his role as Secretary General with previous offices including Chairman of the Commission on Transport Economics, Vice-President, and member of the European Union Committee.
Mr Rat was born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands in 1945. He graduated in International Economics at the University of Tilburg. He went on to be a stagiaire at the European Community Commission in Brussels for six months.
Mr Rat is married with five children and lives both in Brussels and in the old ‘silver town’ of Schoonhoven near Utrecht. His leisure pursuits include sailing his 80-year-old sailing barge, rowing and, in the past, running the New York Marathon, an event in which he took part several times. |
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Heather Webster
Executive Director
Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, Public Transport Division, Australia
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Heather Webster is the Executive Director of South Australia’s, Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, Public Transport Division, and the elected Chair of UITP for Australia and New Zealand. |
Over the last eight years, Heather has been a key player in improving patronage and the performance of Adelaide’s public transport system. She has a passion for public transport and the pivotal role of public transport in the way our cities and communities develop. She believes partnerships with private sector providers and the engagement of young people are essential for a successful public transport future.
Adelaide born, Heather has degrees in Science, Librarianship and an MBA.
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Enrique Penalosa
Former Mayor of Bogota
Bogota
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Enrique Penalosa is an accomplished leader, who has achieved positive results in diverse activities in which he has been involved. He is also an influential thinker on urban challenges particularly those related to sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and well being. |
Penalosa has lectured internationally in numerous environmental, urban design and policy and university forums and has advised governments in Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America and the US. His vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies in numerous cities throughout the world. He currently is Senior International Advisor to the ITDP (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) of New York and the Hewlett Foundation and a member of the experts’ team of the Urban Age Project of the London School of Economics. He works as consultant on Urban Vision, Strategy and Policy.
As Mayor of Bogota, the 7 million inhabitants’ capital of Colombia, Penalosa profoundly transformed the city, turning it from one with neither bearings, nor self esteem or hope into an international example for improvements in quality of life, mobility and equity in developing world cities. During his 1998-2001 tenure –the Colombian Constitution does not allow for immediate reelection, Mr. Penalosa implemented an environmentally and socially sustainable model which prioritizes public transport, public pedestrian spaces and children’s happiness.
He created TransMilenio, probably the world’s best bus-based transit system; a network of bicycle paths; slum improvement projects; a land bank to provide low income housing with quality urbanism; greenways and pedestrian promenades through low income neighborhoods; radical improvements to the city center; daily car use restrictions during peak hours and an annual Car Free Day; formidable libraries and parks; high quality public schools managed through a innovative scheme by the best private schools in the country.
Penalosa’s ideas and proposals have been featured in many international publications and he has also published books and articles in periodicals and books. He emphasizes that a humane city is the best instrument for competitiveness in the new century, when attracting highly qualified and creative individuals will be especially crucial for economic development. |
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Sanjeev Kumar Lohia
Director
Urban Transport Division, Ministry of Urban Development, India
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Presently working as “Director – Urban Transport” in the Ministry of Urban Development Government of India for last two and half years , Sanjeev Kumar Lohia has around 20 years of experience in transportation systems. He is an officer from the 1986 batch of the prestigious Indian Railway Service of Engineers. On the academic side, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Master’s degree in Systems and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is now pursuing his PHD in urban transportation from Institute of Technology, Delhi. Sanjeev Kumar Lohia has also undergone extensive training programs in the Indian Railways, as well as training programs of the World Bank and other multilateral agencies in infrastructure systems and finance.
Sanjeev Kumar Lohia therefore has a very strong academic, experiential, and administrative skill base in Transportation Systems, with domain knowledge of public-private partnership models.
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October 2, 1964 |
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Indian |
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301/2B, Railway Officers Enclave Chelmsford Road New Delhi 110 055 |
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Sklohia65@gmail.com |
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| Masters in Technology, Systems and Management |
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
1988 |
| Bachelor of Technology (Civil) |
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
1986 |
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| Management Development Programme |
Railway Staff College, Baroda |
1993 |
| Track Management System |
IRICEN, Pune |
1993 |
| Frontiers in Infrastructure Financing |
World Bank and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Goa |
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| Communication skills, water supply programme |
Water Supply Program by World Bank, Thailand, Bangkok |
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| Workshop on Climate change Initiatives |
ADB, Philippines |
2006 |
| BRTS and Urban Planning |
Brazil (Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Porto alegre) |
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| Exposure and interaction with various metro technology providers and manufacturers |
UBI France, Paris |
2006 |
| Intelligent Transport Systems |
IIT, Chennai |
2006 |
| Urban Transport Planning Workshops |
Indore/Kolkata |
2006 |
| Urban Bus Management Systems |
World Bank, Washington |
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| Urban Transport Systems and Urban Planning, signing of MOU with Columbia |
USA-Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Columbia, Bogota, Pereira |
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| Urban Transport Systems and Urban Planning and heritage preservation |
Japan- Tokio, Kyoto
Korea- Seoul
Singapore |
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Pune, Jaipur |
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Indore |
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| Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India |
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Director |
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From December 1, 2005 till date |
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New Delhi |
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Policy and Law Formulations |
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Concession agreements |
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Appraisals of comprehensive traffic & transportation studies |
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Comprehensive Mobility plans |
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Coordination with State Govts |
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Appraisal of Detailed Project Reports |
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Director-Works |
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From August 28, 2002 till November 30, 2005 |
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New Delhi |
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Appraisal, sanctioning, financing and monitoring of all construction projects over Indian Railways. |
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Budget preparation |
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Divisional Superintending Engineer |
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July 4, 2001 till August 20, 2002 |
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New Delhi |
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Civil maintenance of track and associated structures |
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Operations, material management and human resource management |
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Tendering and contract management |
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Deputy Chief Engineer, Survey and Construction |
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March 7, 1997 till June 27, 2001 |
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Udhampur |
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Alignment surveys & estimate preparations |
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Construction In-charge |
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Materials management |
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Tendering and Contract Management |
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Yam Ah Mee
Chief Executive
Land Transport Authority
Republic of Singapore
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BG (NS) Yam Ah Mee was in the airforce before starting his career with the Civil Service. He was transferred to the Public Service Division in August 1998 and appointed the Deputy Secretary (Development)(PSD) and the CEO & Dean of the Civil Service College. He joined Ministry of Transport as Deputy Secretary (Sea & Air) on 1 June 2004 and appointed Chief Executive, Land Transport Authority on 11 May 2005.
In his previous capacity as Deputy Secretary (Development), he oversaw the Scenario Planning Office (SPO) and the Public Service 21 Office (PSO). The SPO helps to foster a public service that thinks critically and strategically about Singapore's future. The PSO supports the Public Service for the 21st Century initiatives to help ministries, organs of state and statutory boards to anticipate, welcome and manage changes.
As CEO & Dean of the Civil Service College, he oversaw the central training and development institution for civil servants. The College comprises the Institute of Policy Development (IPD), Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), Civil Service College Consultants (CSCC) and Civil Service College International (CSCI). The College also serves as a central contact for international organisations on public sector reform and government management in Singapore.
As Deputy Secretary (Sea & Air) in the Ministry of Transport (MOT), he oversaw the development of strategies and policy direction in the Sea and Air Transport Sectors, as the ministry strives to make Singapore an international civil aviation and maritime centre for the region. He was also in charge of Corporate Development issues in MOT in its ongoing efforts to achieve organisational excellence.
A Singaporean by birth, BG (NS) Yam won a scholarship with the SAF, and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a First Class Honours in Engineering. He subsequently received his Master in Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master in Public Administration degree from the Harvard University in 1991. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) during the National Day Awards in 1992. BG (NS) Yam has also recently attended the Harvard Advanced Management Programme in May 2006.
Married with 3 children, BG (NS) Yam also leads an active life pursuing interests such as private-pilot licence flying and golf. He is also the immediate past President of Harvard Club of Singapore, immediate past President of Singapore Youth Flying Club, a member of the Board of Governors of The Hwa Chong Institution (then The Chinese High and Hwa Chong Junior College), Director of Neptune Shipmanagement Services (Pte) Ltd, Member of Management Board of Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing Processing (CRISP), Director of EZ-Link Pte Ltd and Chairman of MSI Global Pte Ltd.
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Vukan Vuchic (Moderator)
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
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VUKAN R. VUCHIC
Dr. Vuchic is a UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his diploma in Transportation Engineering from the University of Belgrade in his native country of Yugoslavia (1960) and then the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California at Berkeley (1965-66).
Dr. Vuchic joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and initiated the graduate program in Transportation Engineering. He has been consultant to US Department of Transportation, cities of Belgrade, Edmonton, Lima, Naples, Perth, Philadelphia, Rome and others, as well as to many transit agencies, including Buffalo, Caracas, Chicago, Manchester, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, and Washington.
Dr. Vuchic has presented major seminars to Ministries of Transport, lectured at 76 universities, at many professional conferences and scientific institutions. He has authored about 150 reports, book sections and articles published in the U.S. and foreign countries, mostly on various aspects of urban transportation systems, planning and policies. His first book, Urban Public Transportation Systems and Technology was published by Prentice-Hall in 1981. In 1982 he became the first recipient of the "Dr. Friedrich Lehner Medal" in Germany, given to "persons who have dedicated a life work to urban public transportation and excelled in that effort". In 1990 he was awarded the University of Pennsylvania's UPS Foundation Chair in Transportation. In 1994 he was elected Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). In 2006, he became Foreign Member of the Russian Academy for Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAASN). His research focusing on an international comparison of urban transportation systems and policies, has been published in the “Transit Trilogy:”
Transportation for Livable Cities (CUPR, Rutgers University, 1999)
Urban Transit Operations, Planning and Economics, and
Urban Transit Systems and Technology (John Wiley & Sons, 2005 and 2007).
Dozens of Professor Vuchic’s students hold leading positions as transportation professionals at universities, consulting firms and government agencies in this and many other countries.
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| Tuesday, 24 June 2008 - Breakout Sessions A - Biodiversity in Sustainable Cities |
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Ahmed Djoghlaf
Executive Secretary
United Nations Environment Programme / Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD)
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| Place and date of birth: |
Algiers , 25 November 1953 |
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Algerian |
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Married, two children |
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Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity |
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Minister Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations |
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PhD, Political Sciences, 1983, University of Nancy , France |
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Master of Arts, Government and Politics, 1990, St. John’s University , New York , USA |
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Certificate of International Law and Diplomacy, 1990, St. John’s University , New York , USA |
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Certificate delivered in 1988 at the training seminar on the Bretton Woods Institutions, The World Bank, Washington DC |
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Specialized degree in European Economic Community, 1980, Center for European Studies, University of Nancy , France |
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Master of Political Sciences and Information Sciences,1980, University of Lille , France |
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Law University Degree, 1976, University of Algiers , Algeria |
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| 2006 – Present |
Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity; |
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Assistant Executive Director of UNEP and Director of the Division of the Global Environment Facility Coordination; |
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Director of the UNEP’s Division of the Global Environment Facility Coordination; |
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Executive Coordinator of UNEP/GEF Coordination Office; |
| 1995 |
Acting Principal Officer on intergovernmental issues and cooperative arrangements at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in charge of the preparation of the Second Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Jakarta, 1995 and the first meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Paris, September 1995; |
| May - Dec 1994 |
Special Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity in charge of the preparation of the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the preparation of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nassau in December 1994 |
| Jan - May 1994 |
Special Adviser on environmental issues to the Prime Minister of Algeria with the rank of Permanent Secretary |
| 1992 – 1993 |
Adviser to three Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Algeria on environmental issues and in charge of the preparation of meetings of the Cabinet of the Government; |
| 1990 – 1991 |
Assistant Director of Economic Studies in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria, providing strategic and policy advice on international economic and environmental issues to the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; |
| 1986 – 1990 |
Counsellor to the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations, New York, in charge of economic and environmental issues of the United Nations General Assembly and its relevant associated organizations and organs such as ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, UNEP, UNDP, UNFPA, FAO and UNCTAD; |
| 1985 – 1986 |
Assistant Director a.i. of Social, Cultural and Scientific issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria, in charge of issues related to the United Nations General Assembly, ECOSOC, UNESCO, IAEA, WHO, UNICEF, UNEP, environmental conventions and UNFPA; |
| 1983 – 1984 |
First Secretary at the Embassy of Algeria in New Delhi in charge of economic issues of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Chairmanship of India; |
| 1980 – 1983 |
Head of the North-South desk in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria, in charge of the North-South dialogue, including the Global Negotiations process, UNGA, UNCTAD, ECOSOC, Group of 77 , Non-Aligned Movement and South-South Cooperation; |
| 1977 – 1978 |
Legal adviser at the Algerian National Construction Company. |
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| Experience of Relevance to the Convention on Biological Diversity |
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Officer-in-Charge of the Interim Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on several occasions in 1994 and 1995; |
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Assisted the Chair and the Bureau and supervised the preparation of the report and decisions adopted by the Second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention for the preparation of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, June 1994; |
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Assisted the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on all policy and organizational issues related to the preparation and convening of the First meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in Nassau , Bahamas in December 1994; |
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Coordinated the preparation of major reports including the report on the selection of the competent international organization to carry out the function of the Secretariat and the mid term work programme of the Convention on Biological Diversity submitted to the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties; |
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Acted as the Secretary of the Plenary and the Committee of the whole first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, held in Nassau, Bahamas, December 1994 and in this capacity assisted the Chair and the Bureau and supervised the preparation of the report and decisions adopted by the meeting as well as the Bahamas Ministerial Declaration; |
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Secretary of the Panel of Experts on Biosafety, Cairo , Egypt , 1-5 May 1995; |
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Secretary of the Open-ended Group of Experts on Biosafety , Madrid , Spain , 24-28 July 1995; |
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Coordinated the preparation and acted as the Secretary of the first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Science and Technology of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Paris , September 1995; |
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Secretary of all the regional preparatory meetings to the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in 1995 in Buenos Aires, Pretoria and Jakarta; |
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Coordinated the preparation of major documents submitted to the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in Jakarta in November 1995; |
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Lead author of the report on administration, guidelines for the preparation of the first national report of Parties, as well as the location of the permanent Secretariat; |
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Secretary of the Plenary and the Committee of the whole of the Bureau during the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, November 1995, and in this capacity assisted the Chair and the Bureau and supervised the preparation of the report and decisions adopted by the meeting, as well as the preparation and negotiation of the Jakarta Ministerial Declaration; |
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Detailed knowledge of the functioning and operations of the Global Environment Facility as the financial mechanism of the Convention and coordinated the preparation and implementation of the UNEP/GEF GEF portfolio on biodiversity worth US$ 174 million and comprising 120 activities, as well as the UNEP/GEF biosafety programme worth US$ 60 million and comprising three major components implemented in 137 countries; |
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Strong working relation with other biodiversity conventions, including CITES, CMS and Ramsar, in addition to other biodiversity-related institutions such as IUCN and WCMC; |
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Detailed knowledge of the other Rio Conventions, namely the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; |
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Extensive knowledge of the global environment processes of the United Nations system, including the role and mandate of the Commission on Sustainable Development, the main United Nations bodies in charge of environmental issues including the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, ECOSOC and UNEP; |
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Good communication and outreach skills as evidenced by the coordination of the preparation of more than 20 brochures on UNEP/GEF activities and other relevant communication materials including preparation of relevant press releases and the coordination of the preparation of two special issues on GEF of UNEP’s magazine “Our Planet”; |
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Good managerial experiences through the supervision of a team comprising more than 100 staff members of 35 different nationalities from all the UN geographical regions with due regard to gender. |
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| Diplomatic Responsibilities |
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Negotiator of the United Nations General Assembly resolution 44/228 of 22 December 1989 convening the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; |
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General Rapporteur of the Preparatory Committee of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and Coordinator of the negotiation of Chapter 2 on International Cooperation of Agenda 21, 1990-1992; |
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Special Assistant to the General Rapporteur of the Rio Summit , June 1992; |
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Chairman of one of the two Committees of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the Convention on Desertification, 1993-1994; |
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Vice-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the Framework Convention on Climate Change and Chairman of one of the Committees established at the seventh session on the Preamble, the Objective and the Principles of the Convention, 1991-1994; |
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Member of the Perez Guerrero Expert Group on Economic Co-operation among the Developing Countries, 1991-1994; |
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Chairman of the Trust Fund on the implementation of the Caracas Programme of Action on South-South Cooperation jointly managed by UNDP (TCDC Unit) and the Group of 77 , 1992-1993; |
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Vice-Chairman of the Eleventh Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development, April 1991; |
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