World Cities Summit 2012

Programme Highlights

WCS Mayors Forum Date: 1 July 2012	World Cities Summit Expo Date: 2 - 4 July 2012	Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize Award Ceremony & Banquet Date: 2 July 2012	Onsite Visits Date: 4 July 2012

Watch this space for more updates on 2012 Speakers & Delegates WCS 2010 Speakers						WCS 2010 Delegates
Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological... Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka UN Under-Secretary-General... Mr Bruno Berthon Global Managing Director, Accenture Sustainability... Mr Herbert Dreiseitl Founder, Partner, Artist and Landscape Architect Mr Jeff Cooper Vice President International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) Mr Jim Clifton Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Gallup Organization Dr Vivian Balakrishnan Minister Ministry of Community Development... Mr Joel Kotkin Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University... Professor Joshua (Jim) Swithenbank Chairman of the SUWIC Energy and... Mr Jonathan Mills Festival Director and Chief Executive of the Edinburgh... Professor & Dr Wang Xiangrong Regional Vice-Chair of East Asia... Dr. Noeleen Heyzer Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Executive... Mr Peter Schwartz Cofounder and Chairman, Global Business Network Mr Richard M. Rosan President Urban Land Institute Foundation Dr. Robert W. Schumacher General Director, Advanced Product & Business Development Professor Dr. Steffen Lehmann UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban... Ms Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology Columbia... Mr Simon Tay Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs... Dr Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Director, International Making Cities... Assoc. Prof. Mark J. McDonnell Director of the Australian Research...						Craig Wallace Minister for Main Roads, Queensland Australia Juma Bin Ahmed Al Ka'abi Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture Bahrain Lebonaamang Mokalake Minister of Local Government Bostwana Jiang Sixian Vice-Governor, Hainan Province China Katrin Lompscher Senator for Health, the Environment and Consumer Protection, Berlin Germany Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet Ngor Secretary for Development, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Hong Kong Djoko Kirmanto Minister of Public Works Indonesia Hikaru Kobayashi Administrative Vice-Minister of the Environment Japan Fahil Safar Ali Safar Minister of Public Works and Municipal Affairs Kuwait Robinson Njeru Githae Minister of Nairobi Metropolitan Development Kenya Bountiem Phitsamay Minister & Head of Science, Technology & Environment Agency Laos Sommad Pholsena Minister of Public Works and Transport Laos Abdul Rahman Zohari Sin Tun Abang Haji Openg Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Sarawak Malaysia Lim Guan Eng Chief Minister of Penang Malaysia Abdul Khalid Ibrahim Chief Minister of Selangor Malaysia Marta Riera de Alvares Vice-Minister of Housing Panama Elzbieta Bienkowska Minister of Regional Development Poland Marat R. Safiullin Minister of Economy, Republic of Tatarstan Russia Abdulrahman Al-Dahmash General Supervisor of Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs Saudi Arabia Vincent Nyanzi Minister of State for Economic Monitoring Uganda Zhang Jianfei Mayor, Changsha China Graeme Sawyer Lord Mayor, Darwin Australia Michael Harbison Lord Mayor, Adelaide Australia Robert Doyle Lord Mayor, Melbourne Australia Guy Lauwers Deputy Mayor for Environment, Antwerp Belgium Chen Guoying Mayor, TangshanChina Kep Chuk Tema Governor, Phnom Penh Cambodia Sou Phirin Governor, Siem Reap Cambodia Claudio Orrego Mayor, Pe�alol�n Chile Huang Qifan Mayor, Chongqing China Wang Zhihou Vice-Mayor, JilinChina Dieter Salomon Lord Mayor, FreiburgGermany Mercy Williams Mayor, CochinIndia Made Mangku Pastika Governor, BaliIndonesia Zulkifli Nurdin Governor, JambiIndonesia Ilham Arif Siradjuddin Mayor, MakassarIndonesia Matteo Renzi Mayor, FlorenceItaly Fumiko Hayashi Mayor, YokohamaJapan Akhmetzhan Yessimov Akim, Almaty CityKazakhstan Sonexay Siphandone Governor, ChampasakLaos James Chan Khay Syn Mayor, Kuching SouthMalaysia Bob Harvey Mayor, WaitakereNew Zealand Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman A. Mayor, Al-MadinahSaudi Arabia Fahad Al-Jubeer Mayor, Al-AhsaSaudi Arabia Ossama Fadhul Albar Mayor, MakkahSaudi Arabia Jeong Lak-hyeong Vice-Mayor, BusanSouth Korea I�aki Azkuna Mayor, BilbaoSpain Pilar Mart�nez Vice Mayor of Urban Planning, Development and Housing, MadridSpain Omar Kamil Chief City Administrator, ColomboSri Lanka Ilmar Reepalu Mayor, MalmoSweden Alexander Tsch�pp�t Mayor, BerneSwitzerland Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra Governor, BangkokThailand Phil Gordon Mayor, PhoenixUSA Abdukahhar Tukhtayev Mayor, Tashkent CityUzbekistan Nguyen Hoang Son Chairman of the People's Committee, Binh DuongVietnam Tran Thanh Man Chairman of the People's Committee, Can ThoVietnam Trinh Quang Su Chairman of the People's Committee, Hai PhongVietnam Le Hoang Quan Chairman of the People's Committee, Ho Chi MinhVietnam Zhao Xiaowei Mayor, RizhaoChina Ding Zhu Vice-Mayor, HaikouChina

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