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Bloomberg CityLab 2024 will convene more than 500 mayors and leading policymakers, innovators, and creatives. Through panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, interactive breakout sessions, artistic performances, and excursions across Mexico City, the summit will delve into the solutions shaped by city halls around the world that are poised to reshape nations.

Speakers

Bloomberg CityLab 2024 will convene more than 500 mayors and leading policymakers, innovators, and creatives. Through panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, interactive breakout sessions, artistic performances, and excursions across Mexico City, the summit will delve into the solutions shaped by city halls around the world that are poised to reshape nations.

Enrique Acevedo

News Anchor and Senior Special Correspondent for TelevisaUnivision Mexico City, Mexico

Susan Aitken

Leader of Glasgow City Council Glasgow, United Kingdom

Fola Akinnibi

Reporter at Bloomberg CityLab New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Santiago Amador

Former Head of the iBO Public Innovation Lab for the City of Bogotá, Colombia

Margaret Anadu

Senior Partner at The Vistria Group New York City, New York, U.S.A.

James Anderson

Government Innovation Lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, New York, U.S.A

Chelsea Andrews

President and Executive Director of the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A.

José Antonio Peña Merino

Head of Mexico’s Telecommunications and Digital Transformation Agency Mexico City, Mexico

H.E. Sakaja Arthur Johnson, EGH

Governor of Nairobi City County Kenya

Carina Arvizu Machado

Lecturer of Urban Studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico City, Mexico

Darren Baine

Founder of the Young Eye Initiative Kitchener, Canada

Vera Bergengruen

National Security Reporter, Wall Street Journal Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Fatmata Binta

Founder and Chef of Dine on a Mat and Fulani Kitchen Foundation Accra, Ghana

Michael R. Bloomberg

Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies and Former Mayor of New York, New York, U.S.A. (2002-2013)

Clara Brugada

Mayor of Mexico City, Mexico

Manoella Buffara

Head Chef at Restaurante Manu Curitiba, Brazil

Alejandro Calvillo

Director of El Poder del Consumidor, A.C. Mexico City, Mexico

Fernanda Canales

Architect Mexico City, Mexico

Kriston Capps

Staff Writer at Bloomberg CityLab Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Elsa Carvajal Peralta

Singer-Songwriter and Producer Mexico City, Mexico

Jose Castillo

Founder and Principal of a|911 and Chair of the Cornell University Department of Architecture Mexico City, Mexico

Lourdes Castro Ramirez

Chief Housing and Homelessness Solutions Officer for the City of Los Angeles California, U.S.A.

Rossana Elena Chahla

Mayor of San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Rachel Cohen

Policy Correspondent at Vox Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Maddie Davidson

Executive Board Member of the Muhlenberg College Environmental Action Team Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Foreign Secretary of Mexico Mexico City, Mexico

Aleksandra Dulkiewicz

Mayor of Gdańsk, Poland

Sarah Dusseault

Chief Strategist for LA4LA Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Katya Echazarreta

Electrical Engineer at NASA and Founder of Fundación Espacial Katya Echazarreta

Alejandro Echeverri

Co-Founder and Director of URBAM at EAFIT University and Distinguished Professor in Urbanism at Tecnológico de Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico

Eric Enriquez

Mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Oriol Estela Barnet

General Coordinator for the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona, Spain

Washington Fajardo

Sector Senior Specialist and Cities Lab Coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Eyal Feder-Levy

Co-Founder and CEO, Zencity New York, New York, U.S.A.

Michael Feigelson

CEO of the Van Leer Foundation Den Haag, Netherlands

Nicole Flatow

Managing Editor at Bloomberg CityLab Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Adam Freed

Principal at Bloomberg Associates New York, New York, U.S.A

Namon Freeman

Housing Manager for Bloomberg Associates New York, New York, U.S.A.

Brian Friedberg

Senior Researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge

Julian Gallardo

City Manager of Renca, Chile

Elliot Gerson

Executive Vice President of Policy Programs and International Partners at the Aspen Institute Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Linda Gibbs

Principal at Bloomberg Associates New York, New York, U.S.A.

Ravi Gurumurthy

Group CEO of Nesta and the Behavioural Insights Team London, England

Michael Hancharyk

Environment Manager for the City of Leduc, Canada

Patricia E. Harris

CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, New York, U.S.A.

Sascha Haselmayer

Program Manager for the Government Innovation Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies Berlin, Germany

David Holt

Mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Josh Humphries

Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

April Ignacio

Co-Founder of Indivisible Tohono Sells, Arizona, U.S.A.

Ekrem İmamoğlu

Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey

David Jackson

Director of Local Transformative Finance at United Nations Capital Development Fund New York, New York, U.S.A.

Mike Johnston

Mayor of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

Claudia Juech

New Initiative Development Lead for the Government Innovation Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, New York, U.S.A.

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities Paris, France

Queen Omagano Kamati

Mayor of Windhoek, Namibia

Rainer Kattel

Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose London, England

Bulbul Kaul

Senior Director for Strategy and Development for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative at Harvard’s Bloomberg Center for Cities Cambridge, Massachusetts

Asma Khan

Founder and Chef of Darjeeling Express London, England

Michael Koh

Executive Fellow with the Centre for Livable Cities at Singapore’s Ministry of National Development, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Alex Kouts

CEO of Indigov Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Priya Krishna

Author and Video Host for The New York Times Food Section New York, New York, U.S.A.

Ronnie Vicente Lagnada

Mayor of Butuan City, Philippines

Matteo Lepore

Mayor of Bologna, Italy

Jessica Lima

Founder of Vecino Calidad Guatemala City, Guatemala

Albert Lin

Scientist, Technologist, and Explorer San Diego, California, U.S.A.

Lesley Lokko, OBE

Architect and Founder of the African Futures Institute Accra, Ghana

Daphne Lundi

Public Scholar at The City College of New York Moynihan Center New York, New York, U.S.A.

Laura Manley

Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Anna Martin

Host of The New York Times' “Modern Love” Podcast New York, New York, U.S.A.

Sergio Martinez

Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Mobility for Bogotá, Colombia

Ján Mazúr

Chief City Strategist for the City of Bratislava, Slovakia

Lauren McLean

Mayor of Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.

Román Meyer Falcón

Former Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development for Mexico (2018-2024) Mexico City, Mexico

Florian Meyer

Division Head in the Department of Social Affairs for City of Zurich, Switzerland

Carolina Millan

Mexico City Bureau Chief at Bloomberg News Mexico City, Mexico

Atenea Morales de la Cruz

Executive Digital Editor of Vogue Mexico and Latin America Mexico City, Mexico

Nahashon Muguna

Managing Director of the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company Nairobi, Kenya

Sara Nelson

President of Seattle City Council, Washington, U.S.A.

Ron Nirenberg

Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.

Enrique Norten

Founder and Director of TEN Arquitectos Mexico City, Mexico

Kim Norton

Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Marilia Ortiz

Finance Secretary of the City of Niterói, Brazil

María Ortiz Pérez

Managing Director of the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Cherelle L. Parker

Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Enrique Peñalosa

Author of "Equality and the City" and Former Mayor of Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

Daniela Peñaloza

Mayor of Las Condes, Chile

Cruz Pérez Cuéllar

Mayor of Juárez, Mexico

Oleg Polovynko

Digitalization Advisor to the Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine

Eduardo Porter

Columnist at The Washington Post Mexico City, Mexico

Dan Porterfield

President and CEO of The Aspen Institute Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Jaime Pujol Carabantes

Urban Planner in the Heritage Management Department for the City of Santiago, Chile

Samuel Pyne

Mayor of Kumasi, Ghana

Ricardo Quiñónez

Mayor of Guatemala City, Guatemala

Pedro Reyes

Sculptor Mexico City, Mexico

Felipe Ribeiro

Chief Creative Officer at Wieden+Kennedy Portland Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Camila Rodriguez Hernandez

Regional Manager of Infrastructure and Energy for Europe and Latin America at the International Finance Corporation Mexico City, Mexico

Ben Rogers

European Cities Program Director at London School of Economics London, England

Shin Sang-Jin

Mayor of Seongnam City, South Korea

Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

Co-host of “Alt.Latino” on NPR Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Vivian Schiller

Executive Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Liz Schwartz

Director of Communications & Strategy at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Megan Sheekey

Strategic Partnerships Advisor at Bloomberg Associates New York, New York, U.S.A.

Kenneth Sim

Managing Director for Strategy and Research at the Chandler Institute of Governance Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Matt Simon

Senior Writer at Grist San Francisco, California

Brett Smiley

Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

Lucía Soca

Advisor in the Land and Habitat Division for the City of Montevideo, Uruguay

Juan Pablo Spinetto

Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion Mexico City, Mexico

Leah Tivoli

Director of Innovation and Performance for the City of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Jimena Tolama

Editor in Chief of Bloomberg Línea Mexico City, Mexico

Daniel Valdez

Chief External Affairs Officer at Welcoming America Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Matúš Vallo

Mayor of Bratislava Slovakia

Juhana Vartiainen

Mayor of Helsinki, Finland

Maria Vassilakou

Founder and CEO of Vienna Solutions / Vassilakou Urban Consulting Vienna, Austria

Erion Veliaj

Mayor of Tirana, Albania

Julieta Villa

Head of Climate Change Department for the City of Mendoza, Argentina

Berry Vrbanovic

Mayor of Kitchener

Berry Vrbanovic

Mayor of Kitchener

Cliff Walls

Environmental Sustainability and Resiliency Manager for the City of East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.

Mitchell Weiss

Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge

Jenn White

Host of NPR's "1A" Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Antha Williams

Environment Lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, New York, U.S.A.

Sarah Williams

Director of the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Civic Data Design Lab at MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Justin Worland

Senior Correspondent at TIME Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Candelaria Yanzi

Vice President of Red de Innovación Local

Mauricio Zunino

Mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay

Julia Alvarez Icaza

Secretary of the Environment for Mexico City, Mexico

Tatiana Bilbao

Principal and Founder of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO Mexico City, Mexico

Stephanie Dock

Autonomous Vehicles Program Manager for the Department of Transportation Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

Volodymyr Klitschko

Ana Lilia Rivera

Senator of the State of Tlaxcala, Mexico

Florence Namayanja

Mayor of Masaka City, Uganda

Rodrigo Rivero Borrell

Founder and CEO of Reurbano Mexico City, Mexico

Carole Saab

CEO of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Ottawa, Canada

Víctor Julián Sánchez Acosta

Mayor of Soacha, Colombia