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Bloomberg CityLab 2023 will feature mayors, city innovators, business leaders, urban experts, artists, activists, and more who will discuss and discover replicable solutions to pressing issues from leading their communities through rapid urbanization to confronting emerging technologies to reinvigorating economic development to solving for housing affordability.

Speakers

Bloomberg CityLab 2023 will feature mayors, city innovators, business leaders, urban experts, artists, activists, and more who will discuss and discover replicable solutions to pressing issues from leading their communities through rapid urbanization to confronting emerging technologies to reinvigorating economic development to solving for housing affordability.

Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief of Foreign Policy   New York City, U.S.A.

James Anderson

Head of Government Innovation Programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, U.S.A.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies; Mayor of New York City, 2002-2013 New York, U.S.A.

Claude Borna

Managing Director of Sèmè City Development Agency Cotonou, Benin

Muriel Bowser

Mayor of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell

Senior Program Manager for the Arts at the Aspen Institute Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Tracie Campbell

Director of the Mecklenburg County Office of Violence Prevention Charlotte, U.S.A.

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Founder and Creative Director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism New York, U.S.A.

Anita Cozart

Director of the Washington, D.C., Office of Planning Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Jerusalem Demsas

Staff Writer at The Atlantic Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Dagur Eggerston

Mayor of Reykjavik Reykjavik, Iceland

Jeff Goodell

Writer Austin, U.S.A.

Patricia E. Harris

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

Sascha Haselmayer

Author and Senior Leader at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Berlin, Germany

Claudia Juech

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

Rainer Kattel

Deputy Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College of London London, United Kingdom

Dacher Keltner

Psychology Professor at University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, U.S.A.

Scott Kratz

Senior Vice President of Building Bridges Across the River Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Mitch Landrieu

Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator at the White House Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

Faith Leach

Chief Administrative Officer of Baltimore Baltimore, U.S.A.

José Merino

Founder and Head of the Digital Agency for Public Innovation of the Government of Mexico City Mexico City, Mexico

Krista Milne

Melbourne, Australia

Wes Moore

Governor of Maryland Annapolis, U.S.A.

Eleni Myrivili

Global Chief Heat Officer at UN-Habitat and Senior Advisor at Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center Athens, Greece

Chiedo Nwankwor

Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs and Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Emily Opilo

City Hall Reporter for the Baltimore Sun Baltimore, U.S.A.

Edgar Pieterse

Director of the African Center for Cities at University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Daniel R. Porterfield

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

Diana Rodriguez Franco

Secretary for Women's Affairs of Bogotá Bogotá, Colombia

Mariela Ruiz-Angel

Director of Community Safety Department for the City of Albuquerque Albuquerque, U.S.A.

Vivian Schiller

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

Anthony Smith

Executive Director of Cities United Louisville, U.S.A.

Terrance Smith

Public Innovation Fellow at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins Mobile, U.S.A.

Matthew Thompson

Editor of Headway at The New York Times New York City, U.S.A.

James Timpson

Managing Director of Community Violence Initiatives at the Roca Impact Institute Boston, U.S.A.

Richard Trent

Executive Director of Friends of Anacostia Park Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Juhana Vartiainen

Mayor of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

Daniel Webster

Professor of American Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, U.S.A.

Justin Worland

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

Jorrit de Jong

Emma Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge, U.S.A.

Susan Aitken

City Council Leader of Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow, Scotland

Oliver Coppard

Mayor of South Yorkshire South Yorkshire, England

Nicole Flatow

Managing Editor for CityLab Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Brandon Hill

Artist and Co-Founder of No Kings Collective Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Davion Hodges

Representative of the Baltimore Squeegee Leadership Team Baltimore, U.S.A.