- Change Agents Reports
- Rewiring the Economy, CISL Report
- Rewiring Leadership, CISL Report
Master of Public Administration, MBA in Strategic Project Management and Bachelor of Administration with Qualification in International Business. Logistics Analyst at the Federal Data Processing Service (SERPRO), assigned to the Municipality of Belo Horizonte as Assistant Municipal Secretary for Planning, Budget and Management, also responsible for the Sub secretariat of Management Modernization, where he develops projects for digital transformation, relationship with the citizen, bureaucracy reduction, process redesign, and ICT policies. He has held other management positions in the Minas Gerais State Government. Professor of undergraduate and graduate courses in administration, logistics, public procurement, planning and public budgeting fields.
Oluwadamilola Emmanuel is the General Manager of the Lagos State Waterways. He joined the Lagos State waterways authority as the Secretary in October 2015 before becoming GM in 2017. He is a graduate of the University of Lagos (B.A English) and University of Hull (MBA with Distinction).
Hugh Cole is the Director of Policy and Strategy for the City of Cape Town, reporting to the city leadership including the Mayor. He leads the strategic planning, strategic policy, research and economic analysis functions of the City. Prior to joining the City, Hugh was the director responsible for programmes in 14 developing countries at the International Growth Centre (IGC), based at the London School of Economics. Whilst at the IGC, Hugh worked with leading urban economists to establish the Cities that Work initiative. Hugh holds degrees from the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics.
Utku Cihan received his BSc degree from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in 2005 and his MSc degree in Urban Systems and Transportation Management Program in 2013. He still continues his PhD education in the area of Sustainable Transport. Utku Cihan worked in the Transportation Department of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality from 2008 to 2019, and served as the Transportation Planning Chief and Public Transportation Services Manager. In 2019 he was appointed as the Manager of Transportation Planning in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and has been working as the Head of Transportation Department in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality since February 2020. Additionally, he is a board member of Pedestrian Association and founder member of Cycling for Transport Association in Turkey.
Professor Sir Paul Collier is a Director of the IGC and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. Collier is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Director of the International Growth Centre. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war, the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies and how to create liveable and productive cities in rapidly urbanising developing countries. From 2017-2018, Collier was the academic co-director of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development.
Marvin Rees was elected Mayor in May 2016 and Bristol became first major European city to have an elected mayor of Black African heritage. His working life began at Tearfund, before working with Sojourners in Washington, DC and President Clinton’s advisor, Dr Tony Campolo. On returning to the UK, he was a broadcast journalist at BBC Bristol, worked at the Black Development Agency supporting the BME-led voluntary sector and worked on delivering race equality in mental health with NHS Bristol’s Public Health team. He holds two Master’s Degrees in Political Theory and Government and in Global Economic Development. He is a Yale World Fellow and co-founded the City Leadership Programme. He entered the political world having graduated from Operation Black Vote and Labour Future Candidate programmes. During his first term in office, he has delivered almost 7,000 homes, announced the development of a mass transit system, provided quality work experience for over 3,500 children, developed the One City Plan, successfully bid to bring Channel 4 to Bristol and is leading the city’s response to both the climate and ecological emergencies.
Lucy Bruzzone leads CISL’s executive education engagement with the built environment sector and China. She coordinates CISL’s wider engagement with cities and the built environment and delivers sustainability programmes for senior business leaders across the sector. She is also responsible for the delivery of key cities-focused programmes for Chinese government officials including the Beijing Municipal and Guangdong Provincial Governments. Between 2018 - 2020 Lucy was the Chair of the Business & Sustainability Programme in Chile and Australia. Lucy joined CISL in 2015 from Earthwatch, an international environmental charity where she headed up Earthwatch’s Hong Kong office and oversaw operations in South East Asia. Lucy studied Geography at the University of Edinburgh and has earned the Post Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Value Chains from the University of Cambridge and completed CISL's online High Impact Leadership programme. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
The Leadership Forums look back on the progress achieved and forward to next steps and seeks to uncover the leadership qualities needed for success. The events focus on what is required for each of us to become agents of change, as ‘if we do what we’ve always done, we will get what we have always got’ and that ‘and ‘doing what we’ve always done isn’t going to create the future we need.’
City Stakeholders and Delivery Partners reflect on their experience with the projects over the past few years. They note the importance of the projects focussing on and reinforcing existing city priorities - giving the cities the space and additional expertise to facilitate change. Success is more likely when strategies have direct applications and use cases attached to them. This allows learning by doing and for stakeholders to exploit synergies between projects. The outcomes of the Global Future Cities projects show what local authorities can achieve with limited time and budget.
Inclusion and sustainability are very important pillars of the programme, and it is particularly important to identify and integrate vulnerable groups in the decision-making process at all stages of the project. Co-creation enables cities to use the social capital of communities in the formal planning processes and generate buy-in. At the end of the day, programmes and policies are about people. Stakeholder engagement and multi-agency collaboration more broadly are also raised as key success factors in the projects – the push and pull of bringing people together around a common purpose. Sometimes the process is as important as the goals and the end result.
Visionary leadership is needed to make things happen. Leaders embody and represent their organisation. Having a project champion who leads by example, is personable and approachable, and brings others on board, is critical for success. Leaders are responsible for changing cultures, particularly when introducing new processes and technologies, such as digitisation. Increasingly adaptation and response to context is a key skill for leaders. The pandemic has shown how effective leadership is dynamic. Leaders can use crises to effect needed change. Change and success only come from pushing beyond comfort zones.
- Brazil
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Turkey