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Mr Cahyadi serves as Mayor of Surabaya since 26 February 2021. He was elected in the 2020 Surabaya mayoral election. Mr Cahyadi graduated with a degree in civil engineering from the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in 1999, and after a 2-year career as a consultant he began working for Surabaya's municipal government in 2001. By 2011 he was appointed to head the city government's public housing and urban planning department, and in 2018, he was appointed to head the municipal development planning body, in addition to heading the department of sanitation and public space.
Riela Fiqrina is Head of Section III Infrastructure and Regional Development Planning at the Agency of Developmental Planning, Research and Development Bandung City Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan, Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kota Bandung (BAPPELITBANG Kota Bandung). She earned her Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Social Politics of the Padjajaran University Indonesia and her Advanced master's degree was in Environmental Science from the same university. Prior to her PhD, her undergraduate study was in Landscape Architecture.
Dato’ Dr Badrul Hisham Kassim joins Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) on 2nd January 2022 and is the first Johor State Civil Servant to hold the post of the Chief Executive of IRDA, which is a Federal Statutory Body. He graduated in LL.B. (Hons) from Staffordshire Polytechnic, England in 1990 and received his M.BA from University of Leicester, England in 1999. He started his career in the Johor State Civil Service in 1992 at the State Secretary Incorporation (SSI), focusing on privatisation projects. He continued his service at the Johor Bahru Land Office, and as Private Secretary to the Menteri Besar of Johor. He was posted to Johor State Economic Planning Unit in 2004, where he spent most of his career. He returned to the State Economic Planning Unit and continued his service in other portfolios within the State, District and Local Authority, before continuing as Deputy State Secretary (Development) until December 2021.
Melissa is a Director at the Mayor’s The Civic Outcome Laboratory (CoLab), Cebu City Government. She Launched the Philippines’ first strategic design unit in local government. The Civic Outcome Laboratory (CoLab) responded to the education, mobility, and urban development challenges of the city. She is also Principal at Kilo Strategies. She was a Research Director at City Group were she established a vast global network of the most innovative cities, countries, and organizations to develop new tools improving urban life. She was a Researcher at Global Urban Futures. She holds an MA in International Affairs, major in Development + Applied Quantitative Methods from The New School, New York, USA. She holds a BA in Political Science, major in International Relations + Economics from the University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines.
Thipawan Saenchan has been working for the BMA as City Planner for over 15 years. Her main responsibilities are formulating Bangkok Comprehensive Plan and Urban Measures of development in Bangkok, as well as creating Special Districts Plan and Urban Design Projects Plan to encourage and support the implementation of the Projects. She has engaged in the Transit-Oriented Development Plan in Khlong Bang Luang Area since the Global Future Cities Programme first started in Bangkok.
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.
Craig is the Deputy Mayor of Bristol, Labour councillor for Hillfields. He is a member of the Mayor's cabinet with executive responsibility for Finance, Governance, Performance and Culture. He has responsibility for Bristol's property assets; current project deliveries totally over £100m, a capital program of over £900m and sits as the shareholder of Bristol City Council's companies. Craig has a background in the financial sector and has been a councillor since 2015. Craig is a director of the Bristol Museums Development Trust, a trustee of Hillfields Community Trust, Barton Fields Trust and a founder of the Friends of Coombe Brook and Hillfields Community Network
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 looks 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.