URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCE – Friday 02 November 2007
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society
Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political
Science
J. Phatak, Municipal Commissioner, Brihan Mumbai Municipal
Corporation
Co-Chairs: Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Howard Davies, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science and Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism, Olympic Delivery Authority
Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York
Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Abhay Pethe, Vibhooti Shukla Chair in Urban Economics, University of Mumbai
S. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Lindsay Bremner, Chair, Architecture Department, Temple University
Dieter Läpple, Professor of Regional and Urban Economics, HafenCity University, Hamburg
Co-Chairs: PS Pasricha, Director General, Maharashtra State Police and Deyan Sudjic, Director, Design Museum, London
Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Olympics and London, UK Government
Andy Altman, Planning Director, Washington, D.C. 1999-2005
Cyrus Guzder, Chairman and Managing Director, AFL Group
Sanjay Ubale, Secretary, Special Projects, State of Maharashtra
Charles Correa, Architect, Charles Correa Associates
Minar Pimple, Deputy Director (Asia), UN Millennium Campaign
Ashok Bal, Deputy Chairman, Mumbai Port Trust
Suketu Mehta, Author
Narinder Nayar, Director, Governing Board of Bombay First
Sheela Patel, Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres
Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-Chairs: Milind Deora, Member of Parliament for Mumbai South and Darren Walker, Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation
S.S. Kshatriya, Principal Secretary, Housing Department, State of Maharashtra
Mukesh Mehta, Chairman, MM Project Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Jockin Arputham, Director, National Slum Dwellers Federation
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1998-2001
José Castillo, Architect and Professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Matias Echanove, Researcher, University of Tokyo
Co-Chairs: Milind Deora, Member of Parliament for Mumbai South and
Darren Walker, Vice President, The Rockefeller Foundation
Shirish Patel, Planner, SPA Consultants
PK Das, Architect, PK Das and Associates
Suresh Sharma, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Rahul Srivastava, Research Advisor, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research
URBAN AGE INDIA CONFERENCE – Saturday 03 November 2007
Co-Chairs: Ramesh Ramanathan, Co-Founder, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy and Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, and Director, India Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Magazine
Debi Goenka, Executive Trustee, Conservation Action Trust
Geetam Tiwari, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Co-Chairs: Ratnakar Gaikwad, Metropolitan Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority and Andy Altman, Planning Director, Washington, D.C. 1999-2005
Andy Altman, Planning Director, Washington, D.C. 1999-2005
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
Philipp Rode, Executive Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science
Jo Beall, Professor of Development Studies, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Helena Maria Gasparian, Special Advisor of International Relations to the Governor, State of São Paulo
Heng Chye Kiang, Dean, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore
KC Sivaramakrishnan, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi; Enrique Norten, Architect, TEN Arquitectos
Rahul Mehrotra, Architect and Professor, MIT
Barun Kumar Ray, Secretary, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Mauricio Camps, Special Advisor of International Relations to Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City
Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Co-Chairs: Darryl D’Monte, Chair, Forum of Environmental Journalists and Ricky Burdett, Director, Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kumari Selja, Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India
Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
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Johny Joseph, Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
Bikash Bhattacharya, Mayor of Kolkata
Jayant Patil, Minister of Finance, State of Maharashtra
Enrique Peñalosa, Mayor of Bogotá 1998-2001
José Serra, Governor of the State of São Paulo
Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1999-2007
Bruce Ramer, Lawyer, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc.
PK Das, Architect, PK Das and Associates
Suketu Mehta, Author
Johny Joseph, Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra
Darryl D’Monte, Chair, Forum of Environmental Journalists
Tony Travers, Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
José Serra, Governor of the State of São Paulo and Host, Urban Age South America Conference 2008
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alfred Herrhausen Society
09.20 THE GLOBAL URBAN CONTEXT
11.00 ENVISIONING THE FUTURE FOR GLOBAL CITIES
14.40 HOUSING THE URBAN POOR – PART ONE
16.00 HOUSING THE URBAN POOR – PART TWO
09.30 CLIMATE CHANGE AND CITIES
