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Buenos Aires

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta was born on October 29th 1965 in the
City of Buenos Aires. He is married to Barbara Diez and has three
daughters: Paloma, Manuela and Serena.
He holds a Licentiate degree in Economics from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires (he graduated in 1988) and a Master
Degree in Business Administration from Harvard University.
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In 1993 he founded the “Fundación Grupo Sophia”, an NGO
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composed of young people with the intention to assume public
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responsibilities. In fact, important Argentinean politicians used to
be part of this NGO. Politicians as the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires María
Eugenia Vidal or the Minister of Social Development Carolina Stanley among many others.
In 2002 he started to participate actively in politics with Mauricio Macri, with whom in
2003 founded the political party “Compromiso para el Cambio”, political party that
was renamed as “Propuesta Republicana” (PRO) in 2005.
In 2005, when Mauricio Macri was elected as deputy, he was the General Director of the
PRO electoral campaign. Later on, in 2007 and in 2011, he held the same position and, as
a consequence, Macri was appointed Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires.
While Mauricio Macri was the Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, he worked alongside with
him as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of the City of Buenos Aires. During these years,
he stressed the need for a better management of the city as a whole, for a major
investment in new and better public policies. However, the most important value he
stressed for was the closeness with the neighbors of the city.
In June 2015, he was elected as the new Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires till 2019, after
obtaining 53% of the votes. In this new role, he still considers the closeness with the
neighbors as something of extreme importance. This is why, every week, he organizes
meetings in different neighborhoods so as to listen and know what each neighbor thinks
about the place where they live.
Horacio is an unconditional fan of his dear Racing Club. In fact, back in the 1970s, his
father used to be President of this famous football club.

Paris

On 2014, Anne Hidalgo became the first woman to be elected
Mayor of Paris. After she graduated with a Master of Advanced
Studies in social law, she became a labor inspector.
She has been a member of the socialist party since 1994, serving
as national Secretary for Culture and Media, she later was in
charge of the vocational training.
                                                                           ANNE HIDALGO
From 1997 to 2002, she worked as an adviser in three Minister’s
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cabinets, under Lionel Jospin Government. She served as Paris
First Deputy Mayor of Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, for thirteen years, in charge of gender
equality at first then of urban Planning and Architecture. She led the Parisian left coalition
to victory in 2004 and 2010.
As Mayor, she leads an active policy focusing on social inclusiveness, sustanable
development, climate change, air quality, solidarity, innovation and civic
participation, central elements for the future of Paris. She has undertaken to promote
these issues at an international level. First she organized in Paris the climate summit for
local leaders (a major side event of COP21 (December 2015), then Cities for Life in
Paris (November 2016). Within the C40, she launched Women4climate initiative in New
York (March 2017) and a plan for air quality (Air’Volution, Paris March 2017). She started
with other cities and international agencies the Global urban Air Pollution Observatory
(GUAPO).
First vice-president of the Great Paris Metropolis, she was elected in 2016 Chair of the
C40 Cities Leadership Group, which consists of 90 megacities committed to fight Climate
Change. As a Mayor of Paris, she is also the President of the Francophone Mayors
International Association (AIMF), co-chair of the cities world organization, United Cities
and Local Governments (CGLU) where she chairs the gender equality commission.
Born in Spain, she is a mother of three. She has published several essays (none of them
translated):
Une femme dans l’arène, co-written with Jean-Bernard Senon, Du Rocher, 2006.
Travail au bord de la crise de nerfs, co-written with Jean-Bernard Senon, Flammarion,
2010.
Mon combat pour Paris: quand la ville ose, Flammarion, 2013.

São Paulo

Bruno Covas, 38 years old, is a lawyer graduated from the Law
School of Largo de São Francisco (USP) and an economist from
PUC-SP. Former governor Mário Covas’ grandson; Bruno Covas
was elected the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)’s most
voted federal congressman in the state of São Paulo in the past
elections (2014).
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He resigned to join João Doria’s administration as Vice-Mayor of
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São Paulo in 2016. He also served as the city’s Civil Office
Chief-Secretary and as Secretary of Regional Sub Prefectures. He took office as Mayor
of São Paulo on April 7, 2018, when João Doria left to run for the state government.
Prior to that, he was a state representative for two terms, being the most voted in the state
of São Paulo in 2010 and elected by the Brazilian NGO Voto Consagrado as one of the
most active representatives. He has also served as State Secretary for the Environment,
from 2011 to 2014, within the mandate of Governor Geraldo Alckmin.
He was the president of PSDB’s National Youth between 2007 and 2010, and held other
positions in the state government of São Paulo as well.
In the private sector, he held a position in Braga Marafon’s office, with tax law, and taught
Constitutional Law at the Superior School of Business, Marketing and Communication
(ESAMC). Prior to that, he was an intern in two law offices, both in civil and labour law.

Rio de Janeiro

Marcelo Bezerra Crivella, born in 1957 in Rio de Janeiro, has been
married to writer Sylvia Jane for 37 years.
Crivella holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Santa Úrsula
University and the Civil Engineering Faculty of Barra do Piraí. He
was a university professor in Barra do Piraí and a taxi driver for two
years to fund his studies.
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Crivella was a missionary in Africa for 10 years, where he lived with
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his family and obtained his Master's Degree in Engineering from
the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Back in Brazil, he dedicated himself to the construction of Fazenda Nova Canaã, in the
city of Irecê, in the arid countryside of Bahia state. The project serves 600 children,
offering full- time teaching, school transportation, two meals per day, medical and dental
clinic. The entire project was funded with royalties from the sale of his books and CDs.
Crivella began his political career in 2002, when he was elected Senator by the Liberal
Party (Partido Liberal - PL) with 3,243,289 votes. In 2010, he was re-elected by the
Republican Party of Brazil (Partido Republicano do Brasil - PRB) with 3,332,886 votes. In a
survey conducted by Transparência Brasil, Crivella was appointed as the 3rd Senator with
the highest number of relevant legislative propositions.
In the Senate, he presented approximately 400 legislative proposals, of which more than
18 were approved into laws. He is the author of the amendment to the Constitution that
enabled physicians and nurses of the Armed Forces, Military Police and Fire
Departments to serve the National Public Healthcare Service (SUS). He is also the author of
the laws that guarantee stability in employment to pregnant women and a 30% risk-bonus of
for motorcycle couriers.
As Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, he launched the first Harvest Plan for Fisheries
and Aquaculture to fund fishermen, a 4-billion-reais federal program. He implemented the
simplification and reduction of the taxes along the fishing productive chain, the inclusion
of fish in the National Basic Food Basket and the simplification of the environmental
licensing for the production of fish in lakes of hydroelectric dams, weirs and water
reservoirs. During his tenure, fish production doubled throughout the country.
Crivella was elected Mayor of Rio de Janeiro with 1,700,030 votes on October 30th, 2016.

Mexico City

He was born on August 10th, 1972 in Mixquiahuala de Juárez,
Hidalgo. He has a PhD in Procedural Law by Universidad Marista.
He has worked in the public administration for over 20 years, most
notably as Legal Advisor, Secretary of Social Development and
Secretary of Government. As of April of 2018, he is Mayor of
Mexico City.
                                                                     JOSÉ RAMÓN AMIEVA
                                                                     Mayor of Mexico City

New York

The 109th Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, came into office
in 2014 determined to ensure that New York City remains a place
for everyone.
Since assuming office in 2014, the de Blasio administration has
developed and executed transformative initiatives including
Pre-K for All; Paid Sick Leave; neighborhood policing; IDNYC; and
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Housing New York, the largest, most ambitious affordable housing
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plan in the nation.
As the Mayor’s second term begins, crime is at historic lows and police and communities
are coming together. Student test scores are up citywide and the graduation rate has
never been higher. A five-borough economy has emerged, with a record number of jobs.
Bill de Blasio was born on May 8, 1961 in Manhattan and raised in Cambridge, MA. He is a
graduate of New York University and Columbia University’s School of International and
Public Affairs. He began his career in public service in 1989 as part of David N. Dinkins’
successful and historic mayoral campaign and worked in the Dinkins Administration.
Over the next decade, Mr. de Blasio served as regional director at the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development; as a school board member for Brooklyn School District
15; and as head of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historic campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate.
In 2002, Mr. de Blasio joined the New York City Council, representing Brooklyn’s 39th
district. During his two terms, Mr. de Blasio fought to improve public education, expand
affordable housing, protect tenants’ rights, and reform social services for families and
children. Elected Public Advocate in 2009, he pursued fairness for tenants, taxpayers,
and students.
Mr. de Blasio has been happily married to Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York
City, since 1994. They are the proud parents of Chiara and Dante.
As New York City’s 109th mayor, Bill de Blasio is committed to fighting income inequality
and believes all New Yorkers deserve a chance to succeed in the greatest city on earth.
That means every child gets a quality education, every community is safe, and every New
Yorker has an affordable place to call home.

Chicago

Rahm Emanuel is the 55th Mayor of the City of Chicago and has
served since 2011. During that time he has made the tough
choices necessary to secure Chicago’s future as a global capital.
The Mayor lengthened the school day and added more than 200
hours to the school year, taking Chicago from having the least
educational time of any large school district in the country to
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being on par with its peers. He implemented full-day kindergarten
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for every Chicago child, and fought for and won new
accountability measures to ensure that every teacher and principal had the necessary
resources to succeed. The Mayor’s comprehensive public safety strategy is focused on
expanded prevention programs for at-risk youth, smarter policing strategies, and
empowering parents and communities to reduce violence in their neighborhoods. He
attracted numerous companies to Chicago and helped to build the next generation of
start-ups, while investing in the infrastructure, public transportation, open space and
cultural attractions that make Chicago a great place to live, work, and play. And he has
worked to make our government more effective, to deliver better services at a more
competitive price, and to open government to the public.
Prior to becoming Mayor, Emanuel served as the White House Chief of Staff to President
Barack Obama and served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives
representing Chicago’s 5th District. He previously served as a key member of the Clinton
administration from 1993 to 1998, rising to serve as Senior Advisor to the President for
Policy and Strategy.
Mayor Emanuel graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981 and received a Master's
Degree in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. He is
married to Amy Rule, and they have three children.

Houston

Elected in December 2015, Sylvester Turner is serving his first
four-year term as Houston’s 62nd mayor. Since taking office,
Mayor Turner eliminated a $160 million budget shortfall in record
time; led the city’s remarkable rebound from Hurricane Harvey;
championed historic pension reform; cheered on the 2017 World
Series-winning Houston Astros; hosted a successful Super Bowl
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LI; expanded municipal investments in renewable energy and led
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the winning bid to host the World Petroleum Congress in 2020.
As the head of the energy capital of the world and the most diverse city in the nation,
Mayor Turner has brought a performance-driven approach to the job, creating more
responsive, streamlined and efficient delivery of city services while shoring up Houston’s
financial future. Thanks to his leadership, the Texas Legislature and local voters approved
the pension reform package that reduces the city’s liability by billions of dollars and
provided a “fix” that had eluded the city for 17 years.
One of the mayor’s signature initiatives is Complete Communities, which aims to improve
the quality of life for residents in all neighborhoods. The mayor’s other priorities include
filling more than 90,000 potholes on city streets, implementing a six-point holistic plan for
addressing homelessness, reducing flooding and improving drainage.
Mayor Turner’s civic leadership has been nationally recognized through his service as a
member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Transportation and Communications Standing
Committee, vice chair of the National Climate Action Agenda, member of the C40 and
Global Covenant for Mayor’s for Climate and Energy and an advisory board member of
the African American Mayors Association. He is also the recipient of the Ohtli Award, the
Mexican government’s highest honor. Turner has been featured in publications and news
outlets such as 60 Minutes, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, FOX News, Wall Street Journal, Black
Enterprise Magazine, Cuba Today Magazine, Ebony, New York Times, Washington Post
and USA Today.
Prior to his election as mayor, Turner served for 27 years in the Texas House as the
representative for District 139. He worked on the House Appropriations Committee for 21
years and served as Speaker Pro Tem for three terms. He was appointed to several
Budget Conference Committees to help balance the state’s budget and served on the
Legislative Budget Board.
Mayor Turner is a life-long resident of Houston and lives in the Acres Homes community
where he grew up with eight siblings. He is a graduate of the University of Houston and
earned a law degree from Harvard University. He began his law practice at Fulbright &
Jaworski L.L.P. and later founded the Barnes & Turner Law Firm.
Mayor Turner is the proud father of First Daughter Ashley Turner, who is continuing the
family tradition of public service in the healthcare field.

Los Angeles

Eric Garcetti is the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles and a
fourth-generation Angeleno. He was born and raised in the San
Fernando Valley — the son of public servants and the grandson
and great-grandson of immigrants from Mexico and Eastern Europe.
As the chief executive of the world’s third-largest
metropolitan economy, Mayor Garcetti oversees the busiest
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container port in the western hemisphere and the fifth busiest
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airport in the world. He has led L.A. to raise its minimum wage,
lower its business tax, enact America’s strongest earthquake retrofit law, and pass the
boldest local infrastructure initiative in U.S. history, funding a once-in-a-generation
expansion of public transportation. And he successfully led the bid to bring the 2028
Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to the United States for the first time in more
than 30 years.
He has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and Africa and appointed Los Angeles' first Deputy
Mayor for International Affairs to expand L.A.'s globalties and bring more jobs, economic
opportunity, culture, education, and visitors to the city.
Mayor Garcetti’s government service began on the L.A. City Council, where he spent four
terms as Council President before being elected Mayor in 2013 and winning re-election
in 2017 by the widest margin in the history of Los
Angeles. He has served his country as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy
Reserve, and taught at the University of Southern California and Occidental College.
Mayor Garcetti received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University, and studied as a Rhodes
Scholar at Oxford University, and later at the London School of Economics. He is also a
jazz pianist and photographer.
He and his wife, First Lady Amy Elaine Wakeland, are the proud parents of a daughter,
Maya, and have been foster parents for more than a decade.

Montreal

First elected as city councillor in Saint-Marie district in 2013,
Projet Montréal members chose Valérie Plante to lead the party in
2016. Her contagious passion and energy has helped her rally
people around her progressive vision. Deeply concerned about
participatory democracy, Valérie Plante has a bold plan for
Montreal centered on increased access to public transit, better
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urban planning and public services, the economy and the
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environment. Her commitment is to bridge the gap on these
issues for all 19 city boroughs.
Before jumping into the political arena in 2013, Valérie Plante studied
anthropology, museology, multiethnic intervention, and was actively involved with
numerous community groups, such as Fondation Filles d’action.
She became Mayor of Montreal on November 5, 2017.

Hamburg

Dr Peter Tschentscher.
First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
President of the Senate.
Peter Tschentscher was born on 20 January 1966 in Bremen.
Beginning in 1987, after secondary school and civilian service, he
studied medicine with postgraduate studies in molecular biology in
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Hamburg, which he completed with a Doctor of Medicine degree in
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1995. This was followed by a Habilitation in 2008. Until 2011, he was
a senior physician at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Peter Tschentscher joined the SPD as a student. From 2008 to 2011, he was Deputy Chair
and Financial Policy Spokesman of the SPD faction in the Hamburg Parliament. In 2011,
he was named Minister of Finance in the Hamburg Senate.
On 28 March 2018, the Hamburg Parliament elected Peter Tschentscher as the First
Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. He is the Plenipotentiary of the
Federal Republic of Germany for German-French cultural cooperation with the rank of
Federal Minister.

London

Sadiq Khan was elected Mayor of London in May 2016 winning the
largest personal mandate in the history of British politics and
securing the support of 1.3 million Londoners. Before this,
Sadiq had a distinguished
Parliamentary career as the Member of Parliament for Tooting, a
constituency in south London. He served as a Minister in both the
                                                                             SADIQ KHAN
Department for Communities and Local Government and the
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Department for Transport under Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
becoming the first Muslim to attend Cabinet. He later served as the Shadow Secretary of
State for Justice and the Shadow Minister for London, leading the London Labour Party's
election campaign into the 2015 General Election in which Labour gained an additional
seven seats from 2010.
Sadiq was born and raised in London after his parents moved to the UK from Pakistan in
the 1960s. His father worked as a bus driver for 25 years, his mother sewed clothes for a
living and the family lived on a council estate in Tooting. Before entering politics and public
service, Sadiq studied law at university and went on to work as a respected human rights
lawyer for more than 10 years, helping to run a successful firm of 50 employees. Sadiq was
a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006. He continues to
live in Tooting with his wife and two daughters.

Milan

Giuseppe Sala was born in Milan in 1958.
He has held various positions of responsibility in both the private
and public sector, gaining important professional managerial
experience.
In the private sector, he took leading roles in major companies,
such as Pirelli and Telecom Italia.
                                                                         GIUSEPPE SALA
From January 2009 until June 2010, he has served in the public
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sector as City Manager of the Municipality of Milan. He was then
appointed CEO of the company managing the Universal Exposition, Expo Milano 2015. In
2013, he was appointed Commissioner of the Government for the Expo.
His love for Milan and his willingness to make it a fairer, more international and more
attractive place led him to commit himself to politics. He was elected Mayor of Milan in
June 2016.
Giuseppe Sala holds a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi
University. He is the author of the books Milano sull’acqua. Ieri, oggi, domani [Milan on
the Water. Past, Present, Future] (2014) and Milano e il Secolo delle Città [Milan and the
Century of Cities] (2017).

Rome

I was born in Rome on July 18th, 1978, and grew up in the San
Giovanni Appio Latino neighborhood, where aqueducts and ruins
of Roman walls are still visible. Later in my life, I moved to another
neighborhood, Ottavia, where I still live with my son.
I am grateful to my father and my mother for giving me the
possibility to get an education as a lawyer.
                                                                           VIRGINIA RAGGI
My expertise include civil and judicial law and out-of-court
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settlements, and particularly intellectual property including
copyright and new Technologies.
I strongly believe in the sacred value of ideas and in the right to protect their property.
I published several articles and case notes in the journal "Diritto dell'Informazione e
dell'Informatica" (Information and Information technology Law), and in 2007 I was
appointed "Honorary Fellow" at the University of Rome "Foro Italico".
I joined the 5 Star Movement in 2011 and, with two activists, I started a 5SM group in the
14th Municipality. In 2013 I was elected City Councillor and, for the whole duration of my
mandate, I was part of the Commission for Culture, Employment and Youth Policies as
well as in Commission for Social Policies and Health.
For a long time I have been considering what the word "politics" means to me: it's about
developing a better idea of society, of civilization, and, as a consequence, a better
administration. It is not a generic and vague idea of "good" for the voters, and even less
the possibility of occupying a seat of power. Politics is not a job, nor a mission: it is the
desire to bring back legality, normality and sustainable progress.

Barcelona

Durante la década de los años 90 cursó estudios en la Facultad
de Filosofía de la Universidad de Barcelona, y disfrutó de una
beca Erasmus en Milán.
Ha adquirido sus competencias profesionales y políticas a lo
largo de los últimos veinte años con estudios académicos e
informales, trabajos en organizaciones civiles y su participación
                                                                     ADA COLAU BALLANO
en movimientos sociales.
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Ha sido durante años investigadora y defensora de los derechos
humanos, especializada en derecho a la vivienda y derecho a la ciudad.
En los años 90 ejerció profesionalmente en el campo de la comunicación, la producción
audiovisual y la traducción e interpretación. A lo largo de este mismo periodo y hasta
mediados de la década del 2000, ha estado implicada en varios movimientos sociales,
de los cuales adquirió conocimientos sobre el endeudamiento global y las instituciones
financieras internacionales. En el 2006, con motivo de la misión oficial en el Estado
español del relator de las Naciones Unidas Miloon Kothari, Ada Colau ejerció de
anfitriona en la ciudad de Barcelona, coordinando el encuentro entre Kothari y varias
entidades sociales locales, dándole a conocer el estado de las políticas públicas sobre
vivienda, la burbuja inmobiliaria y la emergencia habitacional en todo el Estado español.
En el 2007 entró a formar parte del Observatorio DESC, plataforma conformada por
entidades y personas dedicadas al estudio y la defensa de los derechos económicos,
sociales y culturales. Como responsable del Área de Vivienda de este observatorio,
organizó numerosos encuentros, seminarios, cursos y jornadas, entre los que destacan
el Seminario Internacional sobre las Mujeres y el Derecho a la Vivienda: “Construyendo
hábitat desde la dignidad” (2007), el Seminario Internacional sobre el Derecho a la
Ciudad (2009) y la Jornada sobre el Derecho a la Vivienda y a la Ciudad en el Marco de
la Crisis (2010).
En febrero del 2009 impulsó la fundación de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca
(PAH), y fue su principal portavoz hasta el 2014. En el 2013, Ada Colau participó en una
serie de acontecimientos que consiguieron notoriedad pública: su intervención como
portavoz de la PAH en la Comisión de Economía del Congreso de los Diputados de
Madrid, la discusión en el Congreso de una iniciativa legislativa popular (ILP) impulsada
por la PAH con el aval de más de 1.400.000 firmas y su intervención en la Comisión de
Peticiones del Parlamento Europeo en Bruselas. A principios del 2014, decidió delegar su
puesto de portavoz de la PAH.
Posteriormente, aceptó ser una de las portavoces de Guanyem Barcelona con el objetivo
de concurrir a las elecciones municipales de mayo del 2015. El 13 de junio de 2015 fue
investida alcaldesa de Barcelona, la primera alcaldesa de la historia de Barcelona.

Madrid

Lawyer and later Magistrate-Judge.
Born in Madrid, 1944.
She earned a Law Degree in 1965 and shortly after
founded the Atocha law firm, specialised in labour law. Advocate
for workers and detainees during the Franco dictatorship, she
began her legal career in 1980 as Judge of First Instance of Santa
                                                                      MANUELA CARMENA
Cruz de la Palma. She later became the head of various courts in
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San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Bilbao and Madrid. She also held
others positions such as Judge of Penitentiary Vigilance, Senior Magistrate-Judge of
Madrid, member of the General Council of the Judiciary and Magistrate of the High
Court of Madrid. She retired in 2010, yet resumed her work shortly after as an advisor in
the acknowledgement and redressing of victims of human rights violations in the Basque
Country.
She combined her achievements in the field of justice with her contributions to the UN
Working Group against Arbitrary Detentions, first as a rapporteur, then as Chair. She also
carried out several works enhancing international legal cooperation in Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Innovative and social entrepreneur by nature, she has never left her teaching and
pedagogical activities in the rethinking and humanisation of justice.
She is the author of various books: the most recent being ‘Why things can be different’
(Original title: Por qué las cosas pueden ser diferentes).
She was sworn in as Mayoress of Madrid on June 13th 2015.
Awards and Distinctions
1986: National Human Rights Association Award (Association for Human Rights)
1992: Human Rights Watch Award for her contribution to the defense of human rights.
2008: Manuel de Irujo Award for the Humanisation of Justice, award granted by the
department of justice of the Basque Country.
2009: Silver Medal from the Madrid Bar Association.
2011: Scevola Award For ethics and professional excellence in Law.

Moscow

1958: Born in 21 June 1958, in the village of Nyaksimvol, Beryozovo
District, Tyumen Region.
1980: Graduated from the Kostroma Technology Institute. Worked
as a fitter and later a headman at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant.
1982: Appointed Head of the Administration Department of the
Leninsky District Komsomol Committee of Chelyabinsk.
1984-1990: Held party and parliamentary jobs in the Khanty-Mansi         SERGEI SOBYANIN
Autonomous Area of the Tyumen Region.                                    Mayor of Moscow
1989: Graduated from the Russian Law Correspondence Institute,
PhD (Law).
1991: Appointed Administration Head of the city of Kogalym.
1993: First Deputy Head of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area Administration.
1994: Chairman of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area’s legislature, member of the
Federation Council of Russia’s Federal Assembly (parliament), Chairman of the
Federation Council committee on constitutional law and judicial issues.
2000: First Deputy Plenitentiary Envoy of the Russian President in the Urals Federal District.
2001-2005: Governor of the Tyumen Region.
November 2005: Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office.
2008: Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff.
2010: Appointed Moscow Mayor for a five year term by the Moscow City Duma upon the
recommendation of President Dmitry Medvedev.
2013: Elected Mayor of Moscow on 8 September, 2013 for a term of five years. Assumed
the office of Moscow Mayor on 12 Spetember, 2013. Married, with two daughters.

Tokyo

Yuriko Koike has been the Governor of Tokyo since July 2016.
Prior to being elected Governor, she was active in national
politics. She was a member of the House of Councilors and the
House of Representatives for a total of 24 years from 1992, during
which she has held major posts including Minister of the
Environment, Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern
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Territories Affairs, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for
                                                                    Governor of Tokyo
National Security Affairs, Minister of Defense, and Director of the
Committee on Budget of the House of Representatives.
She has a BA in Sociology from Cairo University and was a prominent news anchor
before entering politics.

Seoul

Education
1974: Graduated from Gyunggi High School.
1979: Received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dankook
University.
1991 - 1992: Earned an International Law diploma from LSE (The
London School of Economics and Political Sciences).
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Work Experiences
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1980: Passed the 22nd bar exam.
1982: Served as a prosecuting attorney for the Daegu District. Prosecution office Court.
1993: Worked as a visiting fellow at the Law School of Harvard. University in the USA.
1995 - 2002: Served as a Secretary General for the People’s Solidarity for a Participatory
Democracy.
2002 - 2009: Served as the Executive Director of the Beautiful Store.
2001 - 2010: Served as the Executive Director of the Beautiful Foundation.
2006 - 2011: Served as the Executive Director of Hope Institute.
2011: Elected as Mayor of Seoul (By-elections).
2014: Re-elected as Mayor of Seoul.
2018: Re-elected for the 3rd term as Mayor of Seoul.
Books Authored
Korea’s Civil Movements: The Bed of Procrustes, Dangdae (2002)
Villages Are Schools – Geomdungso (2010)
‘The Condition of the Beautiful World’– Hankyoreh Newspaper (2010)
How Does Oliver Cook the World? – An e-magazine (2011)
Village Companies - Geomdungso (2011)
1,000 Jobs That Changed the World – Munhak Dongne (2011)
Dictionary of Beautiful Value – Wisdom House (2011)
Ecology Is the Answer for Villages – Geomdungso (2011)
Theses
Measures for Systematic Reformation for the Prevention of Corruption (1997)
Systematic Reformation of Korea’s Civil Society (1998)
Financial Transparency of Non-profit Organizations (2004)
Awards
2006: Received the Manhaesang Award
2006: Received the Philippines Magsaysay Award in the category of public service
2007: Received the Danjaesang Award
2009: Received an award at the 15th Buddhism Human Rights Awards

Jakarta

Anies Baswedan was inaugurated as the Governor of Jakarta for
the 2017-2022 on October 16th, 2017.
Before assuming office, Mr. Baswedan served as the Minister of
Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia in the Joko
Widodo administration from 2014 to 2016, and as rector of
Paramadina University from 2007 to 2015.
                                                                       ANIES BASWEDAN
Mr. Baswedan is the recipient of the 2010 Nakasone Yasuhiro
                                                                      Governor of Jakarta
Award from the Institute for International Policy Studies in Japan.
He has also been named as one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy
Magazine in 2008, as one of the World’s 20 Future Figures by Foresight Magazine, Japan,
in 2010, and as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic
Studies Centre in 2010.
Mr. Baswedan received a Ph.D in Political Science from Northern Illinois University, an MA
in Public Management from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and
a BA in Economics from Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia.

Beijing

Mr. Chen Jining is the Mayor of Beijing. Other titles he holds
include: Member of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC), Deputy to the Twelfth National
People’s Congress, Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal
Committee of CPC, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of
Beijing Municipal Government, Executive President of Beijing
                                                                        CHEN JINING
Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic
                                                                       Mayor of Beijing
Winter Games (Beijing 2022), Deputy Secretary of the Party
Leadership Group of Beijing 2022.
Mr. Chen Jining was born in Lishu County, Jilin Province in February 1964. He graduated
from Imperial College London with a Ph.D degree of Engineering in Environmental
System Analysis, and later became a professor in Tsinghua University. He started his
career in April 1998 and joined the CPC in June 1984.
The previous leadership positions Mr. Chen held include: Vice Dean and then Dean of the
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering of Tsinghua University, Vice
President, Executive Vice President (director-general level) and then President (vice
minister level) of Tsinghua University, Minister and Secretary of the Party Leadership
Group of Ministry of Environmental Protection, Vice Mayor and Acting Mayor of Beijing.

Tshwane

Tshepiso Solly Msimanga was elected unopposed as the
Executive Mayor of Tshwane on Friday, 19 August 2016 at the
inaugural sitting of the City of Tshwane Council.
Solly holds a National Diploma in Marketing Management as well
as a BCompt from the University of Pretoria. He is also a graduate
of the Democratic Alliance Young Leaders Academy. He was a PR
                                                                         SOLLY MSIMANGA
councillor and the Caucus Chairperson in the City of Tshwane
                                                                         Mayor of Tshwane
Metropolitan Municipality between 2011 and 2014. He is also the
Democratic Alliance’s Chairperson in Gauteng. Between 2011 and 2015, whilst being a
part-time public representative, he held the position of Executive Director for Ask Africa.
Prior to this position he was Assistant to the Charge d’ affairs from the Liberian Embassy.
He also held a number of senior management positions in the private sector before
joining and while in politics.
Solly first joined the Democratic Alliance (DA) in 2006. In 2011 he was elected to the City
of Tshwane Council and became the leader of the DA’s Gauteng North Region the same
year. In 2014, Solly was elected as a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, and
then became the DA Provincial Chairperson in 2015.
He was the DA Gauteng Spokesperson for Sports in the Provincial Legislature and also
served on the education and economic development portfolio
committees from 2014 until the municipal elections held in August 2016.
Solly is married, with two sons. He enjoys traveling, reading, music and cooking, and does
a lot of charity work. He also heads “Make Somebody’s Christmas a Merry One”, a
project he uses to donate groceries to poor families.

Johannesburg

In January 2016, Mayor Mashaba decided to run for the role of
Mayor of the City of Johannesburg where he has lived and
worked for two decades. Known for being a successful
businessman, rather than a politician, his decision to join politics
was motivated by his desire to use political office to give South
Africans access to opportunities which would allow them to make
                                                                       HERMAN MASHABA
a success of themselves. Mayor Herman Mashaba grew up in
                                                                     Mayor of Johannesburg
poverty in GaRamotse, Hammanskraal. He lost his father at a
young age and his mother was a domestic worker who worked away from home in
Johannesburg for months on end, just to put food on their table. Not having a home of
their own, his family was forced to live in the homes of migrant workers while they were
away working in Joburg. While this was not the most stable environment, it gave Herman
a sense of personal independence from a young age. Despite the mechanisations of the
Apartheid government denying him access to his preferred field of study and career,
Mayor Mashaba has since emerged as one of South Africa’s top business minds,
founding and running the successful hair-care product brand, ‘Black Like Me’. Due to his
leadership and success in the business sector, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
in Business Administration from the Central University of Technology in 2013. He has
served as director of companies in the construction, real estate, retail and energy fields
prior to entering politics as the mayoral candidate for the Democratic Alliance. Following
the local government elections of 2016, he was elected Mayor of Joburg on 22 August
2016 with the support of the DA’s coalition partners and the EFF. Mayor Mashaba’s
multi-party coalition government is commitment to getting the basics of service delivery
right and delivering positive change to the lives of residents throughout Johannesburg.
Guiding this commitment for better lives for residents are 5 strategic pillars: Growing the
economy and creating jobs – we want to reach 5% economic growth within the City by
2021; Enhancing residents’ quality of life by improving services and taking care of the
environment; Advancing pro-poor development that provides meaningful redress;
building caring, safe and secure communities; and Instituting an honest, responsive and
productive government.

Durban

Being the first female Mayor to lead one of the key Metros in
South Africa of eThekwini Municipality, the City of Durban, Mayor
Zandile Gumede carries the aspirations of 3.7 million residents on
her capable shoulders. Her vision is to see Durban becoming the
most caring and liveable City in Africa.
Mayor Gumede leads a coastal city which is an economic hub
                                                                         GUMEDE ZANDILE
and epicentre of development in the province of KwaZulu-Natal
                                                                          Mayor of Durban
and home to the busiest port in Africa. She has defined her term
around redress of issues of the past through her ambitious programme of radical
economic transformation agenda.
While she remains highly cognisant of the development agenda of the country’s young
democracy, Gumede,56, is committed to working with the business sector to grow the
City’s economy and create jobs.
The City’s One Stop Shop, a globally competitive investment destination for investors and
developers will ensure that eThekwini becomes an international investor and developer
friendly City.
Soon after assuming office, Gumede announced that the Municipality will establish a
team of experts, affectionately known as Team Durban that will assist the City’s catalytic
projects office to quickly achieve its objectives and attract investment. Durban’s catalytic
projects, which are part of infrastructure development and economic growth, will create
in excess of 1 million construction jobs and over 600 000 permanent jobs over the next
20 years.
As an internationalist and environmental issues activist, Gumede was recently elected as
one of the Vice-Chairpersons for the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) Steering
Committee, which is the governing body that provides strategic direction for the C40
network of mega-cities and is committed to action on climate change. Gumede said it is
a great privilege to be elected to represent African cities within the C40 network. The
challenge of climate change, she said, is truly global and every city, country and
continent must play its part in tackling it.
She is a Co-Chair for UCLG Strategic Planning Committee. This committee through
eThekwini Municipality has produce ground breaking policy papers and frameworks to
support cities on strategic planning. The latest was the policy framework on public spaces.
Chair of Africa Forum for Urban Safety (AFUS). Through AFUS, Mayor has been able to
influence global commitments such as New Urban Agenda to confirm complementary
role of cities in the coproduction of urban safety. As the Chair of AFUS, Cllr Gumede has
hosted strategic sessions to mobilize support for the maintreaming of urban safety in
local government development agenda. The latest is her participation in the 26th Session
of UN Habitat.
Governing Council and initiation of the adopted GC Resolution on Safer Cities through
South African Government.