Annex A – CVs of Prize Council and Nominating Committee

Prize Council

Mr S DHANABALAN (Chairperson) Chairman Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd

S Dhanabalan started his career in the Singapore Civil Service in 1960 and later served in the Economic Development Board, the government investment promotion agency from 1961-1968. He was part of a pioneer group that established the Development Bank of Singapore where he served from 1968–1978. He entered politics in 1976 and while a Member of Parliament, he held a number of cabinet positions – Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980-88), Minister for Culture (1981-84), Minister for Community Development (1984-86), Minister for National Development (1987-92) and Minister for Trade and Industry (1992-93).

Mr Dhanabalan was Chairman of Singapore Airlines (1996-98), Chairman, DBS Group Holdings Ltd (1999-2005) and Director, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Private Ltd (1981- 2005).

He is currently Chairman, Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd; Member, Council of Presidential Advisers and Member, Presidential Council for Minority Rights.

Dr Pierre LACONTE President International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP)

Pierre Laconte is a Belgian urbanist, born in Brussels, Belgium. He specialises in urban transport and architectural planning and environmental issues.

He has a Doctorate in Laws and a Doctorate in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and Dr honoris causa, Napier University, Edinburgh. Laconte was one of the three planners in charge of the Groupe Urbanisme Architecture. The Group was responsible for the master plan and the architectural co-ordination of Louvain-la-Neuve, a pedestrian new university town developed by the University from 1968, on agricultural land around a new railway station, 25 km South of Brussels. The project was awarded the UIA Abercrombie Award in 1982.

Laconte also serves as Vice President of the Scientific Committee, European Environment Agency (EEA, Copenhagen), an EU Agency for environmental research and information since 2003. He is the Vice President of International Council on Ecopolis Development (Beijing) since 2007.

He is Honorary Secretary General of the International Union of Public Transport (UITP), a think-tank on urban mobility and inter-modality and Member of the German Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

He was a Delegate of Belgium at the UN Habitat I and II Conference and the Kyoto Climate Conference.

Laconte received the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour Award in 1999. His published works includes Human and Energy Factors in Planning: A Systems Approach; Water Resources and Land Use Planning: A Systems Approach; Train, Station and City; Airport, Train and City; and Brussels: Perspectives for a European Capital, which won the 2008 Society of Human Ecology Award for Best Publication 2008.

Professor Fumihiko MAKI Principle Maki and Associates

Fumihiko Maki was the 1993 Pritzker Prize Laureate. Maki, who was born in Tokyo in 1928, studied at the University of Tokyo where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1952.

In 1956, he was the assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also received his first design commission—for the Steinberg Hall (an art center) on that campus. Following his four years there, he joined the Faculty at Harvard’s GSD from 1962 to 1965, and has been a frequent guest lecturer at numerous other schools.

In 1965, he returned to Japan to establish his own firm, Maki and Associates in Tokyo. In the 28 years since, his staff has grown to approximately 35 people, with an equal number having passed through to begin their own practices. Some of Maki’s best known works are the Hillside Terrace Apartments in Tokyo; the Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium in Kanagawa; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto; the Spiral and Tepia buildings in Tokyo; the Nippon Convention Center in Makuhari Messe, Chiba; Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium in Nakatsu; the Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco; and the Isar Büro Park in Munich, new campus of the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore; new UN consolidation project and Tower 4 at the WTC site in New York.

Maki is also a Winner of 4 th UIA Gold Medal, 3 rd Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design, the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and the Wolf Foundation Prize, Praemium Imperiale and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the German Institute of Architects and the French Academy of Architecture.

Mr J.Y. PILLAY Chairman Singapore Exchange Limited

Mr Pillay has served as Chairman of the Singapore Exchange Limited since 1999. Mr Pillay also serves as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers and is a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights of the Republic of Singapore. He is also a Life Trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association and a Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy.

Mr Pillay was in the Administrative service of the Government of Singapore from 1961- 1995, during which he held various portfolios, including Permanent Secretary for Ministry of National Development. He also served in the Ministries of Finance, Defence, Monetary Authority of Singapore and Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Mr Pillay served as Chairman on the Boards of Singapore Airlines Limited (1972–1996), Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (1974–1986), Development Bank of Singapore Ltd (1979–1984), and Singapore Technologies Holdings Private Limited (1991–1994). He was also the Chairman of the Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance from 2002 till its dissolution in 2007.

Mr Pillay graduated with a BSc (Honours) degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1956.

Dr John SO Former Lord Mayor Melbourne,

Lord Mayor John So is one of Melbourne’s longest serving councillors, and twice elected Lord Mayor. Campaigning for social equity has been a constant theme in John So’s public career, subsequently leading to community representation on a broad range of business, social, planning and environment issues.

During Lord Mayor So’s tenure Melbourne has enjoyed a major transformation marked by rejuvenation of inner urban landscapes, strong tourism and retail sectors, cultural diversity and leadership in urban sustainability. Lord Mayor So has been accredited with the successful staging of the and his assiduous efforts to promote the city abroad, leading him to be personally identified with the ‘That’s Me!bourne’ initiative to promote the city. His focus on international business, culture and trade has resulted in the development of strong partnerships with world economic centres. In 2006, Lord Mayor So’s promotion of Melbourne nationally and internationally led to him being named World Mayor by the international World Mayor Project.

Most recently, Lord Mayor So has been a key figure in Australasian capital city and local government responses to climate change. An invited participant in global summits, he has represented Melbourne in South Africa, New York and Kyoto. As a mayor of Asian heritage in the strongly diverse city, Lord Mayor So champions links with other Asian cities, emphasising sister city relations with Osaka, Japan and Tianjin, and working within the Business Partner City Network of 12 global cities. Melbourne is Australia’s second largest city and describes itself as the nation’s cultural capital, though its prominence as a financial centre is undisputable.

Mr Achim STEINER UNEP Executive Director United Nations Under-Secretary General

Mr Archim Steiner was elected the Executive Director of UNEP on 16 March 2006. Before joining UNEP, Achim served as Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) from 2001 to 2006. IUCN is widely regarded as one of the most influential and highly respected organisations in the field of conservation, environment and natural resources management. He held responsibility for the management and oversight of 1,000 staff located in 42 countries.

His professional career has included assignments with governmental, non- governmental and international organizations in different parts of the world. In Washington, where he was Senior Policy Advisor of IUCN's Global Policy Unit, he led the development of new partnerships between the environment community, the World Bank and the United Nations system. In Southeast Asia he worked as Chief Technical Advisor on a programme for the sustainable management of Mekong River watersheds and community-based natural resources management. In 1998 he was appointed Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams, based in South Africa, where he managed a global programme of work to bring together the public sector, civil society and the private sector in a global policy process on dams and development.

Achim obtained a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of London with specialization in development economics, regional planning, and international development and environment policy. He also studied at the German Development Institute in Berlin as well as the Harvard Business School. He serves on a number of international advisory boards, including the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).

Nominating Committee

Professor Kishore MAHBUBANI (Chairperson) Dean , School of Public Policy National University of Singapore

Prof Kishore Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Masters degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He has been conferred The Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998. The Foreign Policy Association Medal was awarded to him in New York in June 2004.

Prof Mahbubani was with the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004 with postings in Cambodia, , Washington DC and New York. He was Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and was the President of the UN Security Council from 2001 - 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998.

He is the current Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) of the National University of Singapore. He is also a Faculty Associate for the LKYSPP’s Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG).

In the world of ideas, Prof Mahbubani has spoken and published globally. His articles have appeared in a wide range of journals and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Survival, American Interest, the National Interest, Time, Newsweek and New York Times. He has also been profiled in the Economist and in Time Magazine. He is the author of “Can Asians Think? ” (published in Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico, India, China and Malaysia) and of “Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World ” (published in New York). His new book entitled “ The New Asian Hemisphere: the irresistible shift of global power to the East ” was published in New York in February 2008.

Professor Alan ALTSHULER Professor Policy and Planning Harvard University

Alan A. Altshuler is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning. Altshuler's prior appointments include Dean of the Graduate School of Design, director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, academic dean of the Kennedy School, dean of NYU's Graduate School of Public Administration, and Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Altshuler also served as Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975. Altshuler received his BA from Cornell University and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Altshuler has written and co-authored several books including The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis; Community Control: The Black Demand for Participation in Large American Cities; The Urban Transportation System; Innovations in American Government: Challenges, Opportunities, and Dilemmas; The Future of the Automobile; Regulation for Revenue; The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions (with GSD Professor José A. Gómez-Ibáñez); Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America and Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (with David Luberoff).

From 1969 to 1970, Altshuler chaired the Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent’s Task Force on Transportation and served as founding director of the Boston Transportation Planning Review (BTPR) from 1970 to 1972, developing a new regional transportation plan for Greater Boston. The BTPR pioneered the involvement of local elected officials and citizen groups in the transportation planning process, and its substantive recommendations guided most state transportation investment in Greater Boston for the next 25 years.

Mrs CHEONG Koon Hean Chief Executive Officer Urban Redevelopment Authority

Mrs Cheong Koon Hean is the Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) since 2004 and concurrently Deputy Secretary (Special Duties) in the Ministry of National Development. A Colombo Plan Scholar, Mrs Cheong graduated as a University Gold Medallist with first class honours in architecture from the University of Newcastle, and received a post graduate degree in urban development planning from University College, London. She has also completed the Harvard Advanced Management Programme.

Trained as an architect-planner Mrs Cheong has had extensive experience in strategic planning, urban design and conservation. As CEO(URA), she oversees the planning of Singapore, the conservation of built heritage and the real estate market. She is a key driver of major urban transformation projects, such as Marina Bay, and various initiatives in the Master Plan 2008 and the Architecture and Urban Design Excellence Programme. She also chairs the jury panel of the President’s Design Award as well as several design panels to evaluate and guide the design of significant development projects. On the policy front, her current and previous portfolios in the Ministry of National Development covers land use and planning policies, the property market, the government land sales programme and public housing.

Mrs Cheong was also previously seconded to the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1997 to 1999 as the Director (International Business), facilitating Singapore’s regionalisation programme and economic interests in ASEAN and ASEM.

Mrs Cheong is currently a board member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the Jurong Town Corporation, Jurong Port Pte Ltd as well as the National Heritage Board. She is also a Board Trustee of the international Urban Land Institute and a fellow member of the Singapore Institute of Architects. Mrs Cheong was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2005 and Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1997.

Sir Peter HALL Professor Planning and Regeneration Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning University College London

Sir Peter Hall started his academic career in 1957 as lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association. In 2001 he won the prestigious Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. Hall received the Royal Town Planning Institute Gold Medal in 2003 along with the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for distinction in research. In 2005, he won the Balzan Prize for the “Social and Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of the 16th Century” . He won the award for his unique contribution to the history of ideas about urban planning, his acute analysis of the physical, social and economic problems of modern cities and his powerful historical investigations into the cultural creativity of city life." In 2008 Hall was awarded the Regional Studies Association Prize for Overall Contribution to the Field of Regional Studies.

Hall was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the Secretary of State for the Environment, with special reference to issues of London and South East regional planning including Thames Gateway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link from 1991 – 1994. He was also a member of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force from 1998-1999. In 2005, he was appointed Chair of ReBlackpool, the Blackpool Urban Regeneration Company. Hall was the Chairman of the Town and Country Planning Association (1995-9) and is now its President and a member of its Board of Trustees and Policy Board.

He also directed a major international study, POLYNET: Sustainable Management of European Polycentric Mega-City Regions, financed by a 2.4 million Euro grant from the European Commission, the results of which are published in The Polycentric Metropolis.

Mr LIU Thai Ker Director RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd

Mr Liu Thai Ker is an architect-planner. He obtained his Bachelor of Architecture with First Class Honours & University Medal from the University of New South Wales in 1962 and a Masters in City Planning with Parsonís Memorial Medal from Yale University in 1965. Since 1992, he has been Director of RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd, a consulting firm which has projects in Singapore and overseas. He has been appointed as the planning advisor to Shandong Province and other major cities in China. He is also the Adjunct Professor of the School of Design and Environment and The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

As an architect-planner and Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Housing & Development Board from 1969-1989, Mr Liu oversaw the completion of over half a million dwelling units. In 1989, he became the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Planner of Urban Redevelopment Authority for which he spearheaded the major revision of the Singapore Concept Plan 1991. In the cultural arena, he served as the Chairman of the National Arts Council from 1996 to June 2005 and Singapore Tyler Print Institute since 2000. He is also a recipient of several awards including the Gold Medal of the Singapore Institute of Architects in 2001 and the Medal of the City of Paris, France in 2001.

Dr Alfonso VEGARA President Fundación Metrópoli

Alfonso Vegara, an architect-planner, is the President of the Madrid-based Taller de Ideas Group. He was born in Alicante, Spain in 1955. Founded in 1987, Taller de Ideas has developed the Regional Planning Strategies for eight of the 17 Autonomous Regions in Spain, including the award winning regional plan for the Basque Country. Vegara is also President of Fundación Metrópoli, a Spanish foundation dedicated to studying, developing and sharing urban innovations. He also developed and directed the on-going Proyecto CITIES initiative, a study into the urban components of excellence of twenty participating cities from around the world. Using the methodology developed for Proyecto CITIES, the Fundación Metrópoli has undertaken a number of urban research and planning projects including the Fengxian Eco-Linear City, the Madrid Bulevar M30, and the EcoCity of Castilla-La Mancha.

Vegara has been Professor of Urban Planning in a number of universities in Spain, and has lectured at universities and conferences worldwide. He was also appointed Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania for the period 1997 to 2002. Vegara has maintained close ties with Eisenhower Fellowships (EF) since 1987, when he was selected to be the Eisenhower Fellow from Spain. Between 1995 and 2001, he served two terms on its International Advisory Council (IAC), and organised the 1997 EF Congress in Alicante, Spain. Vegara is currently a special “Roving Member” of the IAC. From 2002-2005 he was President of the International Society of City and Regional Planners. In 2007 was awarded the Premio Rey Jaime I in the category of Urbanism, Landscape and Sustainability.