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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. HORACIO In 1993 he founded the “Fundación Grupo Sophia”, an NGO RODRÍGUEZ LARRETA composed of young people with the intention to assume public responsibilities. In fact, important Argentinean politicians used to Mayor of Buenos Aires 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 cabinets, under Lionel Jospin Government. She served as Paris Mayor of 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). BRUNO COVAS He resigned to join João Doria’s administration as Vice-Mayor of São Paulo in 2016. He also served as the city’s Civil Office Mayor of São Paulo 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. MARCELO CRIVELLA Crivella was a missionary in Africa for 10 years, where he lived with his family and obtained his Master's Degree in Engineering from Mayor of Rio de Janeiro the University of in . 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 BILL DE BLASIO Housing New York, the largest, most ambitious affordable housing plan in the nation. Mayor of New York As the Mayor’s second term begins, crime is at historic lows and police and communities are coming . 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 RAHM EMANUEL being on par with its peers. He implemented full-day kindergarten for every Chicago child, and fought for and won new Mayor of Chicago 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 SYLVESTER TURNER LI; expanded municipal investments in renewable energy and led the winning bid to host the World Petroleum Congress in 2020. Mayor of Houston 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 ERIC GARCETTI container port in the western hemisphere and the fifth busiest airport in the world. He has led L.A. to raise its minimum wage, Mayor of Los Angeles 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 VALÉRIE PLANTE urban planning and public services, the economy and the environment. Her commitment is to bridge the gap on these Mayor of Montreal 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 PETER TSCHENTSCHER Hamburg, which he completed with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1995. This was followed by a Habilitation in 2008. Until 2011, he was Mayor of Hamburg 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 Department for Transport under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Mayor of London 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.

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. From January 2009 until June 2010, he has served in the public 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. My expertise include civil and judicial law and out-of-court 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. Ha sido durante años investigadora y defensora de los derechos Mayor of Barcelona 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 San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Bilbao and Madrid. She also held Mayor of Madrid 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 YURIKO KOIKE Territories Affairs, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs, Minister of Defense, and Director of the Governor of Tokyo 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). PARK WON-SOON Work Experiences 1980: Passed the 22nd bar exam. Mayor of Seoul 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 Award from the Institute for International Policy Studies in Japan. Governor of Jakarta 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 Winter Games (Beijing 2022), Deputy Secretary of the Party Mayor of Beijing 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 . 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 Metropolitan Municipality between 2011 and 2014. He is also the Mayor of Tshwane 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.

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 poverty in GaRamotse, Hammanskraal. He lost his father at a Mayor of Johannesburg 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 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.

Being the first female Mayor to lead one of the key Metros in South Africa of eThekwini Municipality, the City of Durban, Mayor 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 and home to the busiest port in Africa. She has defined her term Mayor of Durban 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.