Northwestern Events Calendar

May
27
2015

Chicago Forum on Global Cities

SHOW DETAILS

When: Wednesday, May 27, 2015
All day  

Where: Chicago,

Contact: Janka Pieper   (847) 467-6953

Group: International Program Development

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Northwestern community invited to attend Chicago Forum on Global Cities programs for free

Northwestern University is proud to be a Knowledge Partner of the Chicago Forum on Global Cities. The Chicago Forum on Global Cities, hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Financial Times, will convene in Chicago from May 27 to 29, 2015. It will bring together global city leaders of the four pillars vital to urban life—business, education, arts and culture, civics—for a multidisciplinary discussion on how they can collaborate to make their cities more economically vital, socially inclusive, and environmentally livable. The future of global cities will be defined by the mayors and maestros, the scholars and CEOs, who will attend and participate in this unique global forum in a unique global city.

Northwestern faculty, staff and students are invited to attend any of the listed programs and sessions below for free.

Please register here by Friday, May 22nd. (Northwestern Registration link: https://weinberg.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0TyPfyWdPlQIcDP)

Northwestern staff, faculty, and students who have questions about the Forum or registering for it can contact Janka Pieper in International Program Development at j-pieper@northwestern.edu or 847-467-5344.

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Opening Program: Global Cities Driving the Global Economy

Wednesday 05/27 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St.

Global cities are driving today’s global economy. Some, such as New York and London are global financial centers. Los Angeles stands at the peak of the global entertainment industry. Hong Kong and Singapore loom over global trading. São Paulo, Seoul, and Chicago have taken their historical expertise in industry and turned into global centers of industrial knowledge. In what ways are the world’s most powerful and global cities, rather than national governments, serving as the economic engines of the twenty-first century? Is the concentration of economic activity in global cities disrupting international norms? How are global cities positioned to serve as hubs of global trade and commerce, and what role do they play in international trade negotiations.

Speakers: Ajay Banga, President and CEO, MasterCard; Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Founder and Chairman, Paulson Institute; former Secretary, US Treasury; Robert E. Rubin, Cochairman, Council on Foreign Relations; former Secretary, US Treasury; Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times


Reimagining Urban Infrastructure

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

The world’s population is increasingly urban. Today, over 50 percent of the world lives in urban areas—a percentage that is projected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. Increased urbanization has placed new and unprecedented stresses on aging infrastructure, antiquated urban plans, housing needs, and transportation demands. What innovative initiatives have been developed to address these challenges? How are global city leaders, the private sector, and civic communities collaborating to invest in developments and urban renewal that benefit and enhance the standard of living of all communities?

Speakers: Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, CityView; Former Mayor, San Antonio; Former Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Theaster Gates, Professor and the Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation. Moderated by Simon Kuper.


Inclusive Cities: Poverty, Youth, and Immigration

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago

Global cities attract diverse populations from around the world, including high-skilled workers, families, artists, students, and other jobseekers. What policies have cities adopted to encourage a culture of inclusion so that their populations are free from discrimination based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disabilities, or special needs? How are global cities managing the challenges and opportunities presented by such a socially and economically diverse population? What is the economic benefit to the city to invest in inclusive policies?

Speakers: Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Secretary for the Economic Development of the Federal District, City of Mexico City; Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education; Boubker Mazoz, President and Founder, Sister Cities Africa; Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director and Adjunct Professor, Global Diversity Exchange, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; Kasim Reed, Mayor, Atlanta, Georgia. Moderated by Tony Barber.


Emerging Economy Cities and Boom Towns

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Murphy Auditorium, 50 East Erie Street, Chicago

Many cities in developing countries are fast becoming global cities. They are dynamic, reinventing themselves, growing, and transforming. Which cities in developing nations around the world are likely to emerge as new global cities? What factors are driving their growth? What impact will these new global centers have on the economies of their countries and regions?

Speakers: Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation; Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, The Abraaj Group; Yuan Ming, Professor of International Relations, Peking University. Moderated by Jamil Anderlini

 

University of Chicago Urban Labs

Thursday 05/28 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago

The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs has developed a unique model to improve urban life. Through deep partnerships with the public sector and nonprofits, they provide timely research. Through an integrated approach across multiple domains, they allow for comprehensive interventions. And with advanced analytics, they can quickly determine the most effective interventions

Speakers: Evelyn J. Diaz, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Family & Supportive Services; Timothy Knowles, Pritzker Director, University of Chicago Urban Labs; Jens Ludwig, Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Codirector, Education Lab; McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy; David O. Meltzer, Director, University of Chicago Health Lab; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Director, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Chair, Committee on Clinical and Translational Science, University of Chicago. Moderated by John Paul Rathbone.

 

Safer Cities: Security and Vulnerability

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago


As centers of political and economic power, global cities are particularly vulnerable to security threats and instability. While pandemics, acts of terrorism, civil unrest, and natural disasters can occur in any urban environment, they often hit global cities first and hardest. How are global cities prepared to address twenty-first century security risks? How are they building their capacity in airports, surveillance technology, data sets, and communications? Will the new technologies designed to help cities confront these challenges help or hinder their efforts? How can cities collaborate globally to effectively prevent and respond to these concerns?

Speakers: Edward F. Davis, President and CEO, Edward Davis, LLC; Mark Filip, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis; Khoo Boon Hui, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore; former President, INTERPOL; Keith Williams, President and CEO, UL LLC; Wong Chun-Kau, Jolly, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Smart City, Shanghai University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Moderated by Gillian Tett.


Providing Health Care

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago

The diversity of a global city requires a comprehensive – and forward thinking – public health plan. Providing access to care, preparing for health concerns such as pandemics or epidemics, and building a competitive health care industry are all critical responsibilities of a global city. What solutions can be implemented to ensure residents are provided with superior health care and benefitting from the riches of living in a global city? To what degree are urban violence and crime a public health concern?

Speakers: Harry L. Leider, Chief Medical Officer and Group Vice President, Walgreens Company; Stephen Lewis, Co-Founder and Co-Director, AIDS-Free World; Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Associate Dean of Global Health, and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago; Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director, Cure Violence. Moderated by Megan Murphy.

 

Scarcity of Resources: A Growing Demand for Food, Water, and Energy

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Murphy Auditorium, 50 E Erie St, Chicago

Cities are growing in population, and decreasing in available resources. Many of the world’s global cities were designed centuries ago and are adapting their antiquated infrastructure to meet twenty-first century demands. How can global cities harness their concentration of wealth, human resources, private investment, and research capacities to devise solutions for the world’s greatest challenges, particularly the growing demand for food, water, and energy?

Speakers: Eilon M. Adar, Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid Zones, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Philip Enquist, Global City Design Practice Lead, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; David Miller, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund–Canada; Former Mayor, Toronto; Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. Moderated by Ed Crooks.

 

Closing Program: The Foreign Policy of Cities

Friday 05/29 11:30 am - 2:00 pm - Navy Pier, Grand Ballroom, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago

Global cities engage globally through partnerships, exchanges, and agreements led by businesses, cultural and educational institutions, and civic leadership. But how can global cities coordinate the multitude of siloed efforts to develop a cohesive foreign policy on behalf of the city as a whole? How do global cities cooperate with—or disrupt—national interests by having their own global agendas?

To further examine the foreign policy of cities, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is conducting a study on Chicago’s foreign policy with generous support provided by The Chicago Community Trust. The task force report will be released this fall.

Speakers: Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; former Secretary, US Department of State; Benjamin Barber, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor, The Hague; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Former Foreign Minister and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom. Moderated by Philip Stephens.

Register
May
28
2015

Chicago Forum on Global Cities

SHOW DETAILS

When: Thursday, May 28, 2015
All day  

Where: Chicago,

Contact: Janka Pieper   (847) 467-6953

Group: International Program Development

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Northwestern community invited to attend Chicago Forum on Global Cities programs for free

Northwestern University is proud to be a Knowledge Partner of the Chicago Forum on Global Cities. The Chicago Forum on Global Cities, hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Financial Times, will convene in Chicago from May 27 to 29, 2015. It will bring together global city leaders of the four pillars vital to urban life—business, education, arts and culture, civics—for a multidisciplinary discussion on how they can collaborate to make their cities more economically vital, socially inclusive, and environmentally livable. The future of global cities will be defined by the mayors and maestros, the scholars and CEOs, who will attend and participate in this unique global forum in a unique global city.

Northwestern faculty, staff and students are invited to attend any of the listed programs and sessions below for free.

Please register here by Friday, May 22nd. (Northwestern Registration link: https://weinberg.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0TyPfyWdPlQIcDP)

Northwestern staff, faculty, and students who have questions about the Forum or registering for it can contact Janka Pieper in International Program Development at j-pieper@northwestern.edu or 847-467-5344.

_______

Opening Program: Global Cities Driving the Global Economy

Wednesday 05/27 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St.

Global cities are driving today’s global economy. Some, such as New York and London are global financial centers. Los Angeles stands at the peak of the global entertainment industry. Hong Kong and Singapore loom over global trading. São Paulo, Seoul, and Chicago have taken their historical expertise in industry and turned into global centers of industrial knowledge. In what ways are the world’s most powerful and global cities, rather than national governments, serving as the economic engines of the twenty-first century? Is the concentration of economic activity in global cities disrupting international norms? How are global cities positioned to serve as hubs of global trade and commerce, and what role do they play in international trade negotiations.

Speakers: Ajay Banga, President and CEO, MasterCard; Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Founder and Chairman, Paulson Institute; former Secretary, US Treasury; Robert E. Rubin, Cochairman, Council on Foreign Relations; former Secretary, US Treasury; Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times


Reimagining Urban Infrastructure

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

The world’s population is increasingly urban. Today, over 50 percent of the world lives in urban areas—a percentage that is projected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. Increased urbanization has placed new and unprecedented stresses on aging infrastructure, antiquated urban plans, housing needs, and transportation demands. What innovative initiatives have been developed to address these challenges? How are global city leaders, the private sector, and civic communities collaborating to invest in developments and urban renewal that benefit and enhance the standard of living of all communities?

Speakers: Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, CityView; Former Mayor, San Antonio; Former Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Theaster Gates, Professor and the Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation. Moderated by Simon Kuper.


Inclusive Cities: Poverty, Youth, and Immigration

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago

Global cities attract diverse populations from around the world, including high-skilled workers, families, artists, students, and other jobseekers. What policies have cities adopted to encourage a culture of inclusion so that their populations are free from discrimination based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disabilities, or special needs? How are global cities managing the challenges and opportunities presented by such a socially and economically diverse population? What is the economic benefit to the city to invest in inclusive policies?

Speakers: Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Secretary for the Economic Development of the Federal District, City of Mexico City; Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education; Boubker Mazoz, President and Founder, Sister Cities Africa; Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director and Adjunct Professor, Global Diversity Exchange, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; Kasim Reed, Mayor, Atlanta, Georgia. Moderated by Tony Barber.


Emerging Economy Cities and Boom Towns

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Murphy Auditorium, 50 East Erie Street, Chicago

Many cities in developing countries are fast becoming global cities. They are dynamic, reinventing themselves, growing, and transforming. Which cities in developing nations around the world are likely to emerge as new global cities? What factors are driving their growth? What impact will these new global centers have on the economies of their countries and regions?

Speakers: Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation; Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, The Abraaj Group; Yuan Ming, Professor of International Relations, Peking University. Moderated by Jamil Anderlini

 

University of Chicago Urban Labs

Thursday 05/28 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago

The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs has developed a unique model to improve urban life. Through deep partnerships with the public sector and nonprofits, they provide timely research. Through an integrated approach across multiple domains, they allow for comprehensive interventions. And with advanced analytics, they can quickly determine the most effective interventions

Speakers: Evelyn J. Diaz, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Family & Supportive Services; Timothy Knowles, Pritzker Director, University of Chicago Urban Labs; Jens Ludwig, Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Codirector, Education Lab; McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy; David O. Meltzer, Director, University of Chicago Health Lab; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Director, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Chair, Committee on Clinical and Translational Science, University of Chicago. Moderated by John Paul Rathbone.

 

Safer Cities: Security and Vulnerability

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago


As centers of political and economic power, global cities are particularly vulnerable to security threats and instability. While pandemics, acts of terrorism, civil unrest, and natural disasters can occur in any urban environment, they often hit global cities first and hardest. How are global cities prepared to address twenty-first century security risks? How are they building their capacity in airports, surveillance technology, data sets, and communications? Will the new technologies designed to help cities confront these challenges help or hinder their efforts? How can cities collaborate globally to effectively prevent and respond to these concerns?

Speakers: Edward F. Davis, President and CEO, Edward Davis, LLC; Mark Filip, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis; Khoo Boon Hui, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore; former President, INTERPOL; Keith Williams, President and CEO, UL LLC; Wong Chun-Kau, Jolly, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Smart City, Shanghai University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Moderated by Gillian Tett.


Providing Health Care

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago

The diversity of a global city requires a comprehensive – and forward thinking – public health plan. Providing access to care, preparing for health concerns such as pandemics or epidemics, and building a competitive health care industry are all critical responsibilities of a global city. What solutions can be implemented to ensure residents are provided with superior health care and benefitting from the riches of living in a global city? To what degree are urban violence and crime a public health concern?

Speakers: Harry L. Leider, Chief Medical Officer and Group Vice President, Walgreens Company; Stephen Lewis, Co-Founder and Co-Director, AIDS-Free World; Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Associate Dean of Global Health, and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago; Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director, Cure Violence. Moderated by Megan Murphy.

 

Scarcity of Resources: A Growing Demand for Food, Water, and Energy

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Murphy Auditorium, 50 E Erie St, Chicago

Cities are growing in population, and decreasing in available resources. Many of the world’s global cities were designed centuries ago and are adapting their antiquated infrastructure to meet twenty-first century demands. How can global cities harness their concentration of wealth, human resources, private investment, and research capacities to devise solutions for the world’s greatest challenges, particularly the growing demand for food, water, and energy?

Speakers: Eilon M. Adar, Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid Zones, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Philip Enquist, Global City Design Practice Lead, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; David Miller, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund–Canada; Former Mayor, Toronto; Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. Moderated by Ed Crooks.

 

Closing Program: The Foreign Policy of Cities

Friday 05/29 11:30 am - 2:00 pm - Navy Pier, Grand Ballroom, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago

Global cities engage globally through partnerships, exchanges, and agreements led by businesses, cultural and educational institutions, and civic leadership. But how can global cities coordinate the multitude of siloed efforts to develop a cohesive foreign policy on behalf of the city as a whole? How do global cities cooperate with—or disrupt—national interests by having their own global agendas?

To further examine the foreign policy of cities, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is conducting a study on Chicago’s foreign policy with generous support provided by The Chicago Community Trust. The task force report will be released this fall.

Speakers: Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; former Secretary, US Department of State; Benjamin Barber, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor, The Hague; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Former Foreign Minister and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom. Moderated by Philip Stephens.

Register
May
29
2015

Chicago Forum on Global Cities

SHOW DETAILS

When: Friday, May 29, 2015
All day  

Where: Chicago,

Contact: Janka Pieper   (847) 467-6953

Group: International Program Development

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Northwestern community invited to attend Chicago Forum on Global Cities programs for free

Northwestern University is proud to be a Knowledge Partner of the Chicago Forum on Global Cities. The Chicago Forum on Global Cities, hosted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Financial Times, will convene in Chicago from May 27 to 29, 2015. It will bring together global city leaders of the four pillars vital to urban life—business, education, arts and culture, civics—for a multidisciplinary discussion on how they can collaborate to make their cities more economically vital, socially inclusive, and environmentally livable. The future of global cities will be defined by the mayors and maestros, the scholars and CEOs, who will attend and participate in this unique global forum in a unique global city.

Northwestern faculty, staff and students are invited to attend any of the listed programs and sessions below for free.

Please register here by Friday, May 22nd. (Northwestern Registration link: https://weinberg.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0TyPfyWdPlQIcDP)

Northwestern staff, faculty, and students who have questions about the Forum or registering for it can contact Janka Pieper in International Program Development at j-pieper@northwestern.edu or 847-467-5344.

_______

Opening Program: Global Cities Driving the Global Economy

Wednesday 05/27 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm - Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St.

Global cities are driving today’s global economy. Some, such as New York and London are global financial centers. Los Angeles stands at the peak of the global entertainment industry. Hong Kong and Singapore loom over global trading. São Paulo, Seoul, and Chicago have taken their historical expertise in industry and turned into global centers of industrial knowledge. In what ways are the world’s most powerful and global cities, rather than national governments, serving as the economic engines of the twenty-first century? Is the concentration of economic activity in global cities disrupting international norms? How are global cities positioned to serve as hubs of global trade and commerce, and what role do they play in international trade negotiations.

Speakers: Ajay Banga, President and CEO, MasterCard; Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Founder and Chairman, Paulson Institute; former Secretary, US Treasury; Robert E. Rubin, Cochairman, Council on Foreign Relations; former Secretary, US Treasury; Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times


Reimagining Urban Infrastructure

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago

The world’s population is increasingly urban. Today, over 50 percent of the world lives in urban areas—a percentage that is projected to increase to 66 percent by 2050. Increased urbanization has placed new and unprecedented stresses on aging infrastructure, antiquated urban plans, housing needs, and transportation demands. What innovative initiatives have been developed to address these challenges? How are global city leaders, the private sector, and civic communities collaborating to invest in developments and urban renewal that benefit and enhance the standard of living of all communities?

Speakers: Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, CityView; Former Mayor, San Antonio; Former Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Theaster Gates, Professor and the Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation. Moderated by Simon Kuper.


Inclusive Cities: Poverty, Youth, and Immigration

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago

Global cities attract diverse populations from around the world, including high-skilled workers, families, artists, students, and other jobseekers. What policies have cities adopted to encourage a culture of inclusion so that their populations are free from discrimination based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disabilities, or special needs? How are global cities managing the challenges and opportunities presented by such a socially and economically diverse population? What is the economic benefit to the city to invest in inclusive policies?

Speakers: Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, Secretary for the Economic Development of the Federal District, City of Mexico City; Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education; Boubker Mazoz, President and Founder, Sister Cities Africa; Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director and Adjunct Professor, Global Diversity Exchange, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University; Kasim Reed, Mayor, Atlanta, Georgia. Moderated by Tony Barber.


Emerging Economy Cities and Boom Towns

Thursday 05/28 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - Murphy Auditorium, 50 East Erie Street, Chicago

Many cities in developing countries are fast becoming global cities. They are dynamic, reinventing themselves, growing, and transforming. Which cities in developing nations around the world are likely to emerge as new global cities? What factors are driving their growth? What impact will these new global centers have on the economies of their countries and regions?

Speakers: Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Mark Hoplamazian, President and CEO, Hyatt Hotels Corporation; Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, The Abraaj Group; Yuan Ming, Professor of International Relations, Peking University. Moderated by Jamil Anderlini

 

University of Chicago Urban Labs

Thursday 05/28 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago

The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs has developed a unique model to improve urban life. Through deep partnerships with the public sector and nonprofits, they provide timely research. Through an integrated approach across multiple domains, they allow for comprehensive interventions. And with advanced analytics, they can quickly determine the most effective interventions

Speakers: Evelyn J. Diaz, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Family & Supportive Services; Timothy Knowles, Pritzker Director, University of Chicago Urban Labs; Jens Ludwig, Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab; Codirector, Education Lab; McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy; David O. Meltzer, Director, University of Chicago Health Lab; Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine; Director, Center for Health and the Social Sciences; Chair, Committee on Clinical and Translational Science, University of Chicago. Moderated by John Paul Rathbone.

 

Safer Cities: Security and Vulnerability

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - Spertus Institute, 610 S Michigan Ave, Chicago


As centers of political and economic power, global cities are particularly vulnerable to security threats and instability. While pandemics, acts of terrorism, civil unrest, and natural disasters can occur in any urban environment, they often hit global cities first and hardest. How are global cities prepared to address twenty-first century security risks? How are they building their capacity in airports, surveillance technology, data sets, and communications? Will the new technologies designed to help cities confront these challenges help or hinder their efforts? How can cities collaborate globally to effectively prevent and respond to these concerns?

Speakers: Edward F. Davis, President and CEO, Edward Davis, LLC; Mark Filip, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis; Khoo Boon Hui, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore; former President, INTERPOL; Keith Williams, President and CEO, UL LLC; Wong Chun-Kau, Jolly, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Smart City, Shanghai University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Moderated by Gillian Tett.


Providing Health Care

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St, Chicago

The diversity of a global city requires a comprehensive – and forward thinking – public health plan. Providing access to care, preparing for health concerns such as pandemics or epidemics, and building a competitive health care industry are all critical responsibilities of a global city. What solutions can be implemented to ensure residents are provided with superior health care and benefitting from the riches of living in a global city? To what degree are urban violence and crime a public health concern?

Speakers: Harry L. Leider, Chief Medical Officer and Group Vice President, Walgreens Company; Stephen Lewis, Co-Founder and Co-Director, AIDS-Free World; Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Associate Dean of Global Health, and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago; Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director, Cure Violence. Moderated by Megan Murphy.

 

Scarcity of Resources: A Growing Demand for Food, Water, and Energy

Thursday 05/28 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm - The Murphy Auditorium, 50 E Erie St, Chicago

Cities are growing in population, and decreasing in available resources. Many of the world’s global cities were designed centuries ago and are adapting their antiquated infrastructure to meet twenty-first century demands. How can global cities harness their concentration of wealth, human resources, private investment, and research capacities to devise solutions for the world’s greatest challenges, particularly the growing demand for food, water, and energy?

Speakers: Eilon M. Adar, Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid Zones, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Philip Enquist, Global City Design Practice Lead, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; David Miller, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund–Canada; Former Mayor, Toronto; Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. Moderated by Ed Crooks.

 

Closing Program: The Foreign Policy of Cities

Friday 05/29 11:30 am - 2:00 pm - Navy Pier, Grand Ballroom, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago

Global cities engage globally through partnerships, exchanges, and agreements led by businesses, cultural and educational institutions, and civic leadership. But how can global cities coordinate the multitude of siloed efforts to develop a cohesive foreign policy on behalf of the city as a whole? How do global cities cooperate with—or disrupt—national interests by having their own global agendas?

To further examine the foreign policy of cities, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is conducting a study on Chicago’s foreign policy with generous support provided by The Chicago Community Trust. The task force report will be released this fall.

Speakers: Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; former Secretary, US Department of State; Benjamin Barber, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor, The Hague; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Former Foreign Minister and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom. Moderated by Philip Stephens.

Register