SPEAKERS

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List of Confirmed Speakers

This is the list of confirmed speakers as of 26 October 2010 | The Global Forum website is being constantly updated so please check back frequently for the latest news.


Keynote Speakers

CHAN, Margaret
Director-General, World Health Organization| Biography

FASHOLA, Babatunde Raji
Governor, Lagos State, Nigeria| Biography

MATSUZAWA, Shigefumi
Governor, Kanagawa Prefectural Government, Japan| Biography

SROT, Bojan
Mayor of Celje, Slovenia| Biography

SHEN, Xiaoming
Vice-Mayor, Shanghai City, China

Expert Panelists

AGARWAL, Satya Paul
Chair of the IFRC Advisory Body on Sustainable Development and Health
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , India
AHMED, Ihsan Jaafar
Director-General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Iraq| Biography

AYAZI, Seyed Mohammad Hadi
Deputy Mayor, Tehran, Iran
BERNABE Jr, Florencio M.
Mayor, Paranaque, Philippines
BANG, Thai
Health Environment Management Agency, Ministry of Health, Viet Nam| Biography

BONU, Sekhar
Director, South Asia Operations and Coordination, South Asia Regional Department, Asia Development Bank| Biography

CISNEROS, Jorge
Manager, Initiative on Municipal Enterprises, Municipality of Cuenca, Ecuador| Biography

EL SAYED, Sayed Adb El Aziz
Governor, Giza, Egypt
GILBERT, James
Director-General, Strategic Policy and International Affairs, Public Health Agency of Canada,| Biography

GONZALEZ, Alex Francisco
Municipal Representative, Municipal Government, Santa Tecla, El Salvador| Biography

GOULD, Ronald
Councilor, Liverpool City Council (Former Lord Mayor, Liverpool), United Kingdom
HONSELL, Furio
Mayor, Udine, Italy| Biography

HUMPHREY, William
Deputy Lord Mayor, Belfast, United Kingdom| Biography

ISSA, Shadi-Amer
Minister of Health, Al Jafarah District, Libya
KIGOZI, Margaret Jean
Executive Director, Uganda Investment Authority, Uganda
KOLB, Anthony
Urban Health Advisor, US Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA
LEWIS, Yvonne
Director, Health Promotion Unit, Trinidad & Tobago
MATSUZAWA, Shigefumi
Governor, Kanagawa, Japan| Biography

MBOUP, Gora
Senior Demographic/Health Expert & Chief, Global Urban Observatory, UN-HABITAT| Biography

MELAKU, Kefyalew Azeze
Deputy Mayor, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia| Biography

MICHAEL, Lionel
Chief Environmental Officer, Ministry of Health, Antigua and Barbuda
MOHAMED, Ali Jaffer
Special Adviser to the Minister and Director General of Health Affairs, Oman
MOHAMUD, Hussein Mohamed
Mayor, Hargeisa| Biography

MURNI, Sylviana
Mayor, Central Jakarta, Indonesia| Biography

PARIBATRA, Sukhumbhand
Governor, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand| Biography

RAHIM, Ejaz
Former Federal Health Secretary, Pakistan
RAVEN, Jeffrey
Architect/Urbanist, New York, USA
SHIKONGO, Matheus Kristof
Mayor of Windhoek, Namibia| Biography

TANIGUCHI, Kazushige
Special Representative, World Bank, Japan| Biography

TANIK, Haki Bulent
Mayor of Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey
TIMOTHY, Julius C.
Minister for Health (with responsibility for Urban Renewal), Dominica| Biography

VELA, Hern?n
General Director, Institutional & Community Coordination, Buenos Aires, Argentina| Biography

VELASQUEZ, Jerry
Senior Regional Coordinator, UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Asia & the Pacific| Biography

VILLASENOR, Ignacio Ruiz
Health Services Secretary and Expert on Urban Health, Mexico City, Mexico| Biography

WESTPHAL, Marcia
President, Center for Studies, Research, and Documentation on Healthy Cities, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil| Biography

WHITEHEAD, Margaret
Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
YAMADA, Yoriyuki
Deputy General Manager, Kajima Corporation, Japan


Others

KOINANGE, Jeff
Global Forum Moderator (Chief Anchor and Talk Show Host, K24, Nairobi, Kenya)