Farida Moha

Diplôme Ecole de journalisme, DESS , Doctorat des Sciences et techniques de la communication

-Diplôme des gestions Université d’ Atlanta Etats-Unis

Carrière professionnelle

-1978- 1998 : Correspondante de Radio France Internationale au Maghrebç
-Correspondante de presse hebdomadaire : Jeune Afrique, Le Point , Journal La Croix
-Collaboration avec Presse Nationale ; El Bayane , Libération,le Matin

Parallèlement à mes activités de journaliste, j’ai été consultante de l’UNICEF pour pilotage d’ une campagne de vaccination auprès de 5 millions d’ enfants de moins de 5 ans 

-Etudes et dossiers réalisées pour  l’office d’Immigration OMI , l’UNICEF, ONU Habitat … Et un ouvrage (250 pages) sur l’Histoire de la Caisse de Dépôt et de gestion du Maroc  « Fragments de mémoire »

Greg Moore

Chair, Metro Vancouver Board of Directors. Mayor, City of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia

Greg Moore is the Chair of the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors and the Mayor of the City of Port Coquitlam in British Columbia, Canada. Prior to his 2011 election as Chair of the Board, Mr. Moore was Chair of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee and oversaw the development of the region’s new Solid Waste Management Plan. Before becoming Mayor, Mr. Moore  worked for the City of Port Coquitlam for 10 years as a Youth Worker and City Planner. In the past 5 years, he has founded two non-profit organizations:  Homes For Good - Ending Homelessness Society (www.homesforgood.ca) and I Am Someone - Ending Bullying Society (www.iamsomeone.ca).

Metro Vancouver is the regional governing body of a federation of 24 local authorities that includes 22 municipalities, one electoral area and a Treaty First Nation, and provides political leadership and regional services – including solid waste, sewerage, drinking water, growth management, housing, and parks – to over 2.3 million residents on Canada’s southwest coast. 

Jenaro García Martín

GOWEX CEO

Joaquim Oliveira Martins

Head of Regional Development Policy Division, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD

Mr Joaquim Oliveira Martins is Head of the OECD Regional Development Policy Division. Current projects cover the determinants and distribution of regional growth, regional innovation, urban development and green growth and multi-level governance.

He was the former Head of the Structural Economic Statistics Division, focusing on Trade & Globalisation indicators, Productivity measurement and Business statistics. Previously, he was Senior Economist at the Economics Department heading projects on the Economics of Education, Ageing and Growth, and Health Systems. He was also Head of Desk for emerging markets, where he was in charge of the first Economic Surveys of Brazil, Chile and several transition countries.

Jockin Arputham

President of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), and President of National Slum Dwellers Indian Federation

Jockin Arputham, from Mumbai, India, is the director of Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), a movement to mobilize and empower squatters that spans 23 countries around the world. He is also a founding member of SPARC, the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, an NGO that works in 21 cities in India.

Key to his work are communal savings associations that pool the contributions of the participants, allowing the urban poor to effect the development of their communities. In three years' time, 95,000 families will have been housed in Mumbai alone.

A slum dweller himself, Jockin has met with government ministers around the world to talk about what they can do for the more than 1 billion urban squatters in the world today.

In 2000 he was joint winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award, which honors courageous service to people and communities around the world

Margareta Wahlström

Secretaria General Adjunta de Asuntos Humanitarios y Coordinadora Adjunta de Socorro de Urgencia de las Naciones Unidas

Margareta Wahlström has over 30 years of extensive national and international experience in humanitarian relief operations in disaster and conflict areas, and in institution-building to strengthen national capacity for disaster preparedness, response and for risk reduction.

In November 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced her appointment as the first Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. Ms. Wahlström is based in Geneva and heads UNISDR, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Ms. Wahlström has an academic background in economic history, political science, social anthropology, archaeology and philosophy of science. She speaks English, Swedish, French and Spanish. She is from Sweden. 

Miguel Lifschitz

National Senator, Former Mayor of Rosario 

Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (born September 13, 1955 in Rosario), is the former mayor of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He obtained his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979, and worked in the private sector until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service (Director General del Servicio Público de la Vivienda) of the city of Rosario, under the socialist administration of Héctor Cavallero. He continued working in various public offices, as Municipal Secretary-General (Secretario General de la Municipalidad), Public Services' Secretary (Secretario de Servicios Públicos) and General Cabinet Coordinator for the Municipality of Rosario (Coordinador General de Gabinete de la Municipalidad de Rosario), between June and December 2003, under the administration of Hermes Binner. Lifschitz ran for Mayor of Rosario and was elected in the provincial elections of 7 September 2003 for the period 2003–2007.  He won his reelection for the period 2007–2011,  in 2011 he was succeeded by Mónica Fein

Mohamed Sajid

Mayor of Casablanca, Morocco

From 1961 to 1963, he studied at “Lycée Lyautey” a school in Casablanca.

In 1971, he was graduated from Business National College in Lille (France).

He is a businessman and a politician. He started his political career in 1993 as a Deputy of  Taroudant,  a city situated in the Souss Valley in the southern part of Morocco; representing the Constitutional Union Party.

He has been the Chairman of the City Council of Casablanca since 2003.

Mohammed SAJID was elected as a Mayor of the city of Casablanca in June 2003 and re-elected for a second term 2009-2015.

He is a landowner; he has developed projects in Tit Mellil through Social Housing Operations. Since then, he chaired several industrial companies, namely "Mazafil Textile Company."

Vice President and recently elected as the Treasurer of the International Association of Francophone Mayors.

Vice President of the National Association of Moroccan Elected Members. 

Salvador Esteve I Figueras

Presidente de la Diputación de Barcelona / Presidente de la Comisión de Descentralización y Autonomía Local de CGLU

Salvador Esteve i Figueras nació en Martorell (29 de abril de 1945), donde reside. Está casado y es padre de cinco hijos y abuelo de 12 nietos. Con estudios de comercio, contabilidad y formación profesional en la rama del ahorro, es alcalde de Martorell (en el período 1987-2003 y desde el 2007 hasta ahora). Ha sido diputado en el Parlamento de Cataluña en la IV, V i VI legislaturas (1992-2003) y presidente de la Associació Catalana de Municipios i Provincias hasta el año 2011, cuando lo dejó al ser escogido presidente de la Diputación de Barcelona, cargo que todavía hoy ostenta.

Actualmente, también ocupa la presidencia de la Fundación Democracia y Gobierno Local, el secretariado del Arco Latino y la presidencia de la Comisión de Descentralización y Autonomía Local de la organización mundial de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales Unidos.