Invited Speakers

Mayor Rui Moreira, Porto, PORTUGAL. 2019 IMCL Joseph P. Riley Awardee. Making Porto a Healthy City for All
Mayor Ada Colau,* Barcelona, SPAIN. 2019 City of Vision Award. Making Barcelona’s Neighborhoods Healthy and Equitable

Mayor James Brainard, City of Carmel, IN. Former Member of President Obama's Climate Task Force. Protecting Health through Better Urban Design
Rukaiyah Adams, Chief Investment Officer, Meyer Memorial Trust, Portland, OR, USA. Albina Vision

George Crandall, FAIA, Principal, Crandall Arambula, Portland, OR. Fixing Your City
Lynn Peterson, President, METRO, Portland, OR, USA. Improving Health and Equity through Sustainable Planning in Portland’s METRO Region

Patrick Condon, Professor, UBC Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA. Author: 5 Rules for Tomorrow's Cities (forthcoming). Urban design in the face of a worldwide crisis in affordability

Leilani Farha*, Executive Director of the NGO Canada Without Poverty.  Special UN Rapporteur on the implementation of the right to adequate housing for the most marginalized groups. Roots of Housing Unaffordability and Homelessness: Tools for Housing Equity.

George Ferguson, CBE, PPRIBA, Architect, former Mayor, City of Bristol, UK. Urban Places for All

Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH. Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. When Necessities Become Luxuries, How Can the Poor Live? 
Ferdinand Stoddert Johns, FAIA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus. IMCL Board. Design Matters
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Ph.D., Research Professor in Environmental Epidemiology, Director Urban planning, Environment and Health Initiative, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, SPAIN Pathways to healthy urban living
Leah Treat, Managing Director, Nelson Nygard, Portland. OR, USA. Improving Health and Equity through Sustainable Transportation Planning
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., former Freiburg Mayor and Governor, State of Süd-Baden, GERMANY, responsible for guiding Europe’s most livable and sustainable new urban neighborhoods, Rieselfeld and Vauban. Freiburg: Healthy Mobility for All

Ettore Maria Mazzola, Architect & Urbanist, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Rome, ITALY. Recovering Trastevere

Michael W. Mehaffy, Urban Designer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,  Stockholm. Portland as an International Laboratory – What Have We Learned?
Lamine Mahdjoubi*, Professor, Director of Centre for Architecture and the Built Environment Research, Faculty of Environment and Technology, UWE Bristol, UK. Why Children Need to be able to Play on their Neighborhood Streets
* Not yet confirmed