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Global Urban Development

Global Urban Development (GUD), formerly the Prague Institute for Global Urban Development,[1] is an American non-profit organization based in Delaware.

History

GUD was conceived on September 11, 2001, and was officially incorporated in Washington, D.C. on December 3, 2001 as the Prague Institute for Global Urban Development.[1:1] In October 2005, the organization changed its name to Global Urban Development.

Organization

Name Position Notes
Marc Weiss Chairman and CEO[2] Ethical Markets Media
Nicky Gavron Vice Chairman,[3] Director[4] Greater London Authority
Peter Hall Vice Chairman[5] Bartlett School of Planning
Emiel Wedelin Vice Chairman URBACT
James Nixon President[3:1] Climate Prosperity Strategies, Sustainable Economic Development Network, Sustainable Systems[6]
Lin Hawkins Secretary-Treasurer -
Nancy Sedmak-Weiss Secretary-Treasurer and Chief Legal Officer;[1:2] President (former)[5:1] Climate Prosperity Strategies,[7] Metropolitan Economic Strategy
Rosa Alegria Director[8] Millennium Project
Claire Blanchard Director[9] World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Lawrence Bloom Director[10] Pathway Alliance, Be Earth Foundation, Be Energy[11]
Rachel Fleishman Director Climate Change Business Forum, BASF
Banning Garrett Director[9:1] Singularity University, Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils
Hazel Henderson Director[3:2] Ethical Markets Media
Julie Childers Henry Director Green Business Leadership Council
Bianca Jagger Director World Future Council
C.S. Kiang Director[3:3] Sustainable Development Technology Foundation
Thomas Kingsley Director Urban Institute
Vivian Lin Director[12] La Trobe University, World Health Organization (WHO)
Michael Lindfield Director Asian Development Bank
Tony Manwaring Director Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
David E. Martin Board member[13] M•CAM International, Mosaic Technologies, Arlington Institute
Patricia McCarney Director Global City Indicators Facility (GCIF), Munk Center for International Studies, Global Cities Institute, World Council on City Data
Jiang Mingjun Director International Ecological Safety Collaborative Organization (IESCO)
Shelley Poticha Director[6:1] Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Jonas Rabinovitch Director United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Tom Roper Director Climate Institute
Nola-Kate Seymoar Director International Center for Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Cities International, Vancouver City Planning Commission
Asad Shah Director National University of Science and Technology, Global Think Tank Network
Mark Willis Director JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation, New York University (NYU)
Nicholas You Director United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation
Belinda Yuen Director World Bank
Robert Zdenek Director Public Health Institute
Molly O'Meara Sheehan Advisor[14] Worldwatch Institute

Partners

GUD has been partnered with:[15][1:3]

  • 350.org
  • American Chambers of Commerce Abroad
  • American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
  • American Planning Association (APA)
  • Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
  • Ashoka
  • Asian Development Bank
  • Atlantic Council
  • Bartlett Development Planning Unit
  • Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP)
  • Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI)
  • Brookings Institution
  • Building and Social Housing Foundation
  • C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
  • Carbon War Room
  • Cities Alliance
  • Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI)
  • Citistates Group
  • City of Curitiba
  • City of Denver
  • Clean Economy Solutions (CES)
  • Climate Group
  • Climate Prosperity Alliance
  • Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
  • Coalition for Sustainable Urbanisation
  • Community Productivity Project (CPP)
  • Development Gateway
  • Earth Policy Institute
  • EMBARQ
  • Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA)
  • Envisioning Sustainable Futures
  • Ethical Markets Media
  • European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON)
  • Georgetown Global Education Initiative (GGEI)
  • Global City Indicators Facility
  • Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC)
  • Global Housing Indicators (CHI)
  • Global Innovation Commons[16]
  • Global Labor Institute
  • GLOBE Forum
  • Grameen Trust
  • Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
  • Grassroots Women's International Academy (GWIA)
  • Green World City
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Hampton Roads Partnership (HRP)
  • Huairou Commission
  • ICLEA - Local Governments for Sustainability
  • Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)
  • Inter-American Development Bank
  • International Chamber of Commerce
  • International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
  • International Downtown Association
  • International Economic Development Council (IEDC)
  • International Housing Coalition (IHC)
  • International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
  • International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • M•CAM International
  • Mayors Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP)
  • Metropolis
  • Microcredit Summit Campaign
  • Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI)
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Mother Centers International Network for Empowerment (MINE)
  • National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO)
  • National Governors Association (NGA)
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Participatory Budgeting Project
  • Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT)
  • Sarasota County Government
  • ShoreBank International (SBI)
  • Sister Cities International
  • Slum Dwellers International (SDI)
  • State of the World Forum[15:1]
  • Sustainable Cities International
  • Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership (SDKP)
  • Sustainable Economic Development Network
  • Tällberg Foundation
  • Tomorrow's Company
  • United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
  • United Nations (UN)
  • United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA)
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
  • United States Department of State (DOS)
  • United Way
  • Urban Age Institute
  • Urban Land Institute
  • Urbanization Knowledge Partnership
  • Washington International Renewable Energy Conference
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • World Bank
  • World Business Academy
  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  • World Economic Forum (WEF)
  • World Future Council (WFC)
  • World Social Forum
  • World Urban Forum
  • Young Foundation

Funding

GUD has received funding from:[1:4]

  • Environmental Defense Fund
  • European Commission
  • Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA)
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • United States Department of Energy (DOE)

  1. Weiss, M. A. (2013, May 21). GUD’s 10th Anniversary Update, 2001-2011. Global Urban Development. https://web.archive.org/web/20220122023356/https://globalurban.org/GUD_10-year_Update.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Research Advisory Board. Ethical Markets Media. Retrieved May 5, 2010, from http://archive.today/2010.05.05-180316/http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/about/research-advisory-board/ ↩︎

  3. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved January 3, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100103060119/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from https://web.archive.org/web/20090319020151/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  5. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved February 22, 2006, from http://archive.today/2006.02.22-234852/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved August 14, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150814161704/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎

  7. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved May 13, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080513080748/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  8. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved August 22, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130822074058/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  9. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved October 22, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20191022185746/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎

  10. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160403034047/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  11. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved December 20, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161220160816/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  12. Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved March 9, 2007, from http://archive.today/2007.03.09-232018/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎

  13. Dr. David E. Martin. M•CAM International. Retrieved October 5, 2014, from https://web.archive.org/web/20141005194210/http://www.m-cam.com/david-e-martin ↩︎

  14. Advisory Board. Global Urban Development. Retrieved December 12, 2005, from https://web.archive.org/web/20051212182801/http://www.globalurban.org/ad_board.htm ↩︎

  15. Washington, D.C. State of the World Forum Sponsors and Partners. State of the World Forum. Retrieved January 5, 2010, from http://archive.today/2010.01.05-161010/http://www.worldforum.org/2009sponsors-partners.htm ↩︎ ↩︎

  16. Home. Global Innovation Commons. Retrieved February 7, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.02.07-132013/http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/ ↩︎