¶ Global Urban Development
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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)
¶ External links
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 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
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/ ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved January 3, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100103060119/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved March 19, 2009, from https://web.archive.org/web/20090319020151/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved February 22, 2006, from http://archive.today/2006.02.22-234852/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved August 14, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150814161704/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved May 13, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080513080748/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved August 22, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130822074058/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved October 22, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20191022185746/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎ ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160403034047/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved December 20, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161220160816/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
Board of Directors. Global Urban Development. Retrieved March 9, 2007, from http://archive.today/2007.03.09-232018/http://www.globalurban.org/bod.htm ↩︎
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 ↩︎
Advisory Board. Global Urban Development. Retrieved December 12, 2005, from https://web.archive.org/web/20051212182801/http://www.globalurban.org/ad_board.htm ↩︎
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 ↩︎ ↩︎
Home. Global Innovation Commons. Retrieved February 7, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.02.07-132013/http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/ ↩︎