LSE Cities Director Ricky Burdett has joined Carlo Ratti and Geoff Mulgan on the Bloomberg 2013-2014 Mayors Challenge selection committee.
The full selection committee is comprised of:
- Christian Bason, Director of MindLab (Denmark)
- Till Behnke, Founder of betterplace.org (Germany)
- Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Director of LSE Cities (United Kingdom)
- Bruno Giussani, European Director of TED (Switzerland)
- Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Advisor to the Secretary-General and Former Head of the Urban Programme at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) (France)
- Christine Leitner, Senior Policy Advisor at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth (Austria)
- Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Former Secretary of State for Administrative Modernization (Portugal)
- Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of Nesta (United Kingdom)
- Bertin Nahum, President and CEO of Medtech SA (France)
- Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT Senseable City Lab and Founder of Carlo Ratti Associati (Italy)
- Silvija Seres, Independent Investor and Board Member and Managing Director of TechnoRocks (Norway)
- Iván Tosics, Managing Director of Metropolitan Research Institute (Hungary)
For full details, visit http://mayorschallenge.bloomberg.org/