Opening Session: Re-think & Co-act

01.10.2021 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Room | SESSION

Moderator

Nihal Eminoğlu

Dr., Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Philipp Rode

Dr., Executive Director, LSE Cities

Shipra Narang Suri

Chief of Urban Practices Branch, UN-Habitat

Soo-Jin Kim

Head of Urban Policies and Reviews Unit, OECD

Louisa Vinton

Resident Representative, UNDP Turkey

Tahir Büyükakın

President, Marmara Municipalities Union & Mayor, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality

Global challenges such as COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, mass migration movements caused by political or environmental factors shake the resilience of cities and their governance mechanisms. Now it is time for cities developing solutions to re-think and co-act on the global and regional problems they face. The opening session of Marmara Urban Forum, hosted by the Marmara Municipalities Union, presents a vision of the present and future of cities through the eyes of representatives from distinguished organizations around the world.