Research Team:

GOVERNANCE, MOBILITY AND POVERTY REDUCTION:
LESSONS FROM MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Medellín, 12th to 14th December 2011
List of speakers
(Updated 27 November 2011)
Research Team:
From University College London:
Dr Julio D Dávila
Caren Levy
Professor Nick Tyler
Diana Daste
From Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín campus):
Dr Peter C. Brand
Professor Francoise Coupé
Professor Iván Sarmiento
Ángela Mejía
Laura Agudelo
From Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá):
Dr Juan Pablo Bocarejo
Professor Jorge Acevedo
Nicolás Rueda
Hernando Vargas
Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá):
Dr Diana Bocarejo
Dr María José Alvarez
International commentators
Professor Ralph Gakenheimer. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston
Professor Edgar Pieterse. Director, African Centre for Cities, Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Anvita Arora. Director and CEO, Innovative Transport Solutions. New Delhi, India
Freddy Koch. Director, Clean Air Project, Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation, La Paz, Bolivia
Dr Sumila Gulyani. Head, Urbanization Knowledge Platform, The World Bank, Washington DC (to be
confirmed).
Dr Paola Jirón. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Professor Adrián Guillermo Aguilar. Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM), Mexico City
Nathalie Naranjo. Director, Instituto de Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
Pedro Rivera. Director of Rua Arquitetos. Director Studio - X, Rio.- Columbia University, Graduate School
of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Professor of Architecture Lab at PUC-Rio - Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC Rio.
National Commentators:
Arq. José Fernando Ángel, Former Secretary of transport and transit, Medellín
Luis Pérez, Metro de Medellín (To be confirmed)
Soledad Betancur, Instituto Popular de Capacitación, Medellín
Jaime Hernández, Universidad Javeriana, Bogot
Ricardo Montezuma, Executive Director, Fundación Ciudad Humana Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
Bogotá