INSTITUTIONAL SESSIONS

With the special collaboration of

Session 1: New Urban Policies in Madrid City

Thursday, 2.00PM -3:30PM  (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator:  Mr. Ignacio Niño Pérez, Chief Executive Officer of the Madrid Bureau of International Strategy and Action “Madrid Global”

Speakers:

-Mr. Ignacio Niño Pérez, Chief Executive Officer of the Madrid Bureau of International Strategy and Action “Madrid Global”: The new International Strategy of Madrid City

-Ms. Cristina Mateo Rebollo, Advisor at Madrid Global: Ranking the Cities in the International Marketplace: the Experience of Madrid

-Mr. José María Rubio de Urquía, Director General for Sustainability and for the Agenda 21 at Madrid City Council: City Economic Development Strategy and Climate Change

-Ms. Laura López de Ceraín, Director General of Immigration and Co-operation for Development at Madrid City Council: Madrid’s Social Policy

-Mr. Juan Manuel Fernández Alonso, Deputy Director General of Urban Planning at Madrid City Council: Urban Planning in Madrid

Session 2: Networks of Cities in America and Europe and their role

Thursday, 4.00PM -5:30PM  (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator: Mr. Pedro Calvo-Sotelo; Director General for International Relations, City Hall of Madrid

Speakers:

-Mr., Paul Bevan General Secretary of EUROCITIES

-Mr. Christopher Hoene, Center for Policy and Research, National League of Cities (NLC), USA

-Ms. Sara Hoeflich de Duque, Project Manager, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

-Ms. Barbara Moehlendick, City Hall of Cologne (Germany)

Session 3: UN Millenium Project: The Task Force 8 on improving the lives of slum dwellers

Friday, 10.00AM -11:30AM  (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator: Ms. Miryam Hazan Bejar, (Migration Policy Institute and University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Speakers:

-Mr. Elliott Sclar, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, USA

-Mr. Pietro Garau, Director, Urban Studies Centre for the Developing Countries (Centro PVS), Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Session 4: Central State and urban Policies in Spain: some sectoral approaches

Friday, 12:00PM-13:30PM (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator: Ms. Cristina  Mateo (City Hall of Madrid)

Speakers:

-Ms. Mª del Rosario Alonso Ibáñez (Director General of Land and Urban Policies, Ministry of Housing): Policies of Integrated Urban Development: Regeneration of the existing city and disadvantaged boroughs

- Mr. Angel Aparicio Mourelo (Director General of CEDEX, Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas Ministry of Public Works): The activity of CEDEX in the context of the sustainable urban transport

- Mr. Enrique Jiménez Larrea  (Director General of  IDAE, Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía (Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Ministry of Industry, Tourism  and Commerce): Energy efficiency and renewables in the sustainable city.

-Ms. María Jesús Rodríguez de Sancho (Director general for Quality and Environmental Evaluation, Ministry of Environment, Rural and Sea Resources): The Spanish Strategy of Sustainable Mobility

Session 5: The Role of the Council of Europe on Local and Regional Authorities

Friday, 3:00PM-4:30PM (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator: Mr. José Manuel Rodríguez Álvarez (City Hall of Madrid and Universidad Complutense of Madrid)

Speakers:

-Mr. Alfonso Zardi, Secretary of the European Committee for Local and Regional Democracy of the Council of Europe

Session 6:  The Urban Policies of the Autonomous Communities in Spain

Friday, 5:00PM-6:30PM (Floor 3, Room 1)

Moderator: Mr. Christian Lefèvre (LATTS Université Paris-Val-la-Marne)

-Mr. Oriol Nel.lo, General Secretary of Territorial Planning of the Government (Generalitat) of Catalonia

-Mr. Alberto Leboreiro, Deputy Director of Regional Planning of the Autonomous Community (Region) of Madrid

-Mr. Javier Torrens, President of the Association of Municipalities of Pamplona (Navarra)

-Mr. Jesús María Erquicia, Head of the Service of Territorial Planning, Basque Country Government.