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Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (GUD), an international policy organization and professional network of nearly 700 leaders and experts in sixty countries. He serves as a Lead Partner and Steering Committee member of UN- Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, and as a member of the Board of Directors of IHC Global. Currently he coordinates the Porto Alegre Sustainable Innovation Zone (ZISPOA), a key initiative of GUD’s World Bank-funded Leapfrog Economic Strategy for Brazil’s State of Rio Grande do Sul to become the most sustainable and innovative place in Latin America by 2030. Also, he is an International Visiting Professor for the Post-Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, where he also serves as Coordinator of the ZISPOA Project in the School of Engineering, and Vice Coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research in Urban Economics (NEPEU) in the Faculty of Economics.
He has been an adviser on Metropolitan Economic Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, and Inclusive Prosperity for cities, counties, regions, states, and provinces throughout the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Morocco, Panama, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UK, US, and the Virgin Islands. He worked with the Brazil and US Governments and the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) to organize an international conference in Curitiba, Brazil during June 7-8, 2011 on “Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas.”
He previously served as: Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Coordinator of the 1998 Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC, and Chairman of the NoMa Metro Station Corporation; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Liaison to the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in the Clinton Administration; Associate Professor and Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center, Acting Director of the PhD Program in Urban Planning, and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; and Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation.
He is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and reports, including a widely acclaimed book on urban development and planning, The Rise of the Community Builders, published by Columbia University Press, and a best-selling international university textbook, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land Institute.
Dr. Weiss earned a PhD and MCP in City and Regional Planning from the University of California-Berkeley, and a BA with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University. He also attended the London School of Economics.
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