2014 MAS Summit for New York City

Eugenie L. Birch FAICP, RTPI (hon), is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, Chair, Graduate Group of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, co-director, Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and co-editor, City in the 21st Century series, University of Pennsylvania Press. Her most recent books are: Women’s Health and the World’s Cities (with Afaf Meleis and Susan Wachter) Global... Read More →

President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak joined Creative Time in the fall of 1994. Since then, Creative Time has collaborated with hundreds of artists to ignite the public's imagination, explore ideas that shape society, and bring groundbreaking public art to millions of people around the world. Thanks to Pasternak's vision, Creative Time is the only public arts organization with programs that have reached from New York to Hanoi to outer... Read More →

Nithya V. Raman is an urban planner who has been working in India for nearly a decade. Her research and writing has focused on urban governance, slums and access to land and services, and transparency. In 2010, she founded Transparent Chennai, which creates maps and information about neglected civic issues to support advocacy by and for the urban poor. The team’s research is cited widely, and has informed public discourse and... Read More →

Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Mr. Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Mr. Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and... Read More →

Andrew Rudd is the Urban Environment Officer for UN-Habitat. He is out-posted to New York from the Urban Planning & Design Branch in Nairobi, where he lived and worked for five years. In New York he coordinates advocacy for urban component of the Post-2015 Development Agenda (including the the Sustainable Development Goals) and manages a portfolio of projects related to reducing urban sprawl and improving landscape connectivity. He was the... Read More →

Darren Walker is the 10th president of the Ford Foundation, the second largest philanthropy in the United States. For more than two decades Mr. Walker has been a leader in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors, leading local community and economic development initiatives in Harlem (1994-2001). He then led programs in human rights, urban development, and free expression, first as Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation and later as Vice... Read More →