Professor Greg Clark, formand for Connected Places Catapult, taler med Steve Randall om kulstoffri byer og byomstillingen.

Prof. Greg Clark er formand for Forbundne steder Katapult og UK Cities Climate Investment Commission

Greg is a world expert on cities, urban investment, and bæredygtig byomstilling. I løbet af en karriere på 35 år har han rådgivet mere end 300 byer, 40 nationale regeringer, 20 multilaterale institutioner og adskillige globale virksomheder og investorer.

Greg er formand for Connected Places Catapult (CPC), Storbritanniens innovationsaccelerator for byer, transport og stedslederskab, og formand for UK Cities Climate Investment Commission (UKCCIC), der indkalder byledere og investorer til at drive en retfærdig byomstilling.

Han er bestyrelsesmedlem i Transport for London (TfL) og London LEP. Han er formand for TfL's nye jord- og ejendomsudvalg, der fører tilsyn med TfL's nye ejendoms- og boligselskab og ventures.

Greg is Honorary Professor of Urban innovation at Strathclyde University. He is author of ten bøger and 100 reports on cities, investment and place-leadership. His monthly column: The Planet of Cities, is hosted by RICS. He is Global Cities expert on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City.

Gregs tidligere roller inkluderer Group Advisor, Future Cities & New Industries, hos HSBC, formand for OECD Forum of Cities & Regions, Global Fellow on Cities ved Brookings Institution og Global Fellow on Urban Investment ved Urban land Institute. Han var Lead Advisor on Cities for den britiske regering i 6 år.

He has been a senior advisor on cities to the World Bank, Inter-American development Bank, and the European Investment Bank. He has chaired more than 20 internal advisory boards for individual cities that are reformulating their strategies, plans, and governance including New York, Mumbai, Sap Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Auckland, Barcelona, Vienna, and Oslo.

..”50 % af det kulstof, vi skal tage ud af vores byer, er indlejret i vores bygget miljø".