Greg Clark Keynote Speaker

Prof Greg Clark CBE FAcSS is author of 10 books and 100 reports on cities, investment, and place-leadership. He is co-host of two podcasts, The Century of Cities and The DNA of Cities, and co-founder of the Urban Analytics Group, The Business of Cities. His column, The Planet of Cities, is hosted by RICS, and he is Global Cities expert on the BBC World Service Series, My Perfect City.

He has chaired more than 20 international advisory boards for individual cities that are reformulating their future investment strategies, long term plans, and governance, including Barcelona, New York, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Barcelona, Vienna, Turin, and Oslo. He has led comparative studies on Chinese, Canadian, Australian, European, North American, Latin American, Middle Eastern, South-East Asian, Caribbean, Nordic, and Indian, Cities.

Globally, Clark’s previous roles include Group Advisor, Future Cities & New Industries at HSBC (2018–2022), Chair of the OECD Forum of Cities & Regions (1996–2016), Global Fellow on Cities at the Brookings Institution (2008–2018) and Global Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (2006–2018). He was a Senior Advisor on urban investment at the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Investment Bank. Member of the WEF Future Council on Cities & Urbanisation, Bloomberg Coalition on Dynamic Cities, and Senior Advisor to The Bay Awards for urban innovation.

He has multiple awards for his work including a CBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, The Freedom of the City of London, Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences, Fellowships from the Brookings Institution and Urban Land Institute, honorary ambassadorship from Brisbane, and the John Shields Prize from Barcelona.