Urban Governance for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Bogotá
December 4, 2024 - 3:00 pm
Skylight Room
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Claudia López will explore how globalization, urbanization, and climate change impact city and regional governance, focusing on global trends and insights from Bogotá’s Metropolitan Region. It will delve into transportation challenges and innovations, highlighting the importance of multimodal mobility and the concept of 15-minute cities as sustainable and equitable urban solutions. Additionally, the discussion will highlight Bogotá’s globally recognized care system, showcasing its relevance to the care economy. Further, she will analyze decentralization processes, emphasizing their role in fostering effective governance and adaptive urban strategies. These topics will offer a comprehensive perspective on navigating urban governance in a rapidly changing world.
Claudia López served as Mayor of Bogotá from January 2020 until December 2023. As Bogotá’s first female and first openly LGBTQ+ Mayor, she had an emphatic focus on environmental, social and anti-corruption issues. López additionally served as a Senator of the Republic of Colombia between 2014 and 2018 and ran as vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. As a senator, she set an example in the fight against corruption, with results never seen before, and became a prominent figure in the political arena. The public recognizes her tenacity and enormous capacity for collective action, which led her to make her way into academia and public service, becoming the first woman to be elected by popular vote to Colombia’s second most important office. Claudia López is a finance and international relations graduate from Universidad Externado de Colombia; holds a master’s degree in public administration and urban policy from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. Currently is a Harvard ALI fellow.
Moderator
Enrique Desmond Arias is the Director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and a Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the Austin W. Marxe Professor of Western Hemisphere Affairs at Baruch College. Arias is the author of several influential books, including Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro. His research has been published in major journals like Comparative Politics and Political Geography, and has been supported by organizations such as the National Science Foundation. He has also served as a consultant for the United Nations and the Ford Foundation.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Research
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