Gordon Feller
Gordon Feller, CEO of Urban Age Institute, assists leaders seeking to implement smarter strategies to create more sustainable cities. Urban Age was founded, initially as a magazine, inside the World Bank -- and later spun off as an NGO. Urban Age brings together recognized innovators to help leaders inject innovative solutions into their urban projects, to design innovations that are scalable, and to create lasting partnerships for those projects.
For nearly 30 years, Feller’s been assisting leaders from...
national governments (Canada; Germany; Japan; etc)
mayors and governors (Lyon; Paris; Yokohama; Ohio; Oregon)
International agencies (UN; World Bank; ADB; WHO)
corporations (Citigroup; Chevron; Bechtel; WS Atkins)
city networks (Metropolis; CityNet)
In addition to building partnerships and undertaking project-related contracts, Urban Age projects have received funds from a wide variety of philanthropists and grant-makers, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation.
With Toyota he created and convenes the annual “Meeting of the Minds“.
While completing undergraduate and graduate degrees (both cum-laude) at Columbia University (NY), Feller received numerous fellowships and competitive international awards. Feller’s writing has appeared in more than 400 newspapers and magazines, in 12 languages and on all continents. His first book was published during his undergraduate years at Columbia. He edits Urban Age Magazine.
www.urbanage.org/magazine.php
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