The Faculty of Architecture at the Poznan University of Technology and the City of Poznań invite you to an open lecture delivered by Prof Marc A. Weiss, titled " Sustainable Innovation Zones: Leading the Path to Sustainable Innovation and Inclusive Prosperity ". The lecture will be held on 26 May 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in the PUT Architecture building,room no. 001.
Dr. Marc A. Weiss is Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (GUD), a nonprofit international policy organization and professional network of more than 700 leaders and experts in 60 countries. Since 2015 he has been coordinating the Porto Alegre Sustainable Innovation Zone (ZISPOA), a key initiative of GUD's World Bank-funded Leapfrog Economic Strategy for Brazil's State of Rio Grande do Sul to become the most sustainable and innovative place in Latin America by 2030. He also served as an International Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, where he coordinated the campus-wide ZISPOA Project in the Engineering School, the ZISProf faculty leadership group, and the interdisciplinary graduate Sustainable Innovation Professional (SIP) Program. He also serves as a Lead Partner of UN-Habitat's World Urban Campaign (WUC), coordinating several recent GUD/UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campuses in Porto Alegre and New York City, and a similar event at Dubai Expo.
He has been an adviser on Metropolitan Economic Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, and Inclusive Prosperity for cities, counties, regions, states, and provinces throughout the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UAE, UK, US, and the Virgin Islands. He worked with the Brazil and US Governments, the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), and the Organization of American States (OAS) to organize an international conference in Curitiba, Brazil during June 7-8, 2011 on "Planning for Sustainable Economic Development Across the Americas.
He previously served as: Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Public Policy Scholar and Editor of Global Outlook at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Fellow for Community Studies at the Center for National Policy; Coordinator of the 1998 Strategic Economic Development Plan for Washington, DC and Chairman of the NoMa Metro Station Corporation; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and HUD Liaison to the President's Council on Sustainable Development in the Clinton-Gore Administration; Senior Adviser and Spokesman on Housing and Urban Policy for the 1991-92 Clinton Presidential Campaign; Associate Professor and Director of the Real Estate Development Research Center and Acting Director of the PhD Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University; Lincoln Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Deputy Director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation; and Information Officer for the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals.
He is the author or co-author of many books, articles, and reports, including a widely acclaimed book on urban development and planning, The Rise of the Community Builders, published by Columbia University Press, and a best-selling international university textbook, Real Estate Development Principles and Process, published by the Urban Land Institute.
He also has taught at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Los Angeles; University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Irvine; George Washington University, University of Illinois Chicago, and University of Rhode Island.
Dr. Weiss earned a PhD and MCP in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA with Honors in Political Science from Stanford University, plus he attended the London School of Economics (LSE) in the UK.
He is a US Army veteran and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.