Date: Wednesday 2 June 2010
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Marcelo Ebrard
Chair: Professor George Philip

Centrally involved in the shaping of Mexico City since the early 80's, Marcelo Ebrard has lead ambitious and innovative campaigns to face the city's challenges, in relation to public security and environmental sustainability. The lecture will address his government's developmental priorities, making a case for social equality as being at the core of its initiatives to enhance mobility, improve public transport, and restore public space. Social inclusion, it will argue, is a necessary first step for a sustainable future of one Latin America's largest megacities.

Marcelo Ebrard has been Mayor of Mexico City since 2006. He had previously held numerous posts in the city's government, including Secretary of Government, Secretary of Public Security and Secretary of Social Development.

George Philip is Professor in the Department of Government, LSE. He is an expert in Mexican economy and political system and has written extensively on politics, democracy and development in Latin America.

Cities are the magnets for more than half the world's population. The growing complexity of urban conditions requires new and innovative forms of governance. Mayors are increasingly called into debates about environmental and social sustainability, urban infrastructure and social inequality. "Running Cities" is an Urban Age public lecture series organised by LSE Cities that identifies the challenges and risks involved in governing today's exponential urbanism.

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