The Task Force is made up of 13 core members and nine ex-officio members.
Co-Chairs
Dereje Fekadu, Special Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office, Addis Ababa City Administration
Philipp Rode, Executive Director, LSE Cities/Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Cross-cutting theme
Wakuma Abede, Commissioner, Plan and Development Commission, Addis Ababa City Government, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jagan Shah, Senior Infrastructure Adviser, Department for International Development (DFID), British High Commission, New Delhi, India
Jennifer Semakula-Musisi, City Leader in Residence, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge MA, USA
Michael von der Muehlen, former State Secretary and Participant of International Building Exhibition (IBA) “Emscher Park”, Dortmund, Germany
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director, LSE Cities/Urban Age, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Marc Steinlin, Managing Partner, IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge Consultants, London, UK
Housing and urban intensification
Elias Yitbarek Alemayehu, Architect and Associate Professor, EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Kecia Rust, Executive Director and Founder, Centre for Affordable Housing Finance, Johannesburg, South Africa
Timnit Eshetu, CEO, Construction Enterprise, Addis Ababa City Government, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Brett Herron, former Member of the Mayoral Committee: Transport & Urban Development, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Accessibility and streets
Elleni Ashebir, Cities and Urban Mobility Program Manager, Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities, WRI Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Clarisse Linke, Country Director Brazil, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Semere Jelalu Shafi, Deputy General Director, Addis Ababa City Traffic Management Agency, Addis Ababa City Government, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Green and blue infrastructure
Hailu Worku Bedane, Chair of Environmental Planning and Landscape Design and Deputy Scientific Director of EiABC, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands
Zeleke Teferi, Water Resource and Quality Specialist, Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority, Addis Ababa City Government, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Cecilia Vaca Jones, Programme Director, Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands
Olusola Ikuforiji, Environmental Specialist, African Development Bank, Abidjan
Partner members
Elisabeth Mansfeld, Head of Cities Project Area, Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Lena Weiler, Senior Urban Development Adviser, Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Eschborn, Germany