Global Directors

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann

Secretary General, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Freiburg, Germany

Degrees:

• Engineering Diploma
  (Dipl.-Ing.) Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical University of Hannover, Germany.
• Magister Degree
  (Magister rerum publicarum) in Public Administration, University of Public Administration, Speyer, Germany.

Memberships:

• World Economic Forum´s Global Agenda Council on Urban Management
• Alumni of HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, Cambridge, UK
• Vereinigung für Stadt-, Regional- und Landesplanung e.V. (Association of Town and Regional Planners, Germany)
• Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht e.V. (Environmental Law Society, Germany)
• UVP-Gesellschaft e.V. (Environmental Impact Assessment Society, Germany)

Initiatives:

• Creator of brand “Ökologisches Bauen” (ecological building) in Germany 1982.
• Creator of the concept of Environmental Budgeting (ecoBUDGET) 1986.
• Creator of the concept and brand of “Umweltverbund” 1986 and Ecomobility 2007. Initiator of the Global Alliance for EcoMobility 2007.
• Several advisory functions such as board member of the International Green Purchasing Network and the International Centre for Sustainable Cities.
• Author, editor, or co-editor of 11 books and hundreds of articles in various magazines on local environmental planning & management and non-motorized urban transport.
• Lecturer at over 200 congresses, conferences, symposia and training sessions. Initiator and Scientific Director of congresses on sustainable cities, Local Agenda 21, local environmental management, environmental impact assessment, non-motorized urban transport and ecoprocurement.

David Cadman

City Councilor, Vancouver, BC Canada

David Cadman is the president of ICLEI, and the Deputy Mayor of Vancouver. David is a three-term Vancouver City Councillor, who was first elected in 2002, and re-elected in 2005 and 2008. He has served for six years as a Councillor with COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors. He represented Vancouver on the Greater Vancouver Regional District and Metro Vancouver board of directors, serving on both the Land Use and Transportation; and Environment and Energy committees.

A social and environmental activist for over 30 years, he has served as the President of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC). He has also served at the national and international level of the United Nations Association, and was awarded the United Nations Peace medal and United Nations 50th Anniversary medal.