Who's who

Chair

Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz

Minister for Development Funds and Regional Policy

Vice Chairs

Hirofumi Amakawa

Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Hokkaido Development Affairs

Kjersti Stenseng

Minister of Local Government and Regional Development

Heads of Delegations Countries

Jacinta McDonald

Assistant Secretary for Regional Policy

Roland Arbter

Deputy Director, Directorate Coordination Regional Policy and Spatial Planning

Daniel Fortunato

National Secretary of Regional and Territorial Development Policies

Ivan Ivanov

Minister of Regional Development and Public Works

Daryell Nowlan

Vice-President Policy, Programs and Communications

Francisca Perales

Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development

Assad Jater

Ambassador of Colombia to Poland

Marta Esquivel

Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy of Costa Rica

Domagoj Mikulić

State Secretary - Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds

Petr Kulhánek

Minister of Regional Development

Hendrik Johannes Terras

Minister of Regional Affairs and Agriculture

Themis Christophidou

Director-General for Regional and Urban Policy

Tiina Korhonen

Director General, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

François Rebsamen

Ministre de l’Aménagement du territoire et de la Décentralisation

Elga Bartsch

Director General for Economic Policy

Nikos Papathanasis

Alternate Minister of Economy and Finance

Zoltán Polyánszky

Deputy State Secretary for the Implementation of Regional Development

Hanna Dora Holm Masdottir

Director of International Relations for Regional and Local Government Affairs

Febrian Alphyanto Ruddyard

Vice Minister

John Cummins

Minister of State for Local Government and Planning

Moshe Arbel

Minister of Interior

Angela Guerrieri

Vice Head of Cabinet

Sangwoo Park

Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Inga Bērziņa

Minister for Smart Administration and Regional Development

Vladislav Kondratovič

Minister of the Interior

Thiemo Wilhelm Eser

Head of Division, International Affairs and European Territorial Cooperation

Vladimir Bolea

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development

Youssef Hosni

Secrétaire Général

Marianne Van den Berg

Head of Domestic Government Defrayment

Juan Haro Muñoz

Vice Minister of Territorial Governance

Jan Szyszko

Deputy Minister

Manuel Castro Almeida

Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister and of Territorial Cohesion

Orsolya Kövér

State Secretary to Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration

Richard Maraček

State Secretary

Slovak Republic

Aleksander Jevšek

Minister for Cohesion and Regional Development

Alfonso Carlos Garcia Romero

Deputy Director for European and International Relations

Daniel Liljeberg

State Secretary to Minister for Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren

Martin Saladin

Assistant State Secretary and Head of the Economic Promotion Directorate

Sabeeda Thaised

Deputy Minister of Interior

Mehmet Fatih Kacir

Minister of Industry and Technology

Oleksii Kuleba

Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration - Minister for Development of Communities and Territories

Jim McMahon

Minister for Local Government and English Devolution

International Organisations
Institutional Stakeholders and Experts

Hanni Rosenbaum

Executive Director

Business at OECD (BIAC)

Kata Tüttő

President

Comittee of Regions of the EU (CoR)

Marc Cools

President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities

Council of Europe (CoE)

Beata Javorcik

Chief Economist

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Kyriacos Kakouris

Vice President

European Investment Bank (EIB)

Tatiana Gallego Lizon

Chief of Housing and Urban Development Division Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Emilia Saiz

Secretary General

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Dyfed Aubrey

Chief of Office for the European Union

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Ary Naïm

Head of Country Representation for Poland

OECD Regional Development Policy Committee

Dennis Alvord

Chair, Regional Development Policy Committee

OECD

Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General

Yoshiki Takeuchi

Deputy Secretary-General

Lamia Kamal Chaoui

Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

Nadim Ahmad

Deputy Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities