Since 2014, Dr. Gora Mboup has been the President and CEO of
GORA Corp. He has more than 25 years of international development
experience, including ten years as a Coordinator of the Demographic
and Health Surveys (DHS) funded by United States Agency for
International Development (USAID). He joined the UN-Habitat in 2004
as a Senior Demographer and Head of the Global Urban Observatory
(GUO). In June 2014, the UN-Habitat honored him with a plaque "in
recognition of ten years of distinguished and dedicated service to
the United Nations". Dr. Mboup co-authored the book "Smart Economy
in Smart Cities" and the book "Smart Metropolitan Regional
Development: Economic and Spatial Design Strategies" published in
2017 and 2018 by Springer respectively. During his tenure with
UN-Habitat, Dr. Mboup authored the book "Street as Public Spaces
and Drivers of Urban Prosperity" in 2013 and four series of the
State of World Cities: 1) SWCR 2012/13 - Prosperity of Cities; 2)
SWCR 2010/11 - Bridging the Urban Divide; 3) SWCR 2008/09 -
Harmonious Cities; 4) SWCR 2006/07 -Thirty years of the Habitat
Agenda. Dr. Mboup also contributed to the book "Urban Planet -
Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities" published in 2018 by
Cambridge University Press with the chapter 39 "The digital
urbanization and the end of big cities". Dr. Mboup is an
international consultant on smart cities, sustainable urban
development and smart mobility with the World Bank, UN-Habitat,
UNECA, African Union, national governments and local authorities.
He is also a Senior Fellow of the Global City Institute (GCI) of
the University of Toronto and provides public lectures in several
universities such as London School of Economics (UK), Columbia
University (USA), University of Twente (ITC, The Netherlands) and
Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden).
Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka is the former Director of the
UN-Habitat's Regional Office for Africa and former Director of its
Monitoring and Research Division and Senior Scientific Advisor to
the Executive Director. Prior to joining the UN-Habitat, Prof.
Oyeyinka was a Professor and remains a professorial fellow at the
United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research
Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) until December
2006. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Open University, UK.
He worked with the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) as a Senior Economic Affairs Officer and
coordinating the 10-year review of the least developed countries
(LDCs). Prior to that he was a Professor at the Nigerian Institute
of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor
Oyeyinka obtained his D.Phil. in Technology Policy and
Industrialization from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU),
University of Sussex, Masters in Engineering from the University of
Toronto after a First Class (Honours) degree from the University of
Ife, Nigeria. He has done considerable work on information and
communication technologies (ICTs) and small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) and clusters within the systems of innovation framework. He
is an author as well as a joint-author to several books, the most
recent being "Structural Transformation and Economic Development:
Cross-regional analysis of Urbanization and Industrialization"; UK:
Routledge, 2016.
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