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Greece (Chair)
Chile (Vice-Chair)
Korea (Vice-Chair)
OECD
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui
Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities
Regional Development Policy Committee
RDPC Chair
Flavia Terribile
Chair, Regional Development Policy Committee
Senior Advisor
Presidency of Italy’s Council of Ministers
Heads of delegation
Australia
Austria
Georg Schadt
Director
Directorate for Coordination of Regional Policy and Spatial Planing
Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism
Argentina
Marina Klemensiewicz
Secretary of Urban Infrastructure
Ministry of Home Affairs, Public Works and Housing
Bulgaria
Canada
James Meddings
Deputy Minister and President, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Colombia
Victor Javier Saavedra Mercado
Deputy Minister of Housing
Ministry of Housing, City and Territory
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
Marja-Ritta Pihlman
Director, Regions and Growth Services
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
France
Germany
Gisela Hohensee
Deputy Director-General
European Policies
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Fumihiko Yuki
Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Hokkaido Development
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Kazakhstan
Dauren Zhambaibek
Director of the Department of Regional Development
Ministry of National Economy
Latvia
Rinalds Muciņš
State Secretary
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
Lithuania
Morocco
Abdelahad Fassi-Fehri
Minister of National Spatial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and City Policy
Netherlands
Chris Kuijpers
DG for Governance, Spatial Planning and Housing
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Alin-Virgil Chirilă
State Secretary for European Affairs
Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration
Slovak Republic
Patrik Krauspe
Head of the Office Bureau
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization
Slovenia
Peter Wostner
Secretary
Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy
Biography
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Eric Jakob
Ambassador and Head of the Directorate of Economic Promotion
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Stephen Jones
Director of the Cities and Local Growth Unit
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
European Commission
Business at OECD
CoR
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