This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, in collaboration and with the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies. Special thanks are extended to James Anderson, Head of the Government Innovation programs at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The policy dialogue and preparation of the report were co-ordinated by Sena Segbedzi, Co‑ordinator of the OECD Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth Initiative under the supervision of Aziza Akhmouch, Head of the Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, OECD. The report was drafted by a core OECD team composed of Oscar Huerta Melchor (main author), Natalia Altman, Laura Valdés, Vu Tran and Sam Whittlesey. Special thanks are herein conveyed to Soo-Jin Kim for her valuable comments during the drafting process, as well as to Marissa Plouin for her initial co-ordination and launch of the project, and Hyung‑Tae Kim and Stefan Norgaard for the design, extension and processing of the survey. Thanks are also conveyed to Marco Daglio, Debra Mountford and Oriana Romano (OECD) for their comments on earlier drafts.
The OECD Secretariat is grateful to Andrea Coleman, Kathleen Carlson, Stephanie Wade, Roland Persaud, Katie Appel Duda and Jon Barret from Bloomberg Philanthropies for their excellent support throughout this 18-month policy dialogue; their contributions to the design, outreach and analysis of the survey; and their valuable comments on the draft report.
The OECD Secretariat and Bloomberg Philanthropies are also grateful to the representatives from 89 cities (see Annex C) across the world for participating in the data collection exercise, the webinar discussion and the review of earlier versions of this report.
The report was approved by the OECD Regional Development Committee (RDPC) through written procedure on 4 October 2019 under the cote [CFE/RDPC/URB(2019)9]. It was edited and formatted by Jennifer Allain, and Pilar Philip and François Iglesias prepared the manuscript for publication.