The Forum of Mayors will bring together city leaders from Europe, North America and Central Asia to address the most pressing challenges of our time, including pandemics, climate change and natural hazards. The 2020 Forum will focus on “City action for a resilient future” and will take place on 6 October 2020 as a hybrid meeting, with participants at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, and connected online.

Names and Titles of Speakers:

Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, UNECE;Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations at Geneva;
Sami Kanaan, Mayor of Geneva, Switzerland;
Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, Italy;Erion Veliaj, Mayor of Tirana, Albania;
Hayk Marutyan, Mayor of Yerevan, Armenia;
Abdulah Skaka, Mayor of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Zdeněk Hřib, Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic;
Lisa Helps, Mayor of Victoria, Canada;Jan Vapaavouri, Mayor of Helsinki, Finland;
Martin Horn, Mayor of Freiburg, Germany;
Kostas Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens, Greece;
Gergely Karácsony, Mayor of Budapest, Hungary;
Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavík, Iceland;
Hazel Chu, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland;
Remigijus Šimašius, Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania;
Peter Danielsson, Mayor of Helsingborg, Sweden;
Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, USA;
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine;
Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, United Kingdom