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              The WELL City Advisory empowers cities to create safer, healthier spaces and to navigate a healthy, equitable recovery from COVID-19.

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              IWBI Advisory Lead

              Jason Hartke, Ph.D.

              Jason Hartke is the Executive Vice President of External Affairs at the International WELL Building Institute where he leads advocacy and policy efforts as well as the organization’s strategic communications.

              In addition to his background and work in communications, he has nearly two decades of experience working with policymakers at all levels of government in areas of health, sustainability and resilience.

              Get to know the Advisory chairs

              The advisory will be led by a group of distinguished co-chairs representing diverse backgrounds. Learn more about them in our press release here.

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                Lisa Bate
                Vice Chair, Foundation for Architectural Research; Director, CarbonCure
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                Mayor David D. Ortega
                Mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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                Lucia Athens
                Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Austin
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                Yin Zhi
                Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
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                Arron Wood
                Director, External Affairs, Clean Energy Council; former Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne
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                Susan Wiggins
                Executive Director, Executive Director, Ontario Professional Planners Institute
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                Haishan Wang
                Chief Expert and Chairman, Chief Expert and Chairman of Zhong Jian Xie Certification Centre Co., LTD in China
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                Sandy Verschoor
                The Right Honourable Lord Mayor, the Right Honourable Lord Mayor, City of Adelaide
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                Nathaniel Smith
                Founder & Chief Equity Officer, (CEqO), Partnership for Southern Equity
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                Malcolm Smith
                Australasian Cities Leader, ARUP
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                Daohong Shi
                Partner and Executive Director Future Technology and Art (FTA), Founder of TOP Research Institute, China
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                Lotte Schlegel
                Executive Director, Institute of Market Transformation
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                Brooks Rainwater
                Senior Executive and Director of City Solutions, National League of Cities, United States
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                Khee Poh Lam, PhD
                Provost’s Chair Professor of Architecture and Built Environment, National University of Singapore
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                Abbie Galvin, LFRAIA
                Government Architect, New South Wales
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                Karen Freeman-Wilson
                President & Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Urban League, former Mayor of Gary, Indiana
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                Cheming Chiang, PhD
                Distinguished Professor, Cheng Kung University
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                Martin Chavez
                Infrastructure Advisor for the State of New Mexico and former Mayor of Albuquerque
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                Dr. Richard Carmona
                17th Surgeon General of the United States
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                Stephen Benjamin
                Former Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina

              Meet the Advisors

              WELL City Advisors work with city leaders to identify and scale strategies that can help advance health and well-being across their buildings, organizations and communities, recognizing the critical role local government leaders can play in protecting and enhancing human health.
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                Chika Igwe
                Director, Architecture & Development, CIA+D
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                Adam Benoit
                Director, Property Management, Stream Realty
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                Alicia Regodon
                Sustainable Housing Expert, UN-Habitat
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                Andrew Snowhite
                Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Snowhite Strategies, USA
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                Anne Kovachevich
                Sustainable Buildings and Precincts Lead (QLD and NSW), Mott MacDonald
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                Anoop Vijayan
                Head of Sustainability, Binghatti Developers UAE, UAE
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                Barak Alberro Letemendia
                Associate Director, Gardiner & Theobald Inc., USA
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                Braden Kay
                Sustainability Director, City of Tempe (AZ), USA
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                Charalampos Giannikopoulos
                Managing Director, DCarbon, Greece
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                Colin Wellenkamp
                Executive Director
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                Deepa Vedavyas
                Program Manager, Neighborhoods and Environment
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                Dhwani Talati-Padiyar
                Senior Associate Director / National lead Design Advisory and Management
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                Elinor Huggett
                Associate, Senior Environmental Designer
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                Gregory Maltsev
                Head of Research
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                Hao Li
                Lab Technician, Shenzhen University, China
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                Jagannathan Mohan
                Consulting Engineer & Commercial Realtor
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                Lingyue Anne Chen
                Associate, Senior Urban Designer
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                Dominique Silva
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                Carrie Salone
                CEO President
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                Abby Camacho
                Senior Project Manager, Interiors, AIA, IIDA, NCARB
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                Angie Pajak
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                David Barker
                National Sustainability Leader
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                Dr. Christine Bruckner FAIA
                Director, M Moser
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                Yi Chun Huang
                Climate action and sustainability practice
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                Li Huang, Ph.D.
                Director of Industry and Finance, Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization
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                Farah Naz
                Lead Specialist Services, ESG and Sustainable Solutions
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                Jessica Bennett
                Associate, Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
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                Joanne Andrade
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                Jon White
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                Kevin Smith
                Head of Healthcare UK
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                Lindsey Malcolm
                Associate Director, Head of Sustainability Middle East
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                Design Coordinator and Green Building Director
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                Mohammad Hidayath Ghazi
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                Muhammad Shoaib
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                Sakthivel Eakambaranathan
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                Simon Toovey
                Executive Director, Marlborough Capital
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                Sylvester Wong
                Vice President, Asia Cities, Resilience, Innovation, ESG
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                Thomas Kraubitz
                Director Cities and Head of Sustainability Europe
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                William Bridge
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                Xiangyi Li, Ph.D.
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                Buildings Performance and Wellness Lead
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                Lisa Hinde
                Head of Sustainability
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                Janet Liff
                Chair of the Board of Transportation Alternatives; Principal of J Liff Co.; Director at Streetspac
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                Matthew Britt
                General Manager, Sustainable Cities
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                Qun He
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                Hanane Tirich
                Architect (freelance)
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                Lei Yuan
                Director of the Academic Affairs Office
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