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DESCRIPTION:Cities are on the front line of climate adaptation and are ofte
 n forced to step up among a vacuum of multilateral and national level lead
 ership. This vacuum is particularly stark in countries of the emerging wor
 ld\, within contexts of autocracy\, extreme inequality\, and geopolitical 
 tensions. From flooding streets to overtaxed energy grids\, from rooftop f
 arms to real-time urban dashboards\, city leaders are navigating an era th
 at demands both bold vision and rigorous execution for transformational ur
 ban climate initiatives.\n\n \n\nThis session brings together three leader
 s who are reshaping how cities respond to climate through the circular eco
 nomy\, design\, and data. They represent a rare convergence of a fashion i
 ndustry leader building a circular economy for textile waste within a majo
 r African city\, a landscape architect redesigning Southeast Asia's urban 
 fabric to absorb and adapt to extreme weather\, and an urban informatics l
 eader building the data systems that help governments make smarter\, faste
 r decisions.\n\nThis conversation will explore what it takes to lead on th
 e frontlines of climate change\, build political will\, navigate instituti
 onal resistance\, earn community trust\, and make decisions under uncertai
 nty. It will center the human choices\, risks\, and tradeoffs behind the w
 ork.\n\n \n\nFeatured Speakers\n\n \n\nOmoyemi Akerele — 2025 Yale Clima
 te Fellow\, Founder and CEO\, Lagos Fashion Week and Style House Files\; p
 artner to the city of Lagos on textile-waste recycling and circular econom
 y\; 2025 Earthshot Prize winner\; TIME 100 Climate\n\n \n\nKotchakorn Vora
 akhom — 2026 Yale World Fellow\, Founder\, LANDPROCESS and the Porous Ci
 ty Network\; creator of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn Centenary Park and Asia's 
 largest rooftop farm\; UN Climate Action Award recipient\; TIME 100 Next\;
  TED Fellow\; Harvard GSD\n\n \n\nRoy Yu-Ta Lin — 2026 Yale World Fellow
 \, Head of Urban Informatics\, City Science Lab @ Taipei Tech (MIT–NTUT)
 \; former Director of Data Analytics\, Taipei Urban Intelligence Center\; 
 Harvard GSD\n\n \n\n \n\nModerated by: Yuval Ben-David\, Chief Strategy Of
 ficer\, Yale International Leadership Center\n\n \n\nThe Yale Internationa
 l Leadership Center (ILC) develops and supports innovative\, effective\, a
 nd adaptive leaders to address the most acute and complex challenges facin
 g the world. This event is part of ILC's ongoing commitment to convening p
 ractitioners whose work sits at the intersection of leadership\, sustainab
 ility\, and civic life.
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LOCATION:Yale Club of NYC\, Rooftop Room
SUMMARY:Cities on the Front Line: Leadership\, Design\, and Data in the Cli
 mate Era | ILC at Yale @ Climate Week NYC
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.jackson.yale.edu/event/cities-on-the-front-lin
 e-leadership-design-and-data-in-the-climate-era-ilc-at-yale-climate-week-n
 yc
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussions
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