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National Arts Centre, Ottawa | December 5-6

Who's Stepping Up at the

2nd Annual State of Canada's Cities Summit?

The world is changing, fast.

Canada is facing an infrastructure deficit that threatens our global competitive advantage and the quality of our places and lives.

Infrastructure - from main streets to housing, technology to public space - underpins all of our lives. Canada needs serious infrastructure investments to connect supply chains and efficiently move goods and services; connect people, cultures, and households across the country, and equip communities to prepare for rapid changes hastened by climate, technology, and global migration.

Join city builders from coast to coast to coast, coming together at the preeminent urban event to highlight how #infrastructurematters and what governments, business, civil society and community leaders must do to Step Up.

Stay tuned for regular speaker updates.

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Get A Sneak Peak at the

State of Canada's Cities Summit Speakers

Infrastructure matters for

Vibrant Communities

Tracy Hadden Loh

Fellow | Centre for Transformative Placemaking

Washington, DC

Tracy Hadden Loh is a Fellow with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at Brookings Metro, where she integrates her interests in commercial real estate, infrastructure, racial justice, and governance. She serves on the boards of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Greater Greater Washington, and District Bridges. She also previously served two years on the city council of Mount Rainier, a small town in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Infrastructure matters for

Culture and Place

Monique Simard

Board Chairwoman | Quartier des spectacles

Montreal, QC

Chairwoman of the Board and official Ambassador of the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles, Monique Simard embodies versatility and deep commitment to social, political and cultural causes. During her exceptional career, she distinguished herself as first vice-president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux. A convinced feminist, she worked for equal pay, maternity leave and abortion rights. She has also distinguished herself as a director of numerous cultural organizations, a documentary producer, director of the National Film Board's French Program and the first woman president of SODEC.

Infrastructure matters for

Public Health

Eileen de Villa

Medical Officer of Health | City of Toronto

Toronto, ON

Dr. Eileen de Villa is the Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto. Since 2017, she has led Toronto Public Health, the largest local public health agency in Canada, which protects and promotes the health of the city's more than three million residents. Holding a Doctor of Medicine and an MHSc in Health Promotion from the University of Toronto, alongside an MBA from York University's Schulich School of Business, Dr. de Villa is an Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. de Villa has been at the forefront of public health efforts in Toronto, including guiding the largest vaccination campaign in Toronto's history during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Infrastructure matters for

Real Property

Alain Resplandy-Bernard

CEO | State Real Estate Directorate of France

Paris, FR

A magistrate at the Court of Auditors since graduating from the National School of Administration in 1998, Alain Resplandy-Bernard also served for three years as auditor of the UN and UNICEF in New York. On his return to France, he was appointed adviser to the Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin and then Dominique de Villepin), in charge of sports, tourism and housing. He then took up a position as Deputy Director General of the CNRS, the main research organization in France, where he oversaw finance, human resources, information systems and real estate. He was appointed Director at the State Real Estate Department in February 2020 where he is pioneering change in the workplace.

Infrastructure matters for

Affordable Cities

Karen Chapple

Director | School of Cities at the University of Toronto

Toronto, ON

Karen Chapple, Ph.D., is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on economic development and housing.

Infrastructure matters for

Circular Economies

Fanny Tremblay-Racicot

Adjunct Professor | Université Laval

Laval, QC

Fanny Tremblay-Racicot is a tenured professor in municipal and regional administration at the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP) and co-director of the Centre de recherche sur la gouvernance (CERGO). Her research program focuses on institutional reforms, public policy instruments, and management strategies to achieve sustainable urban development goals. With numerous publications on transportation and land use governance, her current research projects delve into the analysis of territorial policies for circular economy, the affordability of transit-oriented developments, and the use of new municipal fiscal powers by Quebec municipalities.

Infrastructure matters for

Smart Investments

Steve Robins

Head of Strategy | Canadian Infrastructure Bank

Toronto, ON

Steven Robins has been the Head of Strategy at the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) since December 2020. In this capacity, Steven leads the strategy team and is responsible for impact measurement, our Investment Framework, our overall portfolio strategy and the identification of new opportunities to achieve the CIB’s priority outcomes. Before joining the CIB, Steven was the Commercial Program Director for the Ontario Subway expansion at Infrastructure Ontario, where he stood up the commercial team to structure and deliver four planned subway extensions in Toronto and led the team to commence procurements on-schedule.

Infrastructure matters for

Just Societies

Sarah Rosen-Wartell

President | Urban Institute

Washington, DC

Sarah Rosen Wartell is the President of the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to accelerate solutions and advance upward mobility and equity, where she has served as president since 2012. Prior to the Urban Institute, she was the deputy director of the National Economic Council at the White House and the founding chief operating officer for the Center for American Progress. A lawyer, earlier in government, she worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

Infrastructure matters for

Social Innovation

Andrea Barrack

Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship & ESG | RBC

Toronto, ON

As Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship & ESG, Andrea Barrack is responsible for RBC’s ESG strategy, including performance management, reporting, and scaling knowledge and insights across the enterprise. Andrea is also responsible for RBC’s global Citizenship strategy and serves as the Executive Director of the RBC Foundation, one of Canada’s largest corporate donors. Her mandate includes delivery of measurable social, employee, brand and business impact through community investments.