Roberto Camagni		"Economic Functions of Global City-Regions and Public Costs"
		(Politecnico di Milano; former head of the Department of Urban Affairs; Presidency of Council of Ministers, Rome, Italy)

Tim Campbell		"Innovation and Governance Reforms in Large Cities in Latin America and the Carribean"
		Advisor in Urban Development Leader, Urban Partnership Transport, Water and Urban Development Department The World Bank

Thomas Courchene		"Responding to the NAFTA Challenge: Ontario as a North American Region State and Toronto as a Global City-Region"
		John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, Canada

Michael Douglass		"Globalization and the Asian Crisis: Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience"
		Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Susan Fainstein		"Inequality in Global City-Regions"
		Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University

John Friedmann		"Intercity Networks in a Global Age"
		Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

Sir Peter Hall		"Global City Regions in the 21st Century"
		Professor of Planning School of Planning, University College London, United Kingdom

Doug Henton		"An Innovation Region Takes its Next Step. Governance in the Global City-Region: Lessons from Silicon Valley"
		President, Collaborative Economics

James Holston		"Globalization and Urban Citizenship"
		Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Engin Isin		"Istanbul, Islamization and Globalization: Conflicting Paths to Citizenship"
		Faculty of Social and Political Sciences University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Associate Professor, Division of Social Science York University, Toronto, Canada

Michael Keating		"Governing Cities and Regions Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age"
		Professor of Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Won-Bae Kim		"Asian Economic Crisis and Repositioning of Mega-CIty Regions: The Case of the Seoul Mega-CIty Region"
		Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul, Korea

Alain Lipietz		"Social Bonds in the Stochastic City-Region"
		Spokesperson for the French Green Party Les Verts Paris, France

Mitchell Moss		"Telecommunications and Transportation Technologies in the Development of Global City-Regions"
		Taub Urban Research Center, New York University, New York

Kenichi Ohmae		"How Regions can Prosper from Globalization"
		President, Ohmae & Associates, Tokyo, Japan International Business Consultant and Author

Myron Orfield		"The Social, Fiscal and Political Diversity of U.S. Suburbs and the Potential for New Regional Policies and Politics"
		Minnesota House of Representatives, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Theodore Panayotou		"The Environmental Sustainability of Global City-Regions: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Options"
		Director, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University

Michael Porter		"The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions"
		Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Saskia Sassen		"The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier"
		Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Hubert Schmitz		"The Limitation of Private Local Governance: Lesson from a Brazilian Cluster"
		Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward J. Soja, Michael Storper		Global City-Regions
		University of California, Los Angeles

Richard Stren		"Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions"
		Director, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Roger Waldinger		"The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions. Concept, Patterns, Controversy"
		Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

The proceedings of this conference will be published in book form by Oxford University Press.