Before his election as Mayor of Porto Novo, In 2019, following the constitutional revision, he joined the party UNION PROGRESSISTE as a founding member. He is also a member of the campaign leadership of the 19th district in charge of external r

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 6

Feb 1st, 2021 23m 29s

Mauricio Vila Dosal is the governor-elect of Yucatan. He ran as the PAN-MC coalition candidate. He served as mayor of Mérida from 2015 to January 2018, when he stepped down to enter the gubernatorial race. He has a law degree from the Universid

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 5

Jan 1st, 2021 36m 3s

Member of Parliament for Malaga (UCD), between 1977 and 1982, and Senator for Malaga (PP), between 2011 and 2014. Francisco de la Torre was President of the Provincial Council of Malaga and Minister of Economy, Finance and Tourism of the first

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 4

Dec 1st, 2020 22m 51s

Mr. José Maria Amado da Fonseca is Mayor of the District of Água Grande, whose capital São Tomé is also the national capital. He was State Secretary for Infrastructure and Environment of the 15th Government of São Tomé; Administrative and Finan

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 3

Nov 1st, 2020 1h 5m

Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, Mayor of the City of Kumasi, is a prominent entrepreneur, a professional Administrator with more than 20 years of senior management experience, an accomplished politician and an experienced international business leader

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 2

Oct 1st, 2020 38m 5s

Yvonne Aki Sawyer is a finance professional with over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, risk management and project management in the public and private sectors. Yvonne is passionate about the development of Sierra Leone. She is a C

Capital LoCAST S2 Episode 1

Sep 1st, 2020 25m 17s

In this Episode Mohammed Sifiani is speaking about the impact of COVID-19 on the City of Chefchaouen in Morrocco.The pandemic strongly impacted the economy of the city which had to find creative ways to generate income.Chefchaouen vision is to

Capital Locast - Episode 10

Apr 27th, 2020 51m 30s

Emilia Saiz – Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments – World Secretariat. UCLG is the world’s leading local government body and its members represent over 200,000 local governments worldwide. Emilia is a leading global advocat

Capital Locast - Episode 9

Apr 20th, 2020 31m 51s

Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi – Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments – Africa. The future is already here – the scale and speed of African urbanization is striking. It is a phenomenon taking place so fast that conceptions of rura

Capital Locast - Episode 8

Apr 13th, 2020 44m 16s

Brock Carlton – Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Brock believes that “Cities and towns build nations; they just need the power.” Under Brock’s leadership the FCM has become a major factor in Canada’s develop

Why Local Government Finance is Essential to the COVID-19 Response

Apr 8th, 2020 1h 56m

Local governments have been on the frontlines when it comes to the COVID-19 response, in large part because of their competencies--citizen engagement, management of public space and service delivery. But for local governments in the world's lea

Capital Locast - Episode 7

Apr 6th, 2020 22m 37s

Honourable Lamin B. Dibba is the Minister of Environment, Climate change & Natural Resources for the Gambia since January 2017. The Minister oversees the line Departments of Forestry, Parks & Wildlife Management and the National Environment Age

Capital Locast - Episode 6

Mar 31st, 2020 1h 12m

Jesper Steffensen – Senior Partner of DEGE Consult and a leading expert on fiscal transfers from central to local governments and author of the Performance Based Grants, Best Practice and International Experience, 2010, with involvement in LG f

Capital Locast - Episode 5

Mar 23rd, 2020 34m 6s

Francis Zinsou – Former Permanent Representative of Benin to the United Nations and former negotiator on behalf of the (then) 49 Least Developed Countries at the 2015 Financing for Development conference which produced the Addis Ababa Action Ag

Capital Locast - Episode 4

Mar 16th, 2020 38m

Rajivan Krishnaswamy – Former CEO of the Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund in India and former Senior Urban Finance Specialist at the World Bank. Rajivan tells us that the form of the financing shapes the form of the city and stresses the impo

Capital Locast - Episode 3

Mar 9th, 2020 21m 17s

John Tomaney – Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College of London, co-author of Local and Regional Development, 2017 – a global authority on the subject. Professor Tomaney has provided expe

Capital Locast - Episode 2

Mar 2nd, 2020 28m 16s

Gillian Tett – US Managing Editor and member of Editorial Board at the Financial Times, author of Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, 2009 about the highly leveraged finan

Capital Locast - Episode 1

Feb 24th, 2020 20m 9s

Raghuram Rajan – former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and currently Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Rajan is author of The Thir

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