Speeches
Opening Session
- Mr. Charles Kelly, Commissioner General of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum, Government of Canada
- Mr. Sam Sullivan, Mayor, City of Vancouver, Canada
- Mr. Gordon Campbell, Premier of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, and former Mayor of the City of Vancouver
- Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Ms. Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
- Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
- Mr. Noli de Castro, Vice-President of the Philippines and Chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council
- Mr. Ali Mohamed Shein, Vice-President of the United Republic of Tanzania
- Ms. María Antonia Trujillo, Minister of Housing, Government of Spain and Chair of the Second Session of the World Urban Forum (speech in Spanish)
- Ms. Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Government of Canada, Chair of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum.
- Mr. Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government of the United States of America
- Ms. Kumari Selja, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Government of India
- Mr. Naokazu Takemoto, Secretary-General of the Japan Parliamentarians on Habitat and Deputy Chairman of the Asia Regional Forum of the Global Parliamentarians on Habitat
- Mr. Enrique Ortiz, Secretary General, Habitat International Coalition
Plenary Sessions
Social Inclusion and Cohesion
- Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Government of the United States of America
- Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Housing, Government of South Africa
Partnership and Finance
- Katherine Sierra, Vice President and Network Head, Infrastructure, World Bank, USA
- Mohammad Yousaf Pashtun, Minister of Urban Development, Government of Afghanistan
Urban Growth and Environment
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Chris Leach, President, Canadian Institute of Planners, Canada
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Enrique Peņalosa, Visiting Scholar, New York University, USA ; former Mayor, City of Bogotá, Columbia
Special Sessions
First UN-HABITAT Lecture Award - The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-Based Development of Urbanizing Regions
- John Friedmann, Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada
Water, Sanitation and Human Settlements
- Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
From Vancouver to Nanjing
- Fu Ping, Assistant President, Shanghai Land Development Group, China (speech in Chinese)
Future of Cities
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Inga Björk-Klevby, Assistant Secretary General, United Nations; Deputy Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
- Xuemei Bai, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
- Kalpana Sharma, Mumbai Bureau Chief, The Hindu, India
- David Satterthwaite, Senior Fellow, Human Settlements, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom
- Clive Harridge, President, Town Planning Institute, United Kingdom
Closing Session
- Mr. John Pombe Magufuli, Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Co-Chair of the Third Session of the World Urban Forum
- Mr. Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Mr. John Kaputin, Secretary-General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group Secretarit, Belgium
- Ms. Marième Sow, ENDA Tiers Monde, Dakar, Senegal (Speech in French)
- Women's Statement Presented by Ms. Ana Lucy Bengochea, Coordinator, Garifuna Emergency Committee of Honduras
- Youth Statement Presented by Ms. Mernosh Tajhizadeh, ENJEU (ENvironnement JEUnesse), Quebec, Canada
- Mr. Lu Bing, Deputy Mayor of Nanjing, People's Republic of China (Speech in Chinese)
- Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director, UN-Habitat
- Ms. Lois Jackson, Chair, Greater Vancouver Regional District, Canada
- Mr. James Moore, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, Government of Canada.

