We are glad to invite you to a special session on the global city of Chicago which will take place on Wednesday September 19th 2012 at 6.30pm in Chapsal Lecture Hall – 27 rue Saint-Guillaume Paris 7 (2nd floor).
This conference is organised in the framework of the GLM workshop “Cities and Global Challenges” proposed by Prof. Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Advisor to the OECD Secretary General and former Head of the Urban Development Programme. The session will be introduced by Prof. Patrick Le Galès.
The speakers will be Prof. Lance Pressl, Senior Policy Fellow at the Institute for Work and the Economy (Chicago) & former President of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and Prof. Peter Creticos, President and Executive Director of the Institute for Work and the Economy (Chicago).
They will present the key results of the OECD Territorial Review of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area and will provide an overview of the political context in the region: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/oecd-territorial-reviews_19900759
It is compulsory to register: http://www.sciencespo.fr/evenements/inscription/inscription.php?id=1333