As the world rapidly grows more urban, city leaders are turning to a new form of voluntary, locally oriented diplomacy to coordinate with their global peers on sustainable development, infrastructure, public safety, and climate change concerns. Expert Brief by Alyssa Ayres, published by the Council on Foreign Relations June 27, 2018 Diplomacy and international relations are considered [...]

13th March 2017 Jonathan Andrews Patricia de Lille, Mayor of Cape Town, has become the new Chairwoman of the Steering Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. De Lille will be the interim chair until a new chair is elected during the annual meeting due to be held later in 2017. De Lille is taking over from Jozias [...]

JEN KINNEY     FEBRUARY 22, 2016 With local leaders increasingly facing global challenges like climate change and large-scale migration — and often rising to the occasion — the more opportunities for mayors to collaborate, the better. This year, they’ll have another space for that kind of sharing: the first meeting [...]

The Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM) held its inaugural meeting in The Hague on 9th – 11th September. Mayors from many cities across the world convened to discuss the biggest issues their cities are facing, to share best practices and to learn lessons for future policy and practice. Representatives from other sectors were also present, including The [...]

Stepping into the shoes of Jozias van Aartsen, Mayor of The Hague, Cape Town's Patricia de Lille has been named the new Chairwoman of the Steering Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. By Ezra Claymore  2017-03-14 08:59 in News Well, would you look at that. Cape Town’s very own Patricia de Lille has been appointed to [...]