FORA.tv Speaker - Gordon Feller

Gordon Feller is a director of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group's Urban Innovations team within the Public Sector Practice. Feller works with corporate and city leaders worldwide. In this capacity he supports Cisco's numerous China initiatives, while simultaneously leading Cisco's new City Leader Program for Chinese mayors and city-based party secretaries. Prior to joining Cisco IBSG, Feller was CEO of the Urban Age, an international research organization which began as a magazine inside the World Bank and was spun off ten years later, in 2001. For nearly 30 years, Feller has advised on urban development issues with leaders of multinational companies, cities, NGOs / foundations, and national governments.

His clients have included World Bank, United Nations, German and Canadian national governments, The Rockefeller Foundation, IBM, Reuters, Metropolis, and United Cities & Local Governments. Feller advises leaders on how information and communications technology can help solve complex urban environmental problems such as reducing carbon emissions, while developing practical and forward-looking solutions that intersect economics, technology, and sustainability. His work is the basis of a documentary film and other multimedia projects. Feller has written hundreds of articles for newspapers, scholarly journals, and magazines, including for CFO Magazine, Urban Land Magazine, TIME Magazine, Financial Times. He was formerly executive editor of Urban Age Magazine and Planet Earth Magazine. Feller has been a keynote speaker at key leadership events, including the "Meeting of the Minds," an annual gathering of leaders drawn from government, NGOs and private sector. Feller received his Bachelor's in political science, cum laude, and a Master's in international affairs, both from Columbia University, where served as a Lehman Fellow, a Wallach Fellow and a Deans Fellow.