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296I_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
"You can't waste a crises!"
Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between different stakeholders?
Interview with Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, the need for respectful disagreement, multifunctional spaces and places, the role of the government, and many more.
Sally Capp is an accomplished leader with extensive experience across both private and public sectors. She was the first woman to be directly elected as Lord Mayor of Melbourne, where she led the city through the pandemic, gaining valuable crisis management expertise. Sally has a strong background in stakeholder engagement, ESG initiatives, and governance, having worked in senior roles at KPMG, ANZ, and as CEO of the Committee for Melbourne. She co-founded a business that was later listed on the ASX and served as Victoria's Agent-General in the UK, Europe, and Israel. A University of Melbourne graduate with degrees in Law and Commerce, she made history in 2004 as the first female board member of Collingwood FC. Passionate about philanthropy, Sally is on the board of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and supports several charities. She is backed by her husband Andrew and their sons, Will and Nic.
You can find out more about Sally through these links:
Sally Capp AOĀ on LinkedIn
Sally Capp AOĀ website
as Sally Capp AO on X
@sallycappĀ as Sally Capp AO on Instagram
Sally Capp AOĀ on Wikipedia
Sally Capp's farewell for City of MelbourneĀ after 6 years
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.018 - Interview with Maria Jose Yanez about different types of urban dwelling types
No.182 - Interview with Ted Baillieu about what the government can do for the building industry
No.264 - Interview with Erick A. Brimen about service-based government
No.268 - Interview with Carina Gormley about the need for room to fail in government
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295R_Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in urban regeneration projects (research summary)
Are you interested in public-private partnerships for improved urban futures?
Summary of the article titled Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in urban regeneration projects from 2024 by Paula Vale de Paula, Rui Cunha Marques, and Jorge Manuel Goncalves, published in the MDPI Infrastructures journal.
This is a great preparation to our next interview with Sally Capp in episode 296 talking about the importance of the public-private partnership endeavours for urban futures.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how can this structure enhance regenerative development. This article investigates the critical success factors for public-private partnerships for urban regeneration projects.
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Abstract: PublicāPrivate Partnership (PPP) arrangements are used in different sectors in the provision of infrastructure and public services. The use of PPP agreements in urban regeneration projects, although more recent, has been gaining prominence in different contexts. However, in many cases, PPP projects have a controversial implementation, often not achieving the proposed objectives and presenting negative results. Their controversial implementation is the result of a lack of knowledge and lack of application of the best practices and Critical Success Factors (CSFs) associated with them. Based on this, the present study aims to identify and analyze the CSFs for PPP arrangements in urban regeneration projects. The study was conducted in two distinct parts. The first part consists of a literature review on the PPP CSFs in general. The second part consists of the development of a questionnaire seeking to identify the CSFs of PPP arrangements for urban regeneration projects. Based on the literature review and the questionnaire answers, the main success factors of PPP projects for urban regeneration were identified and structured in the framework with five main clusters: two related to the external environment (enabling environment and exogenous factors) and three related to the internal environment (preparation phase, procurement phase, and contract management phase).
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.165 - Interview with Michael Healy about actual projects between public and private
No.203R - Too risky ā The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions
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296I_Trailer_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between different stakeholders?
Trailer for episode 296 - interview with Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, the need for respectful disagreement, multifunctional spaces and places, the role of the government, and many more.
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294I_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras PrĆ³spera and NeWay Capital
"You can' have a choice if you don't have opportunities."
Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and governments?
Interview with Erick Brimen, CEO of Honduras PrĆ³spera and NeWay Capital. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, choices and options, the role of government, political, and many more. So, letās start with a proper introduction.
Erick Brimen is the CEO of NeWay Capital, LLC, and Honduras PrĆ³spera Inc., dedicated to fostering human flourishing through strategic investments. As a seasoned finance expert and entrepreneur, Erick has raised nearly $110 million for Honduras PrĆ³spera Inc., driving the development of the PrĆ³spera ZEDE free zone in Honduras. His goal is to tackle poverty by delivering free-market governance as a service. Beginning his career in private and investment banking, Erick has advised on over $1.2 billion in transactions at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. and AG Edwards & Sons. He later joined Ernst & Young in London, consulting on acquisitions for private equity clients, before becoming CFO of Latin American operations for Borealis Group. Erick then founded ComparaMejor.com, Colombiaās leading online insurance brokerage, and established NeWay Capital, which partners with countries globally to create free zones. Originally from Venezuela, Erick now resides in the U.S. with his wife and three children.
Find out more about Erick through these links:
Erick A. BrimenĀ on LinkedIn
@erickbrimenĀ as Erick A. Brimen on X
Erick A. BrimenĀ website
Honduras ProsperaĀ on LinkedIn
Honduras ProsperaĀ website
@ProsperaGlobalĀ as Honduras Prospera on X
@prosperahnĀ as Honduras Prospera on Instagram
NeWay CapitalĀ on LinkedIn
NeWay CapitalĀ website
Connected episodes you might be interested in:
No.274 - Interview with Richard Gill about change management
No.296 - Interview with Sally Capp about goverments' role from the goverments' perspective
No.298 - Interview with Carina Gormley about the need for failure in goverments
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293R_Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches (research summary)
Are you interested in the changing governmental roles in urban transformations?
Summary of the article titled Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches from 2022 by Jochen Monstadt, Jonas Colen Ladeia Torrens, Mansi Jain, Rachel M Macrorie, and Shaun R Smith, published in the Environmental Sustainability journal.
This is a great preparation to our next interview with Erick A. Brimen in episode 294 talking about a new form of governance from their experiments.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how governance changes in our ever-changing world answering current and future challenges. This article synthesizes emerging approaches to the governance of transformative infrastructural change, revealing their underlying logics and potential contributions.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Recent urban debates on the governance of sustainability transformations have witnessed an 'infrastructural turn'. Previously blacked-boxed, the role of infrastructures in sustainability transformations has been foregrounded by both growing academic scholarship and major investments in new infrastructural programs. How these changes are, and could be, governed remains somewhat opaque however, with traditional forms of knowledge and practices in need of urgent revision. To nuance public and academic debates, this paper synthesizes emerging approaches to the governance of transformative infrastructural change, revealing their underlying logics and potential contributions. These include appraisal of; alternative infrastructural pathways via āfuturingā, their enactment via experimentation processes, supported by cross-domain coordination and new assessment methods. Such approaches may open new directions toward urban sustainability but also surface tensions and contradictions inherent to the governance of infrastructures.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.002R - Intelligent Cities
No.064R - The Network State
No.280 - Interview with Hudson Worsley about nature as urban infrastructure
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