Henry G. Cisneros is executive chairman of the CityView companies, which work with urban homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families. CityView is a partner in building more than 60 communities in 13 states, incorporating more than 7,000 homes with a home value of over $2 billion. Mr. Cisneros’ community-building career began at the local level. After serving three terms as a city councilmember, in 1981, Mr. Cisneros became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city, San Antonio, Texas. During his four terms as mayor, he helped rebuild the city’s economic base and spurred the creation of jobs through massive infrastructure and downtown improvements. In 1984, Mr. Cisneros was interviewed by the Democratic Presidential nominee as a possible candidate for vice president of the United States and in 1986 was selected as the “Outstanding Mayor” in the nation by City and State Magazine. After completing four terms as Mayor, Mr. Cisneros formed Cisneros Asset Management Company, a fixed income management firm operating nationally and ranked at the time as the second fastest growing money manager in the nation. In 1992, President Clinton appointed Mr. Cisneros to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. As a member of President Clinton’s cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation’s public housing developments and with formulating policies which contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever homeownership rate. In his role as the President’s chief representative to the nation’s cities, Mr. Cisneros personally worked in more than 200 U.S. cities in every one of the 50 states. After leaving HUD in 1997, Mr. Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcaster which has become the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation. Mr. Cisneros currently serves on Univision’s Board of Directors. Mr. Cisneros has served as president of the National League of Cities, as deputy chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and is currently an officer of Habitat for Humanity International. Mr. Cisneros remains active in San Antonio’s leadership where he is Chairman of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation. He is currently a member of the advisory boards of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation. Mr. Cisneros has been inducted into the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) “Builders Hall of Fame” and honored by the National Housing Conference as the “Housing Person of the Year.” Mr. Cisneros has also been author or editor of several books, including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation. His book project with former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy, was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation, and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006. Mr. Cisneros holds a bachelor of arts and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Texas A&M University. He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, studied urban economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a doctorate in public administration from George Washington University, and has been awarded more than 20 honorary doctorates from leading universities. He served as an infantry officer in the United States Army.

Ellen Dunham-Jones is an award-winning architect, professor of architecture and coordinator of the M.S. in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published over 50 articles linking contemporary theory and practice, serves as co-peer review editor of the journal Places, is vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and is active in national discussions concerning the design of healthy communities. A leading authority on suburban redevelopment, she lectures widely, conducts workshops with municipalities, and consults on individual projects. She and co-author June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley & Sons, 2009, updated paperback edition in 2011). The book’s documentation of successful retrofits of vacant big box stores, dead and thriving malls, and aging office parks into more sustainable places has received significant media attention in The New York Times, PBS, NPR, Harvard Business Review, Urban Land, Planning, Architectural Record and other venues. The book received a PROSE award from the American Association of Publishers, was featured in Time Magazine’s March 23, 2009 cover story, “10 ideas changing the world right now” and is the subject of her 2010 TED talk. Her ongoing research on short and long-term tactics for scaling up suburban retrofitting in the U.S. and abroad continues to attract broad attention including from the Ford Foundation, MoMA, the NEA, and the CDC. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Princeton University and taught at UVA and MIT before joining Georgia Tech’s faculty to serve as Director of the Architecture Program from 2001-2009.

Christopher B. Leinberger is a land use strategist, teacher, developer, researcher and author, balancing business realities with social and environmental concerns. Mr.Leinberger is president of Locus, Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors; a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.; professor at the Graduate Real Estate Development Program at the University of Michigan; and founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a New Urbanism and transit oriented development firm. His most recent book is The Option of Urbanism, Investing in a New American Dream. He is the author of Strategic Planning for Real Estate Companies and has contributed chapters to 12 other books. He is an op-ed contributor for the The New York Times, writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly, and numerous other magazines. CNN, National Public Radio, Atlantic Cities Channel, The Washington Post, among others, have profiled him. Leinberger was voted one of the “Top 100 Urban Thinkers” in a 2009 poll conducted by Planetizen, the international urban planning website. He was the 2010 William H. Whyte Urbanism Award winner by Partners for Livable Communities. Leinberger is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Harvard Business School, and lives in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C.

Laura L. Carstensen is professor of psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University, where she is also the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, which explores innovative ways to solve the problems of people over 50 and improve the well-being of people of all ages. She is best known for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation. Her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging for more than 20 years and is currently funded through a MERIT award. Dr.Carstensen is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Gerontological Society of America. She has chaired two studies for the National Academy of Sciences, resulting in The Aging Mind and When I’m 64. She has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on an Aging Society. In 2011, she published A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity (Public Affairs Press). Carstensen received her B.S. from the University of Rochester and Ph.D in clinical psychology from West Virginia University. Five years ago, Carstensen and her colleagues founded the Stanford Center on Longevity, an exciting and innovative effort that involves over 100 faculty members from all over campus – medicine, law, business, computer science, psychology, engineering, economics. The Center builds interdisciplinary teams of researchers and forms partnerships with businesses and industries outside of the university in order to discover and implement practical solutions for problems of people over 50 that improve quality of life at all ages.

Matthias Hollwich, SBA, is a registered European architect and cofounder of Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) and Architizer. HWKN is a New York-based group of architects, designers, social media experts, and inventors operating within the field of architecture, urbanism, branding, digital media, and development. Architizer is the world's largest social media site for architecture. Before cofounding HWKN and ARCHITIZER, Matthias worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, and Diller + Scofidio in New York. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 2010, he organized “New Aging: An International Conference on Aging and Architecture." In 2004, Matthias finished editing his book at the Bauhaus: UmBauhaus—Updating Modernism (Jovis). Currently he is working on New Aging, a manifest on aging and architecture to be published in the fall of 2012. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Bauwelt, Architects Magazine, Dwell, among other publications. He has been a speaker at TED_U, TED_X Atlanta, and PICNIC in Amsterdam.

Dr. John Rowe is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, from 2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe served as chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations. Before his tenure at Aetna, from 1988 to 2000, Dr. Rowe served as president and chief executive officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation’s largest academic health care organizations. From 1988 to 1998, prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, Dr. Rowe was president of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a professor of medicine and the founding director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as chief of gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, mostly on the physiology of the aging process, including a leading textbook of geriatric medicine, in addition to more recent publications on health care policy. Dr. Rowe has received many honors and awards for his research and health policy efforts regarding care of the elderly. He was director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, Ph.D., of Successful Aging (Pantheon, 1998). Currently, Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on An Aging Society. He has served as president of the Gerontological Society of America and recently chaired the Committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences on The Future Health Care Workforce Needs of An Aging Population. Dr. Rowe was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences where he is involved in the Evidence Based Roundtable. Dr. Rowe serves on the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation and is chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr Rowe is a former member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

Estelle Richman serves as acting deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In this role, Richman manages the day-to-day operations of the agency, with a particular focus on the transformation of HUD's human capital, procurement, and information technology function. She also contributes important expertise to the efforts underway to break down internal agency silos. After more than 30 years of public service, Richman joined HUD from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare where she served as Secretary of Public Welfare for seven years. She also served as managing director for the City of Philadelphia and previously director of social services for the City of Philadelphia. Other positions held by Richman include the City of Philadelphia's Commissioner of Public Health and Deputy commissioner for mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services; and assistant director with the positive education program in Cleveland, Ohio, a day treatment program for children with behavior problems. A nationally recognized expert on issues of behavioral health and children's services, Richman has been honored for advocacy efforts by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association, among others. She is also the recipient of the 1998 Ford Foundation/Good Housekeeping Award for Women in Government. In addition, the Behavioral Health System named her the winner of the 1999 Innovations in American Government from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Scott Smith is the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, elected in May of 2008. At that time, Mesa found itself in an unprecedented budget crisis. Mayor Smith restructured city departments and operations and cut more than $65 million from Mesa’s operating budget. While these cuts were deep, this action enabled Mesa to handle the fiscal downturn early with fewer disruptions than many neighboring cities. After stabilizing the city’s financial situation, Smith led a successful effort to keep Chicago Cubs spring training in Mesa - securing the future of a 50-year baseball tradition in the Cactus League and a powerful tourism driver in the region. Mayor Smith helped secure the deal for First Solar to build a solar module manufacturing plant in Mesa. At full build out, First Solar will bring nearly 5,000 high-wage jobs ranging from accounting and manufacturing to engineering and information technology. Most recently, Mayor Smith announced StartUpMesa, a new initiative to make Mesa the most business-friendly city in America. StartUpMesa will expand collaboration between business and government, empower and strengthen small business, expand access to capital, provide entrepreneurship education and remove barriers to success. In January 2010, Mayor Smith unveiled iMesa, an exciting initiative designed to invigorate Mesa through transformative community projects. Leveraging technology for civic engagement, iMesa is a grassroots improvement effort where residents submit, vote, and comment on ideas that will transform the community. As a strong proponent of regional solutions, Mayor Smith serves in key roles on many local, state and national boards and committees. Most recently, Smith was elected as the second vice president of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). He will become the organization's president in 2013 and the first Arizona mayor to serve as president of the organization. The Wall Street Journal, Politico and the Arizona Republic have run op-ed pieces about the national debt crisis co-authored by Mayor Smith, USCM President Antonio Villaraigosa (Los Angeles) and Vice President Michael Nutter (Philadelphia). Smith has also been featured on Bloomberg TV, MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell, CNBC's Kudlow Report, ABC News with Diane Sawyer and in the Washington Post. Mayor Smith also serves on the Maricopa Association of Governments Regional Council Executive Committee and Transportation Policy Committee, League of Cities and Towns Executive Board, and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Board.

Fernando M. Torres-Gil is a professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy at UCLA, an adjunct professor of Gerontology at USC, and Director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging. He has served as associate dean and acting dean at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He has written six books and over l00 publications, including The New Aging: Politics and Change in America (1992) and Lessons from Three Nations, Volumes I and II (2007). His academic contributions have earned him membership in the prestigious Academies of Public Administration, Gerontology and Social Insurance. His research spans important topics of health and long-term care, disability, entitlement reform, and the politics of aging. Professor Torres-Gil earned his first presidential appointment in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the Federal Council on Aging. He was selected as a White House Fellow and served under Joseph Califano, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), and continued as a special assistant to the subsequent Secretary of HEW, Patricia Harris. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the first-ever U.S. Assistant Secretary on Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Professor Torres-Gil played a key role in promoting the importance of the issues of aging, long-term care and disability, community services for the elderly, and baby boomer preparation for retirement. He served under Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, managing the Administration on Aging and organizing the 1995 White House Conference on Aging, in addition to serving as a member of the President’s Welfare Reform Working Group. In 20l0 he received his third presidential appointment when President Barack Obama appointed him as vice chair of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that reports to the Congress and White House on federal matters related to disability policy. During his public service in Washington, D.C., he also served as staff director of the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging under his mentor, Congressman Edward R. Roybal. Professor Torres-Gil has served as the vice president of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission and a member of the Harbor and Taxi Commissions for the city of Los Angeles. He currently serves Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as an appointed member of the Board of Airport Commissioners. At the state level, he was appointed by former Governor Gray Davis to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Veterans’ Homes and by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. He continues to provide important leadership in philanthropy and non-profit organizations as a board member of the AARP Foundation and the California Endowment, and he is a former board member of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California and the Los Angeles Chinatown Service Center. Dr. Torres-Gil was born and raised in Salinas, California, the son of migrant farm workers. He earned his A.A. in Political Science at Hartnell Community College (1968), a B.A. with honors in Political Science from San Jose State University (1970), and an M.S.W. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in Social Policy, Planning and Research from the Heller Graduate School in Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.