The Grand Finale – Creative Bureaucracy Festival Awards (DE/ENG)

Klara Geywitz ist eine deutsche Politikerin (SPD) und seit dem 8. Dezember 2021 Bundesministerin für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen im Kabinett Scholz. Außerdem ist sie Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für den Berlin-Umzug und den Bonn-Ausgleich.

Sie gehörte von 2004 bis 2019 als direkt gewählte Abgeordnete des Wahlkreises Potsdam I dem Landtag Brandenburg an. Seit Dezember 2019 ist sie eine der stellvertretenden Bundesvorsitzenden der SPD.

Astrid Frohloff ist selbstständige Konferenzmoderatorin, Diplom-Journalistin, Executive Coach und Kommunikationsberaterin. Sie ist bekannt aus Magazin- und Nachrichtensendungen im deutschen Fernsehen, die sie viele Jahr lang als freie Moderatorin präsentiert hat. Sie hat Politik- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie Journalistik studiert. Nach Stationen in Hamburg, Hannover, Austin/USA und Jerusalem/Israel lebt sie heute mit ihrer Familie in Berlin.

Charles Landry works with cities around the world to help them make the most of their potential and facilitates complex urban change projects. His aim is to connect the triad culture, creativity and city making. He is co-founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival. He twice chaired the European Capital of Innovation Award as well as the EU Research & Innovation Commission project ‘The human-centred city: Opportunities for citizens through research and innovation’. He has published extensively – most recently ‘The Civic City in a Nomadic World’, ‘The Creative Bureaucracy’ (with Margie Caust), ‘An Advanced Introduction to the Creative City’, ‘Psychology & the City’ (with Chris Murray) and ‘The Digitized City’. You can download these books as PDF files via Charles’ website: https://charleslandry.com 

Stéphane Beemelmans ist seit Dezember 2016 Geschäftsführer der PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH und war zuvor seit November 2016 Mitglied des Vorstands von Partnerschaften Deutschland (heute PD – Berater der öffentlichen Hand GmbH).
Stéphane Beemelmans verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung in verantwortlichen Positionen der öffentlichen Verwaltung und der Politik. Nach seiner Tätigkeit in der Landesregierung Sachsen war der Jurist von 2011 bis 2014 beamteter Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium der Verteidigung. Zuletzt war Stéphane Beemelmans Geschäftsführer der Beratungsagentur EUTOP Berlin GmbH.

Brian brings more than 25 years of professional experience in the public and private sectors to the role of Director of the Office of Performance & Innovation, and Director of Strategic Management for the City of Minneapolis. His background includes work in nonprofit management, county government, for-profit business development, policy consultation, fundraising, lobbying and reform efforts in juvenile justice, human services, health, transportation and education.

He also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Fortis Capital, a non-profit corporation engaged in economic development finance with an emphasis on providing access to debt capital for businesses owned by persons of color and in marginalized communities. Before joining the City, Brian was owner and president of the Institute on Culture and Policy, a policy consulting firm dedicated to eliminating racial and ethnic disparities through systems change and community engagement. While maintaining his leadership role with the Institute on Culture and Policy, Brian also served as the State of Minnesota’s coordinator for the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative for five years.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom is the Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA World). She is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.

Opened in 2017, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park is the first critical piece of green infrastructure in Bangkok to reduce urban flood risk. With on-site water management, the park can collect, treat, and hold up to one million gallons of water, alleviating overwhelmed public sewage during heavy rainfall. In 2019, Thammasat Urban Rooftop Farm, Asia’s largest, was opened. Landprocess repurposed wasted rooftop space to address food and water scarcity in preparation for future climate challenges. In 2020, Chao Phraya Sky Park was realized. Once an inaccessible and incomplete sky railway, the old ruins are now whole, becoming the first realized bridge park to cross a river in any capital city in the world.

Voraakhom is featured in 2019, TIME 100 Next, a list from TIME Magazine —that spotlights 100 rising stars who are shaping the future of the world. She is also on the list of 15 women fighting against climate change from TIME. She was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg. She got an award from United Nations as Winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results. Voraakhom is a Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA World), TED Fellows, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, Atlantic Fellow, and Futurity Fellows from BMW Foundation. She received her master’s in landscape architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Sebastian Turner started his professional life in the media business as a founder: In 1985 he launched Medium, today Germany’s leading magazine for journalists. As CEO he turned the international communications agency Scholz & Friends, into the largest independent agency network in Europe. He initiated the leading global science conference Falling Walls. During his tenure as publisher and shareholder Tagesspiegel established a vertical digital eco system and became Germany’s leading capital newsorganisation, moving from rank four to rank one with the best circulation performance of all German dailies. As founder of the media tech holding Trafo he ventures into the growing field of media tech and content tech. Turner holds a degree of the Graduate School of Duke University, USA, and serves as a honorary professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin.