Cristina Garrido

Cristina is CEO of Anteverti, a consulting company specialized on urban innovation. She is also Director of CitiesToBe - a platform to reflect on the present and the future of cities-, and Curator of the international spin-offs of the Smart City Expo World Congress.

Cristina has more than 18 years of global experience advising cities, companies, and other institutions in creating their strategic vision and developing it through innovation, creativity and influence. She is a regular speaker, has lectured at different universities and has recently become a member of the Academic Board of the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities.

Cristina holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, an MA in Urban Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and completed the Ignite program in business innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business.