Bio

Hazem Galal is PwC’s Cities and Local Government Global Leader and the global smart mobility co-leader. He has expertise in strategy formulation and implementation for cities and local government entities in multiple domains, including smart cities. He was the project adviser for the World Economic Forum’s research on the “The Impact of 5G”, “Future Cities and Urban Services: Shaping the Future of Urban Development & Services”, “Harnessing Public-Private Cooperation to Deliver the New Urban Agenda”, “Affordable Housing” and he is a member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. Hazem was also the co-chair for the working group on city connectivity , as part of the ITU and UNESE’s initiative Smart Sustainable Cities. Hazem is the co-author of the book “Delivering Sustainable Competitiveness - Revisiting the organising capacity of cities”. He worked with cities and state governments around the world such as New York, Colorado State, Al Madinah, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Makkah, Riyadh, Amsterdam, Moscow, Sochi, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Astana, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Beijing, which gives him an edge of expertise in both developed and developing cities conditions. Hazem has been a speaker at numerous global conferences on cities, hosting mega events, innovation, sustainable development and smart communities organized by national governments, the World Economic Forum, World Bank, the G20, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations and other international bodies in developed and developing countries, including the BRICS. He has been hosted as a cities experts on several occasions by leading media channels such as the BBC, CNBC, CNN, Russia Today and Channel News Asia. Prior to joining PwC he worked for the United Nations Development Programme and for several management consulting companies.