Speakers and Moderators

Marjo Kyllönen
Director of Development
City of Helsinki, Finland

Marjo is passionate about Future school concepts, leadership, and school culture.  She believes that education can make a difference and build societies for future success.  As Head of Education of Development Services for the City of Helsinki, Marjo oversees expert and development services in the Education Sector, providing education services from early childhood education to adult training.  As former Chief of Education at the General Education division for over ten years, Marjo has a PhD in Education and defended her doctoral thesis on Future School and Leadership.  At her current position, Marjo shapes ‘Basic education,’ covering curriculum matters, pupil participation, special education, and multicultural issues.  She is appointed to various committees on the national level on topics including curriculum work, pupil welfare, and pupil assessment.  She has written publications in pre and basic education, evaluation, multicultural issues, multi-professional cooperation, future school concepts, and future leadership.  Near to her heart is voluntary work promoting children’s education in developing countries.  Currently, Marjo is involved in NGO work in Kenya, Nyanza district, with a key task to coach the local leaders to build a better school for less privileged children in that area.

Paul Stevens, AIA, OAA
Senior Principal
ZAS Architects

Paul Stevens is a Senior Principal with ZAS Architects and co-heads the Toronto studio overseeing all projects in Canada.  He joined the firm in 1989 and quickly rose through the organization of the predecessor firm to become Design Director working predominantly on community based cultural and educational projects.  Recently he was the Principal in Charge for the multi-award-winning Canoe Landing Community Campus in the Fort York neighborhood of Toronto.  This project has been widely acclaimed as a successful city building partnership in one of Canada’s highest density “vertical” communities.  Paul’s commitment to building strong Toronto neighborhoods is best exemplified by the brownfield development of River City, a carbon neutral, LEED Gold residential development in Corktown. He is currently leading the ZAS architectural team responsible for the revitalization of the Public Realm at Ontario Place, one of the City’s most anticipated and closely watched civic projects under design development. Other notable work includes the University of Toronto’s Instructional Centre 2, a 21,000 square meter campus defining hub that is currently under construction, and targeting Toronto Green Standard, version 3. His commitment to sustainability is unwavering in the work he has produced as well as the professional development participation of Passive House, Zero Carbon Design and Mass Timber Low Carbon initiatives. His project work has appeared in over 100 different print and media outlets ranging from the New York Times to Monocle. Along with practicing architectural design, Paul maintains an active connection with various Universities and Colleges, working with undergraduate, post graduate and foreign trained students.

William Anderson, FACIP
Principal – CITECON
Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego

Bill’s focus is comprehensive city and regional planning, development economics, and implementation, working on projects in cities and regions throughout the United States and internationally.  He is a lecturer on urban economic development at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior advisor to clients on planning and development under the dba CITECON.   Bill’s professional experience includes Principal for City Economics at Arup; Principal/VP and Director of City & Regional Planning, Americas for AECOM; and a Sr. VP for Economics Research Associates.  With these firms, Bill has worked on economic planning engagements in thirty states and ten countries. His government experience includes serving as Director of City Planning & Community Investment for the City of San Diego; Deputy Executive Director of the San Diego Redevelopment Agency; and Deputy Chief Operating Officer.  Bill chaired the San Diego Association of Governments’ Technical Working Group of the region’s planning directors, chaired SanGIS, and was a board member of the San Diego Public Facilities Financing Authority.  He directed adoption of San Diego’s City of Villages General Plan, which received APA’s prestigious Daniel Burnham Award for national excellence in comprehensive planning. It was California’s first large jurisdiction general plan adopted in compliance with AB32, the landmark climate law.  An FAICP, Bill was national President of the 38,000-member American Planning Association from 2013-15, President of the California Planning Roundtable from 2018-2021, is a Vice-Chair of ULI’s Urban Revitalization Council and serves on ULI’s Curtis Infrastructure Forum leadership team. Bill received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Claremont McKenna College, and Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University.

Craig Lewis, FACIP, CNUA-A, LEED-AP
Principal – CallisonRTKL
ULI Curtis Infrastructure Global Advisory Board Chair

Craig is the Community Co-Leader for North America and the Global Market Leader for Urbanism + Landscape with CallisonRTKL, a global planning, architecture, interiors, and landscape design firm. For more than 30 years, he has used an inter-disciplinary approach to plan and implement the growth and regeneration of urban places across the globe that are more livable, equitable, and sustainable. His international, award-winning work spans the range of city building including planning, urban design, placemaking, transit/transportation, form-based codes, and smart mobility. The work of Craig’s team has been recognized with awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism, the International Downtown Association, the American Planning Association, and numerous other regional and state organizations. Craig is currently the design lead for The Point, the redevelopment of the Utah State Prison in Draper, UT consisting of a 92 acre first phase that includes 6 million square foot of urban, mixed-use, transit- and trail-oriented development. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP), a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional, an accredited member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU-A), and an original signatory of the Charter of the New Urbanism. He serves as Chair for the Design Review Board in Davidson, NC and is the Chair of the ULI Curtis Global Infrastructure Initiative and is a Board member for ULI-Charlotte.

Yvonne Yeung
CEO, SDG Strategies
ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow

Yvonne Yeung is the CEO of SDG Strategies, a global consultancy based in Canada, with over 23 years of public and private sector experience delivering high-quality, award-winning, sustainable transit-oriented communities and vibrant public spaces worldwide. Her work focuses on informing how cities can unlock the value of infrastructure to deliver healthy, equitable, climate-ready walkable neighbourhood through synergistic collaboration as a blueprint.  Appointed as ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow, Vice-chair of the ULI SDRC Product Council, member of ULI Infrastructure Forum Leadership, ULI Toronto Advisory Board and ULI WLI Women’s Leadership Initiative Champions, Yvonne authors ULI Infrastructure Leadership research publication and founded the “ULI Getting to Transit Oriented Communities Initiative,” leading strategic collaborations across global cities, promoting progressive city-building practices and collaborations between public and private sectors.

Specialized in team building, executive strategy, large-scale transformation and cross-sector implementation, Yvonne is the recipient of the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management MBA Award, and the American Society of Landscape Architects Honour Award. As an urban designer, planner, landscape architect, and sustainable neighbourhood development accredited professional, Yvonne has developed urban design implementation frameworks for Age-Friendly and Cognitive-Friendly Communities, Urban Mixed-use School Community Hubs, Digital Smart-City Integration, Strategic Partnerships for Community Infrastructure Integration in High-Density Neighbourhoods, Public Realm Strategy and Transit-oriented Communities Urban Design Implementation Framework. Her participatory-design work was profiled at the Design Exchange in Toronto and further evolved into an award-winning interdisciplinary tool for cross-sector development of precinct plans to unlock TOCs.  Her projects have won planning and design excellence awards from the Waterfront Centre in Washington DC, the International Grands Prix Du Design, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the City of Toronto Urban Design.