Global Urban Competitiveness Project

Global Urban Competitiveness Project (GUCP) was initiated by Professor Peter Karl Kresl (Bucknell University, USA) and Professor Ni Pengfei (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) during the first international forum on urban competitiveness in August 2004. The GUCP, officially founded up in Ottawa in April 2005, is a sustainable project on global urban competitiveness. It aims to gather global experts who are interested in urban competitiveness to make contributions. The GUCP has a committee, whose president is Professor Peter Karl Kresl and general secretary is Professor Ni Pengfei. The committee secretariat locates in the Center for City and Competitiveness, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

GUCP Goals

1. Analyzing all aspects of the competitiveness of the world’s urban regions

2. Promoting better communication among those who are doing research on urban competitiveness

3. Enhancing the relations between urban competitiveness researchers and urban government and leaders

4. Advertising more effective urban economic strategic plans throughout the world

5. Helping municipal leaders to enhance the competitiveness of their precincts and thereby to upgrade economic welfare of their local residents

6. Encouraging researchers in both industrialized and developing economies to get more interested in and make more researches on urban competitiveness

GUCP Tasks

1. Holding international seminars on general issues of urban competitiveness every year to deepen its academic studies

2. Making policy study and policy simplification from a global perspective as constructive opinions for municipal decision-making authorities

3. Providing administrative trainings and research programs for urban government in both industrialized and developing economies

GUCP Counselors

Peter Kerr (Chairman of Institute Planning Division of London University, President of City, Town and Rural Planning Association and Regional Research Association)

Prof. Saskia Sarson (Sociology Professor, Columbia University)

Peter Taylor (Academician of Royal Academy of Sociology, Professor of Loughborough University, UK)

Fan Gang (Ph. D. Economics, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice-chairman of China Society of Economic Reform, Director General of China Reform Foundation, Director of National Economic Research Institute)

Li Xiaoxi (Deputy Director of Academic Committee of Beijing Normal University, Dean of School of Economics and Resource Management, Doctoral Supervisor, expert who receives special government allowances of the state council)

GUCP Committee Members

Prof. Peter Karl Kresl (President of Bucknell University, USA)

Prof. Maki Komeito (Tohoku University, Japan)

Pear Paul Brockes (Senior Researcher, Policy Institute of Canada)

Prof. Louis James Sobrino Figueroa (Researcher and Academic PHD Liaison of Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico)

Prof. Dong Sung Cho (Strategy, International Business and Management Plan of Seoul National University, Korea)

Prof. Jianfa Shen (Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

Francisco Antonio Serrano Camarena (Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Center for the Development of International Business and Currency, Mexico)

Prof. Berg Van den Leo (Regional and Urban Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)

Prof. Guido Ferrari (University of Florence, Italy)

Prof. Sergion Conti (Economy and Geography Division, University of Turin, Italy)

Prof. Drei Hansenplage (Institute of European City Study, Hochschule Wismar University, Germany)

Prof. Ni Pengfei (National Academy of Economic Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

GUCP Secretariat

Center for City and Competitiveness, CASS

Address: Room 2351, No. 2 Bldg, No. 2 Institution, Yuetan Bei Xiaojie, Beijing, China

Tel: 86-10-68063478;

Email: csjzl2009@163.com

Website: www.gucp.org