Sharif: Managed Cities Are Key To Driving Sustainable Development

Maimunah Mohd Sharif, a Muslim Technocrat, is now the head of UN-Habitat and is chairwoman of the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur. As such, she is now in charge of the UN’s New Urban Agenda that was produced at Habitat-III. ⁃ TN EditorThe head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) said on Wednesday that a week-long conference on sustainable urban development that kicked off Wednesday in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, will open a “global conversation ab