Hui Ling Lim

Prague

Ling is passionate about the need to facilitate in cities a profound connection to nature and community as the foundation to wellbeing and socio-environmental solidarity. As a Climate Reality Leader, she is dedicated to empowering others to step up and lead on sustainability. She speaks on environmental stewardship and leads mindful forest retreats, and has hosted a documentary on ecology as a development strategy. She has been involved in development policy and action at every level, as a negotiator at the United Nations, as an urban planner, community leader and startup advisor. She is familiar with issues and opportunities of livability, resilience and sustainability in high-density cities and regions, through her work at the think-tank Centre for Liveable Cities, the Metropolitan Compact Task Force and as a Citizen Advisory Committee member to the New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery. She is also the former curator of the World Cities Summit and Mayors Forum.