Collaborating for the future

(From left) Khazanah Nasional Bhd‘s Amir Zakwan Anuar, Think City programme director Dr Neil Khor, Hamdan, Maimunah, Khazanah Nasional Bhd managing director Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, Urban Planning and Design Branch coordinator Shipra Narang Suri, UN-Habitat city planning leader Laura Petrella, Khazanah Europe Investment Ltd executive director Javier Santiso, SVP Irwan Shahrin Ismail and executive assistant & office manager Zoe Galea.

UN-HABITAT and Malaysian non-profit Think City are initiating a strategic partnership to advocate and promote the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 11, which aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed following preliminary discussions held during the ninth World Urban Forum, which took place in Kuala Lumpur in February.