The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) honored the recipients of its annual Urban Leadership Awards, which recognize leaders who are guiding cities toward a sustainable and vibrant future, at the 15th annual Urban Leadership Forum entitled “Just & Inclusive Cities” on April 11.

Award recipient Egbert Perry is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Integral, an Atlanta-based company founded in 1993 with a mission to create value in cities and (re)build the fabric of communities. He has helped Integral become a premier provider of sustainable real estate and community solutions in mature and emerging markets across the United States and internationally. With Integral in the mid-1990s, he helped transform the site of the first public-housing project in the US into the country’s first mixed-income development. He also helped create the legal, regulatory and financial model that made it possible to incorporate public-housing eligible units into mixed-income housing developments. From 2001–2008, he served on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and from 2014–2018 he served as Chairman of the Board of Fannie Mae. He received his BS and an MS in civil engineering from Penn and is an emeritus member of Penn’s Board of Trustees and the IUR Advisory Board.

Mauricio Rodas has been mayor of Quito, Ecuador, since 2014, when he became the youngest mayor in the city’s history. He is also currently world co-president of the United Cities and Local Governments Organization. He serves as a member of the boards of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. He is a Young Global Leader and member of the Future Global Council of Cities and Urbanization of the World Economic Forum. He is founder of Fundación Ethos, a Latin American think tank based in Mexico that develops responsible government models and projects on social and environmental policy. He has worked as a consultant in public policy for several ministries of the Mexican government, and has participated in the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago de Chile and Mexico City. He holds a Juris Doctor from Universidad Católica de Quito and MA in government administration and political science from Penn.