Kiko, Javi At 2022 World Cities Summit
August 3, 2022
How can cities emerge stronger with challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change and many more in the future?
Mayors or local chief executives, business leaders and knowledge experts from all over the world have come together in Singapore from July 31 to August 3, 2022 for intensive discussions on how to help global cities remain liveable, sustainable and more resilient through prolonged and predictable disruptions.
Victorias City Mayor Javier Miguel Benitez who is also the President of the Negros Occidental Association of City Executives (ACE) and Third District of Negros Occidental Representative Dr. Jose Francisco Benitez are among the participants representing the country in the four-day 8th World Cities Summit at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Singapore.
Mayor Benitez is also focal mayor for youth development of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) and representative of the ASEAN Young Business Leaders.
Congressman Benitez is chair of the HOR Committee on Housing and Urban Development in the 19th Congress.
The two Negrense officials will participate in workshop engagements on five major areas – sustainable financing, smart cities, development and planning, urban resilience and liveable future cities.*
