Gildo Seisdedos Domínguez
Gildo Seisdedos is a Spanish economist and lawyer who specializes in city marketing and smart cities. He is a professor at the IE Business School, lecturer and editor in media and international publications. He has published several books, highlighting "Cómo gestionar las ciudades del siglo XXI" (Managing 21st-century cities), published in Spanish by Prentice Hall. Biography. As director of the Forum for Urban Management, Seisdedos actively collaborated in Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Segovia, Cuenca, Zaragoza, Nuevo Hamburgo (Brasil), Barcelona, Burgos, Bogotá, Cuenca (Ecuador), Almería, Irún, Viena and Omán, where he participated in the  planning project of the Sultanate. His book "Cómo gestionar las ciudades del siglo XXI" (Managing 21st-century cities) (2007) published in Spanish, introduced a new methodology, the "UDS" or urban development strategy. Seisdedos is a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Town and City Management" and "Sustainable City" magazine, where he is a regular contributor. He is a regular collaborator at Design Convergence Urbanism, Member of the International Association of Planners (ISOCARP) with consultative status at UNESCO and belongs to the Spanish area of the Habitat Committee.