This mayor’s innovative leadership changed everything
As a two-time mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño drove innovations that both transformed his city and reshaped how people everywhere move.
Now, Peñalosa, who served from 1998-2001 and 2016-2019, is offering lessons on effective leadership in a new book. He recently sat down with Bloomberg Cities to discuss how his approaches as mayor—including an early focus on building a special team and an "obsession" with equality—helped make his city a hotbed of local government innovation.
Resources for City Innovators
Creating new institutions to meet emerging needs in cities
As cities navigate the complexities of climate change, migration, and artificial intelligence, local leaders are facing a critical question: Are today's public institutions ready for new challenges and opportunities? And what emerging needs will require them to not just add one or two positions, but instead build new institutions?
