Ommid Saberi is a Senior Industry Specialist, Green Buildings in IFC’s climate business department based in Washington DC. As the global technical lead for EDGE green building certification, Ommidworks across the projects within World Bank Group including IFC investment and advisory projects. He has done extensive work with the property sector, as well as funds and commercial bank clients to divert the investments to climate-smart buildings and projects.

Gordon is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Board for the UN United Smart Cities program and is a city developer, city consultant, global thought leader in cities, technology clusters, property& infrastructure developer, chartered surveyor who has been based in Singapore for the last 10 years. He has previously been Head of Masdar City Strategy in Abu Dhabi and Director of Cisco Urban Innovation. He has worked worldwide with governments, NGO’s, the UN, World Bank, and the European Commission.