NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Mathieu Lefevre is the executive director of the New Cities Foundation. Previously,he worked for the World Bank in the area of governance and as a political officer for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, serving in Afghanistan and the Middle East. He is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and of the London School of Economics. He’s a citizen of France and the U.S. and describes himself as a city enthusiast – with a particular interest in street food.