 The annual World Mayor project aims to raise the profile of mayors worldwide as well as to honour those who have served their communities well and who have made contributions to the well-being of cities nationally and internationally  FRONT PAGE About us  The 2008 finalists Voting for World Mayor 2008 The World Mayor Award  On Mayor of Cape Town On Mayor of Chacao On Mayor of Gothenburg On Mayor of Guayaquil On Mayor of Marikina City On Mayor of Memphis On Mayor of Nuremberg On Mayor of Phoenix On Mayor of Porto Alegre On Mayor of Tehran On Mayor of Villa Nueva On Mayor of Zurich  The 2006 results Methodology The 2006 finalists The World Mayor Award Dora Bakoyannis congratulates John So  The 2005 results Contest methodology List of finalists Winning mayors write Mayor Rama writes - Mayor Bakoyannis replies  The 2004 contest List of all 2004 finalists Edi Rama wins 2004 award People ask - Edi Rama replies  Front Page Site Search About City Mayors |
 Mayors from 50 cities compete for the 2008 World Mayor Award Citizens from all over the world took part in record numbers in the first round of the 2008 World Mayor contest, which was carried out in 2007. More than 100,000 voters nominated a total of 820 mayors for this year’s World Mayor Award. Some mayors received thousands of nominations while others collected only a handful. Citizens were also asked to provide a supporting statement when nominating a mayor for the World Mayor title. More  World Mayor 2008 every vote counts You are now invited to choose, from the list of the mayors from 50 cities, the city leader you believe to be most worthy of the title World Mayor 2008. The list includes 11 mayors from Asia, 10 from North America and 11 from Latin America as well as 15 from Europe and 3 from Africa. Vote now World Mayor Award sculpture shows courage and conviction City Mayors commissioned French artist Manuel Ferrari to design a sculpture that was as unique as the city of the winning mayor. City Mayors' senior editor, Tann vom Hove, said: “We asked Manuel Ferrari to produce a design that shows what an inspirational mayor can achieve if he builds on strong foundations.” More |
 Every two years the world's most outstanding mayor is presented with the World Mayor Award. Previous winners are Edi Rama, Mayor of Tirana, Dora Bakoyannis, Mayor of Athens and John So, Lord Mayor of Melbourne  AFRICA • Omar El Bahraoui, Mayor of Rabat, Morocco • Helen Zille, Cape Town, South Africa • Amos Masondo, Johannesburg, South Africa NORTH AMERICA • Stephen Mandel, Edmonton, Canada • Sam Katz, Winnipeg, Canada • Martin Chavez, Albuquerque, USA • Michael B Coleman, Columbus, USA • Mufi Hannemann, Honolulu, USA • Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, USA • Willie W Herenton, Memphis, USA • Manny Diaz, Miami, USA • Raymond Thomas Rybak, Minneapolis, USA • Phil Gordon, Phoenix, USA LATIN AMERICA • Julio César Pereyra, Mayor of Florencio Varela, Argentina • José Fogaça, Porto Alegre, Brazil • Juan Contino Aslán, Havana, Cuba • Jaime Nebot, Guayaquil, Ecuador • Paco Moncayo, Quito, Ecuador • Salvador Gandara, Villa Nueva, Guatemala • Antonio Astiazaran, Guaymas, Mexico • Ernesto Gandara, Hermosillo, Mexico • Ricardo Ehrlich, Montevideo, Uruguay • Juan Barreto, Caracas, Venezuela • Leopoldo Eduardo López, Chacao, Venezuela ASIA • Han Zheng, Shanghai, China • Zhang Guangning, Guangzhou, China • C M Sheila Dikshit, Delhi, India • Fauzi Bowo, Jakarta, Indonesia • Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, Tehran, Iran • Tadatoshi Akiba, Hiroshima, Japan • Hiroshi Nakada, Yokohama, Japan • Marides Fernando, Marikina City, Philippines • Vladimir Gorodets, Novosibirsk, Russia • Park Wan-soo, Changwon City, South Korea • Kadir Topbas, Istanbul, Turkey EUROPE • Patrick Janssens, Antwerp, Belgium • Boiko Borisov, Sofia, Bulgaria • Eleni Mavrou, Nicosia, Cyprus • Bertrand Delanoë, Paris, France • Pierre Albertini, Rouen, France • Jens Böhrnsen, Bremen, Germany • Ulrich Maly, Nürnberg, Germany • Wolfgang Schuster, Stuttgart, Germany • Kyriakos Virvidakis, Chania, Greece • Sergio Cofferati, Bologna, Italy • Walter Veltroni, Rome, Italy • Rafal Dutkiewicz, Wroclaw, Poland • Rosa Aguilar, Cordoba, Spain • Göran Johansson, Gothenburg, Sweden • Elmar Ledergerber, Zurich, Switzerland |
