PATRICIA MCCARNEY
@wccitydata
Patricia McCarney is president and CEO of the World Council on City Data (WCCD) and is a professor of political science and the director of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has also served as associate vice president, international research and development, at the University of Toronto. Leading the WCCD, McCarney is building a globally standardized data base that invites cities to assemble data in conformity with ISO 37120. As host of this new knowledge platform, the WCCD is positioned to be the leading global city data base with standardized, verified, comparable, and open city data. McCarney is currently a member of the ISO Technical Committee 268, Sustainable Development in Communities, where she is chair of the Working Group on City Indicators. She was integral to the development of the newly published ISO 37120, the first international standard for cities. Under her leadership, this ISO Working Group is now building a family of three international standards on global city indicators for sustainable cities, resilient cities, and smart cities. Before joining the University of Toronto, between 1983 and 1994, McCarney worked as a professional staff member in a number of international agencies, including the World Bank in Washington and the United Nations – HABITAT in Nairobi. McCarney received her PhD from MIT in 1987.
