Mayor Marvin Rees to host Global city Mayors

It is a truly remarkable journey for Bristol City Mayor Marvin Rees. This working class descendent of an enslaved African, who now runs the city that is most infamously known for its enrichment from the slave trade, is today hosting the most ambitious conference ever for city Mayors across the globe.

Mayor Marvin will oversee a two day conference called the Global Parliament of Mayors, that is bold, ambitious, with a vision to unite city legislators to have a universal vision that confronts the challenges of poverty, inclusion, health and migration.

Speaking exclusively to OBV when this idea was first mooted over a year ago, Rees said:

I want to use this platform to bring people together, to ensure we can learn from legislators from every corner of the globe. I also want to put Bristol on the international map, this time for all the right reasons. And finally, I want to show humble leadership, the type that is able to listen, learn and act.”

100 Mayors and assistants are expected to be in Bristol for the next few days from Africa, Latin America, Europe, China, South East Asia and Australasia too.

We wish Mayor Marvin and his ambitious plan for progressive unity of leadership.

OBV will attend tomorrow.

Simon Woolley