Participant Feedback

“It was an enjoyable and interesting weekend and I feel very comfortable with the press release. To be honest, I was a bit worried that it would be a rather pompous and self-important group and was very pleasantly surprised.”

“An excellent weekend! Many thanks for inviting me to attend the Symposium. I enormously enjoyed it and learned a great deal. The final session was very promising in identifying clusters of topics for structuring a summary report. The subject of money was conspicuously absent in explicit form but obviously will crop up in the link between appropriate level of management and tax revenue and in the relations between public and private enterprise. I shall greatly look forward to seeing what your writing team makes of it all.”

“Thank you for the excellent organization of the Symposium. I am pleased that you thought my contribution useful.”

“Thanks for sharing this. I am sorry that I could not attend the whole symposium. It was certainly a stellar cast…I am a bit puzzled by the conclusions in the press release (not having been party to the discussion).”

“I enjoyed our symposium immensely, having learned a lot.”

“Congratulations again for another successful Symposium.”

“Thank you… You humble me. It is a pleasure working with you and I look forward to the exciting next steps.”

“I deeply enjoyed those days, the company of bright minds and intelligent discussions. I hope to be able to continue this collaboration.”

“It was indeed a great pleasure to return to Oxford and participate in the symposium. Once again, I would like to congratulate you for organizing a very productive meeting and bringing together an exceptional group of experts. The discussions were of high caliber and I left the EMS much enriched by the discussions and interactions.”

“I was honored to be part of the symposium… It was enriching and enlightening.  I enjoyed the conversations.  I hope to cultivate some meaningful partnerships and activities as a result of the process.”

“I enjoyed the symposium very much . Congratulations to you and your team!”

“I would like to add my congratulations with regards the initial success of the meeting (hopefully the follow through will provide further successes). Personally, I particularly appreciated the input from the mayors especially in terms of identifying very clearly the huge gap between their worldview and those of us in the business of producing evidence to support policy change. Much food for thought!”

“Thank you so much for inviting me to the symposium   I am so impressed at how you have put together this really outstanding initiative and brought together such a wide range of disciplines.   I personally found it very enlightening and educational and I greatly admire and support the aims. I had never really thought much about urbanization per se. So having the issues highlighted, in particular the speed and size of the change in emerging economies has changed my perspective.”

“You did a super job. I really enjoyed it. Many thanks for everything.”

“Thanks again for inviting me to the seminar and for the excellent logistics. This was a difficult topic, but highly topical too and I think we made some progress.”

“Thank you for the opportunity to participate at your symposium.  It was a great pleasure to meet you and all of the participants.”

“Thanks for the invitation and hospitality. I enjoyed the weekend of substantive discussion and learning, the meeting with old and new friends. Congratulations!”

“Thank you for inviting me to this interesting symposium, which gave me an opportunity to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and learn more about urban health issues.  I have been particularly interested to learn how Bogota has fared in terms of its development, and I keep finding that it has excelled in the past 10 to 15 years.”

“Thank you for inviting me to such a prestigious and informative event, I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent there.”

“Thank you so much for inviting me! The issues raised were very fascinating, and I am keen to know what you came up with as I was sorry I could not join on Sunday!”

“I just wanted to say congratulations on what was – from everything I saw – a hugely successful meeting. You really do a stunning job of (a) bringing together a fascinating group of people – and (b) preparing the themes in an excellent way. Thank you for including me!”