World Mayor Prize nominee Naheed Nenshi emerged from the 2013 Alberta floods with folk hero status, with friendly vandals taping his face onto Superman posters, fundraising t-shirts on sale with an illustration of the mayor wearing a scuba mask and “Keep calm and Nenshi on” posters displayed in residents’ windows.
Who will be crowned the world’s best mayor for 2014?
By Francisco Toro for The Guardian – Public Leaders Network. Published Tuesday 30 December 2014 10.06 EST.
Inspiring Leadership
To see Naheed Nenshi’s approach in action, a good place to start is 3thingsforcalgary.ca. The Canadian mayor’s flagship initiative asks Calgarians to think up three things – big or small – they can do for their community
Inspiring Civic Engagement
This viral model of civic engagement is at the centre of the mayor’s vision for strengthening Calgary’s social fibre. Born to South Asian immigrants from Tanzania, Nenshi became the first Muslim mayor of a major north American city in 2010. Famously approachable, compulsively communicative and a digital native, Nenshi ran an insurgent grassroots campaign that stunned Calgary’s political establishment, squeaking into office past more established political figures with just under 40% of the vote in a divided field.
Inspiring Example
Three years later, Nenshi was re-elected with a crushing 74% of the vote, after winning almost universal support for leading Calgary through one of its most difficult episodes of recent times: a catastrophic set of floods in June 2013 on the Elbow river that led to mandatory evacuation orders in 26 Calgary neighbourhoods. Nenshi rose to the occasion, leading flood recovery efforts from the front, comforting, coordinating and emoting in a display of hands-on government Calgarians would not soon forget.
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