Co-founded in 2008, The Business of Cities is an urban intelligence firm working with more than 100 cities and companies worldwide each year. We are headquartered in central London, with partners and associates in four continents.

Our core mission is to partner the power of business with the magic of cities. Good urbanisation is the cradle of innovation, social connection, rich experience, and responsible stewardship of our planet. We support city leaders and urban investors to play their part, by providing them with the advice, the strategy, the benchmarks, the narrative and the global practice insights they need.

We help global businesses, providers of urban services, scale investors and asset owners to succeed in cities. We advise on how to look at urban markets, target the right cities, find the right partners, and build brand alliances. Companies we have worked with to do this include Microsoft, Capgemini, HSBC, Airbnb, Blackrock, JP Morgan and Siemens.

We support leaders in cities to amplify their strategy and design the right governance. We chair and convene advisory boards around cities' big questions. We supply a unique evidence base of global lessons to learn from. We work with cities across the spectrum, from Malmö to Mumbai, from Bogota to Brisbane.

We help decision-makers in the public and private sector to make sense of the impact of economic and technological change on their development imperatives and business models.