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Speakers at Cycle City Active City Manchester

Jesse Norman 

Parliamentry Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport

Jesse Norman MP was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Transport on 14 June 2017.

Jesse was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 18 July 2016 until 14 June 2017. He was elected as the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire in May 2010.

Julie Harrington 

CEO 
British Cycling

Julie Harrington was announced as British Cycling’s new chief executive in March 2017.

Before her current role, Julie amassed almost 15 years’ experience in senior leadership roles in a sports environment. In her former role as group operations director at the Football Association, Julie was responsible for running both Wembley Stadium and St George's Park, in addition to women's and development team games away from Wembley.

Julie, also a non-executive director of the British Horseracing Authority, joined the FA in 2011 as managing director of St George's Park, tasked with the final stage of construction and launch of a £100m elite training centre, home to the 24 England teams. She was also responsible for developing the strategy for the centre and its commercial performance against its business plan.

Since joining British Cycling, Julie has overseen the implementation of the organisation’s action plan following the Cycling Independent Review, as well as widespread changes to allow the governing body to comply with the government’s new Code for Sports Governance.

Chris Boardman MBE 

Cycling & Walking Commissioner
Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Chris Boardman was appointed as Greater Manchester’s first ever Cycling and Walking Commissioner in July 2017 by Mayor Andy Burnham. His report, Made to Move, published in December 2017, set out a 15 step plan to transform how people get around in the city region. 

He is one of the UK’s most prominent cycling and walking advocates and has been policy adviser to British Cycling since 2012.  

A former professional cyclist, Chris won a gold medal in the individual pursuit at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. He also broke the world hour record three times and has worn the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France. 

Chris launched his own range of bikes, BOARDMAN Bikes, in 2007 and is company chairman. He also worked as Head of Research and Development for the Great Britain Cycling Team from 2004 to 2012, including at the 2008 Beijing Games where the Olympic team won eight gold medals. 

Isabel Dedring

Global Transport Leader
Arup

Previously, Dedring served as the Mayor of London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, and the former Environment Advisor. As Deputy Mayor for Transport, she set policy and supervised transport programme delivery. The Mayor of London serves as Chair of Transport for London, and Dedring served as Deputy Chair.

Dedring previously worked as the Director of the Policy Unit at Transport for London where her work had a strong focus on climate change. Previous roles include Chief of Staff to London’s Transport Commissioner, four years at McKinsey & Company in London and two years running the inward investment team in Ernst and Young’s Kazakhstan office.

Dedring received her undergraduate education from Harvard University and has a law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a qualified U.S. lawyer. She speaks German, French and Russian.

Luke Harper

Head of British Cycling Partnership
HSBC UK

On 1 January 2017 HSBC UK became the lead partner of British Cycling. Luke is responsible for the partnership, and is working with British cycling to engage employees, customers and the wider society. Over the next eight years, together we want to invite families from across the UK to revisit the joys and benefits of getting on a bike – from the functional to fun.

Andy Burnham

Mayor
Greater Manchester 

Prior to his election in May 2017, Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009. In opposition, Andy has served as Shadow Education Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary. Andy lives in Leigh, Greater Manchester, with his wife and three children. He is a keen supporter of Everton FC.

Joe Irvin

Chief Executive
Living Streets

Joe Irvin has a wealth of experience in the public and third sectors. He joined Living Streets in 2014 from being CEO at NAVCA - a voluntary sector strategic partner of the Department of Health and the Office of Civil Society. Joe has also held senior roles in the Prime Minister’s office, and as special adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister.

Joe also worked for the RSPB following a number of years at the TGWU union and the TUC. In government he worked on the1998 integrated Transport White Paper, ‘right to roam’ legislation and Encouraging Walking guidelines for local authorities. He is an elected trustee of ACEVO and Voluntary Action Islington, a judge for the Guardian Charity Awards and Charity Times awards, and an advisory board member of Charityworks.

Dr Kevin Golding-Williams

Head of Cycling and Walking Policy
Department for Transport

Kevin leads on cycling and walking policy including the ongoing development of the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy and works with Departments across Government to support delivery of the Strategy. Previously, Kevin led the development of the first statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy. Prior to joining the Department Kevin delivered Living Streets public affairs functions in Wales and England as Head of Public Affairs.

Neil Taylor

Director
ITP 

Neil Taylor is Director at ITP and has over 14 years’ experience of transport planning and research project delivery.  Drawing on a degree in Human Geography, and deep understanding of social and behavioural research techniques, his professional interests include; transport policy and strategy, research, inclusive mobility for disabled and older people, active travel, and data-driven intelligent mobility.  Away from the office he can be found on a badminton court, riding his bike, or attempting ambitious DIY projects.  

Janet Atherton, OBE

Senior Advisor and Trustee
Public Health England And Cycling UK

Passionate about public health, Janet has extensive experience working as a Director of Public Health in both the NHS and local government. She was President of the Assocation of Directors of Public Health from 2012 to 2015, playing a leading role in the transition of public health from the NHS into local government during her presidency. She was awarded OBE for services to public health in 2015.  She has been a trustee of Cycling UK since January 2017 and, as a returner to cycling herself, is keen to ensure that more people from all backgrounds, particularly women, are enabled to get onto bikes and experience the myriad of benefits cycling brings to individuals and society.

Laura Hales

Head of Development, England
Cycling UK

Laura designs and delivers community cycling projects which contribute to making cycling a normal activity for everyone.

Laura is responsible for Cycling UK’s flagship programmes such as the Big Bike Revival, Community Cycle Clubs and Cycle for Health. All three contribute to key policy outcomes on improving health and well-being, reducing congestion and improving air quality. The Big Bike Revival for example inspired 21,000 people to do more exercise and 6,000 to become regular cyclists.

Julian Scriven 

Managing Director
nextbike UK

In addition to over 15 years Executive-level experience, Julian has over 25 years’ experience in member and subscription based businesses across awide range of sectors, including several years in community focused organisations. Spending ten years in Amsterdam led Julian to view cycling as a means of transport, not a sport.  Julian brings a strong marketing focus to his team.

Marco Mulder

Transport planner
Arup

Marco joined Arup Amsterdam in 2014 and has worked on a great variety of traffic and transport related projects in the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Kazachstan and most recently in Ireland. He joined the Arup office in Dublin in November 2017. As a trained land use planner he sees placing transport and traffic in a wider (urban) context as a challenge. He has led projects regarding road design, traffic flows, alternative studies, municipal plans and cycling.
 
In recent years Marco has been involved in several projects relating to active modes in the City of Delft. These projects included a cycle parking strategy for the municipality of Delft, projects aimed at making the inner city of Delft more walking friendly and most recently a study to introduce measures to improve the accessibility of a neighbourhood. As the cycle expert of the transport planning team in Dublin Marco is currently involved in several projects, including the new Commuter Plan for the University College in Cork (UCC).

Suzanne Motherwell

Evalutaion Manager, Research & Monitoring Unit
Sustrans

Suzanne Motherwell is an Evaluation Manager in Sustrans’ Research and Monitoring Unit. Suzanne overseas all the monitoring and evaluation of programmes in Scotland. This includes projects focussing on schools, workplaces and communities. Suzanne’s background is in geography and is interested in the connections between spaces, people and places.

Nicola Kane 

Head of Strategic Planning and Research
Transport for Greater Manchester 

Nicola Kane is Head of Strategic Planning and Research at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and spends most of her time thinking about what the future might hold, as her team works to develop and deliver a new long-term transport strategy for Greater Manchester, covering the period to 2040. Nicola is a chartered town planner (MRTPI) and qualified transport planning professional (TPP) and joined TfGM in 2014 after 15 years of working in consultancy. She has wide-ranging experience in transport strategy and policy development, development planning and travel behaviour change and is now enjoying the opportunity to help shape the future of transport in Greater Manchester. She was awarded Transport Planner of the Year 2017 by Transport Planning Society for her work in leading the development of the GM 2040 Transport Strategy.

John Bann

Cycling & Roadspace Transformation Manager 
Nottingham City Council

Worked in Transport Planning in Local Government for nearly 40 years with Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, York, Gateshead and Sheffield.  Currently client lead for delivery of Nottingham’s £6m LEP funded Cycle Ambition and £15m Citywide Roadspace Transformation Programmes.  Responsible for launching  Nottingham’s Cycling Vision in 2015 and  developing the City’s first Cycle Design Guide in January 2016. Leading on the delivery of the City’s first Cycle Superhighway.

Richard Leonard

Head of Road Safety, Safety, Engineering & Standards
Highways England

Richard is currently the Head of Road Safety for the Safer Roads Group within Highways England Professional and Technical Solutions Directorate which leads on a broad range of road safety areas including: the development of road safety strategy/policy; corresponding research and development; identification of safety investment programmes; technical standard development; and technical assurance.

He has over 15-years’ experience in transport planning and engineering developing and delivering complex and challenging projects/programmes and has a significant experience across a broad range of transport disciplines including: Transport Policy/Strategy; Road Safety; Development Control/Land Use Planning; Smarter Choices; Stakeholder Management/Communications; Highway Design; Transport Economics and Transport Modelling. He has previously worked in private sector consultancies and in local authorities within the West Midlands.

Irene McAleese

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer 
See.Sense

Irene is Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of cycling technology and data company, See.Sense. Irene leads the company's developing Smart Cities practice and brings years of consulting experience to the role, having led change and workforce transformation initiatives in transport, telecommunications, and resource industries around the world.  Irene is passionate about harnessing technology and data to create safer and smarter cities, and is the Winner of the NI Women in Business Award for Best Small Business.

Amanda Gregor 

Urban Designer
Witteveen + Bos 

Amanda is an Urban Designer at the Dutch engineering practice Witteveen+Bos UK Ltd. She is part of the resilient infrastructure team with a focus on walking and cycling projects. Amanda was part of the team to help the Highland Council win funding for the Inverness Active Travel Network as part of the Community Links PLUS funding. She also works with Virtual Reality to use it as a tool for stakeholder engagement in cycling projects in London and Inverness. 

Pete Zanzottera

Sustainable Transport Consultant
Balanceability 

Pete Z has worked on cycling projects for over 20 years in both public and private sector. He is now self-employed and continues to work and campaign for liveable cities and neighbourhoods. His groundbreaking work on physical literacy for early years children has involved putting balance bikes and trained staff in nurseries and schools and is proving to bring forward physical development and the age children learn to cycle. 

Pete also continues to facilitate meetings and speak at conferences; he also works on a number of national and international programmes. He is currently an advisor for the Bike+ Shared Electric Bike programme and sits on the CityConnect Advisory Group in his home region of West Yorkshire.

Alexis Letters-Haydock

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Coordinator
East Sussex County Council

Alexis’ role involves supporting the coordination of the Nursery Transformation Programme (NTP); an ambitious county-wide initiative focused on tackling childhood obesity. She works directly with early years settings, supporting them to assess and enhance their provision of healthy eating/physical activity as part of a whole settings approach. She is an accredited Balanceability instructor and as part of the programme has delivered the train-the-trainer, learn-to-cycle Balanceabilty programme to over 250 early years practitioners, enabling them to deliver the Balanceability programme with children and families at their setting. She is also a qualified dietitian and has a Bachelor of Science degree specialising in exercise and cardiovascular physiology.

Gillian Scotford

Co-Founder
Access for All UK

Gillian is a professional access consultant, public-speaker, trainer and adviser on accessible tourism as well as an inspirational charity founder, fundraiser and published tourism author with an unrivalled insight into all aspects of disability gained as a highly experienced and compassionate medical professional with over 25 years experience. This includes experience on the Sheffield Spinal Injuries Unit together with 10 years working as a District Nursing Sister in the Peak District.

Jane Cooper

Co-Founder
Access for All UK 

Jane is a professional access consultant and a passionate and creative designer, presenter and facilitator of targeted and effective training and development interventions.

She is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) with a successful track-record of over 25 years professional experience in the fields of training and development, consultancy, communications, engagement and business development in major, blue-chip companies and the public-sector.

Andy Hollingsworth

Senior Advisor
Behavioural Insights Team

Andy is a Senior Advisor in BIT UK:North, based in Manchester. He works on a range of projects across local public services, focusing on the areas of skills and economic development, adult social care, and children’s services. Prior to joining BIT, Andy worked in local government, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor at the Society of Local Authority Chief Executive (Solace). He studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol.

Katie Edmondson

CCAG Communications and Engagement Lead​
West Yorkshire Combined Authroity 

Katie is the Communications and Engagement Lead for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s award winning £60m CityConnect Programme. The programme is delivering high quality cycling infrastructure across the Leeds City Region, including the largest segregated cycle route in the country, the Leeds - Bradford Cycle Superhighway.

Embedded within the programme are behaviour change initiatives, to achieve the objective of making journeys by bike, or on foot, for the natural and easy choice. By integrating targeted interventions with the building of high quality infrastructure, the Combined Authority, with partner councils in West Yorkshire and York, are aiming to deliver a real step change in how people can travel sustainably across the region.”

Fleur Ammerlaan 

Project Coordinator
Love to Ride

Fleur helps to deliver behaviour change projects here in the UK and globally to get more people riding bikes, more often. Fleur leads on research and evaluation at Love to Ride; reporting the successful results of Love to Ride programmes from across the world.  With a background in Geography and Environmental Management, she has a particular interest in using behaviour change techniques to encourage individuals to live a more sustainable, healthier and happier lifestyle.

Hannah Dayan 

Cycling Charter Coordinator
West Midlands Combined Authority 

Hannah has been cycling for over 20 years, having raced mountain bike for 5 years in Canada before moving to the UK in 2014. She has been working at TfWM for the last two years, coordinating the Cycling Charter Steering Group and Action Plan. She also leads on the West Midlands Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans and the West Midlands Cycle Design Guidance. Hannah likes to walk the talk, or, pedal the bike, and commutes to work by cycle or public transport.

Brian Deegan 

Consultant 
Transport for West Midland 

Brian is one of the UK’s leading street design engineers and was co-author of the London Cycling Design Standards. With a background in engineering, he has also led high-profile policy and planning projects. He helped develop Transport for London’s Healthy Street Check, a key tool in designing for ‘Healthy Streets’, and helped ensure the design quality of all projects associated with the London Mayor’s £1billion Cycling and Healthy Streets programme. As a design engineer for Camden Council, Brian introduced the UK to ‘light segregation’ for cycling, and subsequently assisted TfL in the testing of innovative approaches to cycling-friendly signalised junction design, such as ‘hold the left’, two-stage right turns and early release.

As a street design all-rounder, Brian has experience tackling the many and varied demands placed on complex urban streets and spaces: from design engineering, traffic modelling and network strategies through to conducting research to the highest industry standards. He is helpful and pragmatic, and passionate about making better streets.

Paul Osborne

Associate
SYSTRA

Paul Osborne has developed and managed walking and cycling projects for most of his working life. He has helped write national school travel policy and plans through to local authority cycling strategies and implementation plans. He has a passion for involving people in changing the way they live and travel. 

Reggie Tricker

Senior Transport Planner
Arup

Reggie is an active travel specialist within Arup’s consulting team in Scotland and North East England, covering projects within the region, UK and internationally. Reggie has led technical work auditing and planning active travel networks in 13 town and city areas in Scotland, and is currently developing the Active Travel Strategy for the Western Isles of Scotland as well as advising clients such as Durham University on active travel infrastructure design.

Reggie has an interest and passion for public sector projects having spent ten years of his career working for local authorities in Somerset and Edinburgh. Reggie brings insights and an understanding of the challenges faced within local authorities in their delivery of high quality walking and cycling projects.

Reggie travelled across Europe as part of the EU CHAMP best practice cycling demonstration project, and developed Edinburgh’s Active Travel Marketing Strategy. Reggie is a keen proponent of electric bikes and is gradually becoming a modern day cycle tourist as well as an everyday ebike commuter.

Dr Ben Spencer 

Research Fellow
Oxford Brookes University 

Ben is a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University in the UK currently working on the Healthy Urban Mobility research project (www.hum-mus.org) in partnership with Universities in Brazil. He has a background in urban design, community development and lifelong learning and a particular interest in the use of mixed-methods and ensuring research impact. Ben’s research work has focused on gerontology, mobility, health and wellbeing and designing healthy environments, including facilitating playfulness for all ages. His PhD examined the potential for creating Playful public places for later life and he used innovative mobile methods to understand older people’s experience of cycling in Oxford as part of the recent cycle BOOM research project (www.cycleboom.org).

Becki Cox

Principal Technical Advisor
Living Streets

Becki has worked in a variety of different roles, mostly with local authorities and not-for-profit organisations. With a background in Psychology and Urban Planning, she spent a couple of years developing her experience in planning policy at Great Yarmouth Borough Council and then Birmingham City Council before coming to Living Streets as their Principal Technical Advisor. Becki worked previously on the STDEP programme providing advice to LEPs on active travel interventions and is currently managing Living Streets’ involvement with the LCWIP project via a consortium of active travel organisations.

Becki has a particular interest in sustainability, equality, design, active travel, working with community groups and the interesting spaces where these aspects meet. She has also developed a very niche interest in pavements!

Jess Read

Principal Transport Engineer, Resilient Infrastructure Unit
Witteveen+Bos UK 

Jess Read has over 15 years experience delivering walking and cycling projects in places like Bristol, London, Copenhagen, Oslo and Portland, Oregon. She recently led the “iWalk - innovations in inclusive walking” project based in Bristol City Council. Her focus is inclusive walking and cycling standards.

Jess was the technical project manager for the award-winning Copenhagen Blue-Green Infrastructure Masterplan, which through an innovative co-financing approach has liberated an additional £500m investment in walking, cycling and green infrastructure.

Martin Parretti

Principal Consultant
SYSTRA

Martin completed a PhD in computational chemistry, in 2001.  After leaving university he dropped the chemistry, but carried on working in software. He then worked for a number of companies developing web-mapping and logistics solutions, before co-founding the start-up walkit.com – a walking journey planner for towns and cities. 

Over the years, Martin has developed a number of novel software solutions related to walking journey planning and understanding walking networks.  He has worked extensively with spatial data – developing tools to capture it, refine it, process it and use it, and during the same time, has developed a very keen interest in the many issues walking relates to. 

Martin joined SYSTRA in August 2016, as part of the Movement and Place team, where he is applying his experience to understanding issues around how and why people walk around their towns and cities.

Simon Pratt

Head of Network Development
Sustrans 

Simon is responsible for the delivery of all of Sustrans’ built environment projects in the South and assists colleagues and partners with practical advice and support. He manages an experienced team of six staff, in partnership with local authorities and other organisations across the region. He project managed all the lottery funded Connect2 schemes in the South East, and a number of Links to Communities schemes. Simon has managed many miles of path construction work in the area - notably the Basingstoke Canal towpath in Woking, and the Egrets Way between Lewes and Newhaven. In recent years he has led Sustrans work on cycling strategies and urban cycle network design.

Chris Carter

Head of Transport Strategy
Nottingham City Council

Chris has 25 years of local government experience, starting out as a transport planner on the Nottingham tram project for Nottinghamshire County Council before transferring to Nottingham City Council in 1998.

He is responsible for the preparation of Nottingham's statutory Local Transport Plan and for the development of the local transport programme including D2N2 Growth Fund major projects.
 
Projects he has contributed to include Nottingham’s innovative Workplace Parking Levy. He is inputting into the development of the Midlands Connect Strategy as well as ensuring the East Midlands HS2 Hub Station will be properly connected to the local transport network. He is also working to make Nottingham more cycle friendly and overseeing the City’s behaviour change and Go Ultra Low programmes.

Martin Gibbs

Chief Executive 2013-2017
Union Cycliste Internationale 

Martin is a life long cyclist and prior to his time as Chief Executive of the UCI, the international cycling federation based in Switzerland, he was a director at British Cycling where he led their move into campaigning on issues such as road safety, in partnership with Britain's other cycling organisations. 

Rosslyn Colderley

Director
Sustrans

Rosslyn is leading a fantastic team in the North of England as we consolidate and focus on the unique difference our organisation makes in the world. 

The team looks after hundreds of miles of cycleways, bridleways and footpaths, delivers life changing cycling and walking projects, and advocates for the choice to travel by foot, bike or public transport for everyday journeys.  Rosslyn has a background in fundraising and environmental conservation, with over twenty years’ experience of leading, inspiring and motivating teams to achieve outstanding results. 

She loves audacious development projects – including a Victorian Boat Lift restoration in Northwich, a floating visitor centre at Brockholes Nature Reserve near Preston and now the redevelopment of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton where she is a Board Member.

Martin Lucas-Smith

Webmaster
Cycle Streets

Martin Lucas-Smith is a Developer at CycleStreets, who run the UK-wide cycle journey planner website, CycleStreets.net, enabling people to plan cycle journeys from A-B and providing tools for Local Authorities and cycling advocacy groups. CycleStreets' routing aims to emulate as closely as possible the behaviour of real cyclists, is used in a range of websites and apps (e.g. Citymapper), by consultancy companies, and in research projects like the DfT-backed Propensity to Cycle Tool (PCT) and the new Cycling Infrastructure Prioritisation Toolkit (CyIPT). CycleStreets have been working on Bikedata, a new tool providing open access to open data for cycling.

Alex Longdon 

Principal City Planner
Transport for London 

Alex Longdon is a Principal City Planner in Transport for London’s Active Travel & Health team, who work to enable more people to walk, cycle and use public transport by putting people and their health at the heart of policy and decision making. Alex’s work focuses on policy and strategy for cycling, including helping develop the Strategic Cycling Analysis published by TfL in July 2017.

Steve Essex

Partner
Transport Initiatives

Steve Essex is a bit of a planner and a fair amount of traffic engineer. He is a member of the sustainable transport consultancy Transport Initiatives and pretends to be a research student with Heriot Watt University. He has worked with cycling for most of his professional career with special interests in accessibility, cycle scheme design, highway safety and understanding why people crash. He enjoys innovation and over the years has worked on things such as tactile markings, contra-flow cycling and audit techniques and he contributed to the DfT’s Local Transport Note “Cycle Infrastructure Design”, cycle parking guidance for a consortium of local authorities, and the Rail Delivery Group’s Cycle-Rail toolkit.

Phil Havenhand

Growth Deal Programme Manager
Transport for Greater Manchester

Phil is TfGM’s Growth Deal Programme Manager, responsible for Greater Manchester's £350 million Growth Deal Programme which is being delivered in partnership with the ten Greater Manchester Local Authorities. With a background in civil engineering and project management, he has over 25 years’ experience of delivering Bus Priority, Cycling, Highway and Local Safety Schemes in partnership with key stakeholders.

This included the £54 million Greater Manchester Cross City Bus Package, incorporating the flagship Oxford Road bus priority and segregated cycling scheme. The Oxford Road scheme involved working closely with the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester City Council to design and deliver a scheme that reallocated roadspace to provide benefits for pedestrians, cyclists and bus passengers. Daily cycling trips have now more than doubled through the introduction of the kerb segregated cycle lanes on the Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road corridor.

Rory McMullan

Road Danger Reduction and Behaviour Change Manager
City of London Corporation

Rory leads the RDR and Behaviour Change team at the City. Our objective is to meet the Mayor of London’s aspiration for a City that feels safe and is safe for people who choose to walk and cycle. The draft RDR and Active Travel Strategy lays out ten steps to achieve this, including temporary closures and tactical urbanist interventions, and the development of an Active City Network of employers in the Square Mile to work together to achieve better comfort and safety for active travel.

Rory has worked at quite a few places during his life, buy me a drink over the course of the event if you want to know more.

Amy Turner

Programme Development Officer 
Merseytravel

Amy is a Programme Development Officer in the Local Transport Plan Development Team at Merseytravel, the Executive body that provides professional, strategic and operational transport advice to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.  In her four years at Merseytravel, Amy has worked on a variety of transport projects at bid, business case and delivery stage.  Recent projects include; programme management of the Sustainable Transport Enhancements Package, a City Region wide programme of Walking, Cycling and Public Realm infrastructure investment; and also collaboration with Liverpool City Region Bus Operators to secure funding to introduce low emission buses in the region.

Ringo Chan

Ringo has a strong interest in integrated transport that enable people to travel conveniently in more sustainable and healthier lifestyles.

He is a Chartered Transport Planner with ten years of experience in transport modelling and data analytics. In 2015, he led an award winning study which used innovative data analytics to evaluate various corridor options and improvement interventions to improve sustainable access into Newport City Centre. More recently, he has been involved in the route planning and the design of major walking and cycling infrastructure, particularly in the South Wales area where there is a strong upward trend for cycling. 

Michael Corden

Head of Training
Cycle Confident

Michael is Head of Training for Cycle Confident and BikeRight!. A six-year National Standards Instructor Trainer, he oversees Be Confident Group's instructor training quality assurance program and is the main liaison with other UK cycle training organisations.

He sits on the Bikeability Trust Sounding Board, Instructor Training Organisation (ITO) group, is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (APPCG) and is a British Cycling Level 2 Coach. A lifelong cyclist, Michael volunteers at Herne Hill Velodrome and works with Herne Hill Youth Cycling Club. Off the bike, Michael plays bass guitar in a band.

Caroline Bloomfield

Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement Manager
Northern Ireland Public Health Agency 

Caroline Bloomfield has been working for the Public Health Agency Northern Ireland since 2010 as a Health and Social Wellbeing Improvement Senior Manager, and since 2016 has been Regional Lead for Obesity Prevention. Caroline has been responsible for leading the development of active travel as an area of focus within PHA and has introduced a suite of programmes focusing on schools, workplaces and communities. Caroline is passionate about cycling and uses her bicycle most days, now clocking up more miles per year on her bike than in her car.

Rabina Nawaz

Stakeholder and Engagement Lead
Department for Transport

Rabina Nawaz joined DfT in 2014 as a senior policy official, an currently leads on the day-to-day management and policy development of Local Cycling Walking Infrastructure Plans. Rabina is a results-driven, strategy-focused, experienced individual in policy and project delivery, with 15+ years’ experience working in government departments including DECC and Defra, and has worked with local authorities across England on numerous EU programmes such as DBES / XAP (during the British beef ban) and EU Emissions Trading System. In recent years, she has become experienced in developing and managing revenue- funded programmes, having worked on the LSTF, Sustainable Travel Transition Year and Access Fund initiatives.

Erik Tetteroo

Consultant
APPM

APPM specialises in urban planning and bicycle-inclusive mobility. Erik studied Architecture and Master City Developer at Technical University of Delft and developed the concept of HOD during his studies, based on the urban planning characteristics of the bike-train system. HOD is the Dutch style TOD, in which the scope of the bicycle determines development opportunities. Erik operates on various topics such as urban design, mobility and infrastructure, in the Netherlands and abroad. He is the senior cycling policy advisor for the Ministry of Transport & the Environment in the Netherlands, and from that role secretary for the Tour de Force, a joint initiative of the governments for increasing bicycle use. The purpose of the Tour de Force is to invest more attention, priority, and money in bicycle policy, considering the great social benefits. Erik is involved in the Dutch Cycling Embassy as the representative for the UK. He has organized ThinkBike Workshops in cities like Miami, Denver, Berlin, London, Cambridge, Helsinki, Göteborg, Colorado University, etc. Last but not least, Erik is an avid cyclist and mountainbiker.

Nigel Wilkinson 

Technical Director
WSP

Nigel has over 18 years’ wide-ranging experience in the management and delivery of transport planning and traffic engineering projects and currently holds a senior managerial position within WSP. He has managed projects through all stages of delivery, from feasibility through to implementation and has technical knowledge of all aspects of urban highway and traffic engineering, with specific recent expertise in cycling, public realm and bus priority schemes. He is an experienced Project Director, Project Manager and a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

More recently he has been supporting the development of key national strategies and policies, specifically with respect to cycling and walking, including the development of DfTs new Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans guidance and working with Highways England to develop their cycling and accessibility strategies. Currently Nigel is the Project Manager for the DfT LCWIP Technical Support Commission and is also Project Director for the DfT contract to refresh LTN 02/08 Local Transport Note Cycling Infrastructure Design.

Adrian Lord

Associate Director
Phil Jones Associates

Adrian is a member of the DfT cycle proofing working group and is retained as infrastructure advisor to British Cycling. He acts as technical lead for all the work PJA carries out in the design of cycle infrastructure, and the development of cycle strategies.

Graeme Brown

Strategy Officer (Sustainable Transport)
Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership

Graeme has worked within the sustainability sector for many years helping take forward various initiatives around domestic energy management and sustainable & active travel. Graeme was the Team Manager for Eaga Partnership delivering the Central Heating Programme and Warm Deal Scheme in Scotland, which looked to reduce fuel poverty and household emissions. Graeme then moved to Sustrans Scotland, where he was part of the team that developed initiatives like the Community Links Programme which continues to attract increased investment into active travel infrastructure projects from the Scottish Government and Local Authorities. After a short career break, Graeme had two short term appointments with Zero Waste Scotland where he focused on resource efficiency for Scottish SMEs and the National Entitlement Card Programme Office looking at smart ticketing, mobility as a service and improved access to services. Graeme now helps to take forward the various initiatives around Sustainable and Active Travel in the region.

Mark Osborne 

Principal Transport Officer (Policy) 
St. Helens Council 

Mark is the Transport Policy Officer for St Helens Council, and has worked in Transport Planning for 15 years working in the public and private sector including 8 years at consultants Mott MacDonald.  He has degrees in Transport and Transport Engineering and Planning.  He is actively involved with the Transport Planning Society in the North West of England and is a Chartered Transport Planner. His specialism are transport policy and strategy, transport within the Liverpool City Region and cycling development in the UK.

Jack Windle

Senior Projects Manager
Love to Ride

Jack delivers behaviour change programmes across the UK to get more people on bikes. Over the last year he has collaborated with NUS Sustainability and the Environmental Association of Universities & Colleges on the DfT Innovation Challenge-Funded UniCycle pilot to get more students and staff cycling in Higher Education.

Martyn Crawford

Associate Director
WSP

Martyn is a Chartered Engineer currently responsible for the refresh of LTN 2/08 Cycling Infrastructure Design for DfT. This is one of several cycling and sustainable transport research projects he has run, drawing on his civil engineering experience designing cycling, highway and development infrastructure. His other focus at WSP is on the company’s UK corporate responsibility and charities support, and on sustainability in projects – particularly WSP’s leading Future Ready innovation programme.

Xavier Brice

CEO
Sustrans

Xavier has a wealth of experience in public transport, working for the past ten years in a number of roles for Transport for London. This most recently involves leading the Fit for the Future Stations programme, the biggest change to London Underground for a generation.

He also designed a new cycling strategy for London, which led to the introduction of the Cycle Superhighways and Cycle Hire Scheme.

Passionately committed to sustainable transport Xavier is a lifelong cyclist and public-transport aficionado. He is a long-term Sustrans supporter with a garage full of bikes of various shapes and sizes.

Phil Jones

Chairman
Phil Jones Associates Limited

Phil is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the planning and design of development and transport infrastructure, with a particular expertise in cycling and walking.  He was part of the team that produced Manual for Streets and Manual for Streets 2, and has also worked on research and guidance into Shared Space for DfT and CIHT.   Phil chaired the steering group and acted as editor for the Welsh Government’s Active Travel Design Guidance, which supports the Wales Active Travel Act.  He established the concept of Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans for DfT and is a member of DfT’s Cycle Proofing Working Group.  Phil has provided design skills training for TfL, Urban Design Group London and many local authorities, particular on designing for cycling.   He is a member of numerous Design Review Panels, including Highways England, Northern Ireland Ministerial Advisory Group, Transport for London, Design South-East and Cambridgeshire County Council.

Stuart Edwards

Stakeholder Manager
Transport Focus

Stuart has over 16 years’ experience working in the transport industry and has an extensive background in commercial aviation, strategic highways operations and rail passenger advocacy. He has a keen interest in improving transport systems by understanding the needs of users, so delivering better journey experiences. Since joining Transport Focus in 2012, Stuart has promoted the interests of transport users and leads the organisation’s work representing cyclists, pedestrians and equestrians throughout Highways England’s network. He also leads work on behalf of transport users with Highways England in their Yorkshire, North East and Midlands regions. Stuart is an extensive user of the National Rail and Strategic Road Networks and, outside of work, he can often be found indulging in his love for the outdoors as well as volunteering in his role as a walk leader for the Ramblers.

Graham Walmsley

Local Transport Evaluation, Economics of Regional and Local Transport
Department for Transport 

Graham Walmsley is a researcher working for the Department for Transport, who has recently been responsible for publishing the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF) findings. He also works with various other Local Authority transport projects, including the evaluation of Local Growth Fund and Local Major Schemes. He has previously worked for HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Jennifer Wiles

Regional Director (North)
Living Streets

Jenny is the Regional Director (North), for the national charity for everyday walking, Living Streets. She currently leads a team delivering projects in schools, workplaces and communities across the north of England, develops strategic partnerships and influences policy and investment in the walking agenda. Jenny also provides strategic walking advice to Chris Boardman, Greater Manchester’s Cycling and Walking Commissioner, contributing to the development and delivery of his Made to Move vision for cycling and walking. In her ‘spare time’ she is studying for a MSc Future Cities at Northumbria University.  A qualified teacher, Jenny has extensive experience in developing and delivering training and workshops to anyone from primary school pupils to teachers and professionals. She is an experienced project manager with a broad range of public and voluntary sector experience.

Kevin McCann

Head of Partnerships, England North
Sustrans

Kevin joined Sustrans in 2016 but has worked in the industry for over a decade. He has a wealth of experience which bridges behaviour change programmes, infrastructure development, and stakeholder engagement.

Kevin is responsible for coordinating the strategic support element of the LCWIP programme for Sustrans, on behalf of the Strategic Consortium appointed by DfT, across the North of England. Working alongside technical consultants, he engages with a number of Local Authorities and Combined Authorities supporting them to make the strategic case when implementing their LCWIPs. This involves engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, from portfolio holders, key decision makers, highway engineers and policy officers; and supporting them in the development and implementation of their LCWIP.

David Elston

Senior Research Officer 
Department for Transport 

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Antonia Roberts

Director (Bike Share) 
CoMoUK

Antonia was part of the team which set up CoMoUK in 1999 and spent 10 years helping to nurture the newly emerging car club industry, developing the information programme and accreditation scheme amongst other projects. Antonia re-joined the organisation in 2015 to set up the sister arm Bikeplus to support the development of bike share and manage the Shared Electric Bike (EAPC) Programme. For intervening 5 years Antonia managed an Active Travel Project promoting walking and cycling in Leeds for Sustrans.

Antonia has 18 years’ experience working in the field of sustainable transport and previously worked in marketing for Oxfam.

Eduin Boater-Latimer

Assistant Economist
Department for Transport

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Tim Burns

Senior Policy and Partnerships Advisor
Sustrans

Tim works across UK-wide policy at Sustrans. He is also the Strategic Lead for Bike Life, the UK’s largest assessment of cycling development in cities. Tim has over 15 years’ experience working in the third sector on a wide-variety of social and environmental issues. Tim has worked across education, community and business engagement, research, social-innovation and policy. Tim’s interests lie in how we can evidence to influence political support to increase active travel in cities.

Catherine Mottram

Principal Research Officer
Department for Transport 

Catherine Mottram joined the Department for Transport (DfT) in October 2016 to provide dedicated social research support to the Road User Safety Policy team led by Jessica Matthew. Catherine is leading on the analytical input to delivery of the Road Safety Statement. This includes a large scale research project to evaluate interventions to improve novice and young driver safety.

Catherine is a member of the Government Social Research Service and worked at the Ministry of Justice and Department for Culture, Media and Sport before joining DfT. Prior to this she worked for a number of private sector research agencies, largely delivering research for public sector clients.

Tim Steiner 

Projects Director 
SYSTRA

Passionate about creating a healthier and more inclusive transport system, Tim has led programmes that have engaged tens of thousands of people across the UK to encourage them to use active and sustainable travel modes.  He is an expert in the application of social marketing techniques to achieve transport change, and has recently co-authored the 'Behaviour Change: A Guide for Transport Practitioners' guide.

Rupert Furness 

Deputy Director, Active and Accessible Travel Division 
Department for Transport

Rupert Furness is the head of the Active and Accessible Travel team in the UK Department for Transport, where he is responsible for advising Ministers on policies to promote walking and cycling, as well as on how best to ensure that transport is genuinely accessible to all users. His previous posts in the Department for Transport have included heading the London Transport team; heading the Environment Strategy team; and managing the implementation of the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.  Before joining the DfT in 2003, he worked for a number of other Government Departments including the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Cabinet Office. 

Willem Snel

Director, Intelligent Mobility
&Morgen

Mobility will be the big game changer in cities and public spaces over the next decades, and cycling is an important part of that transition. From his background as landscape architect and masterplanner, Willem has worked on complex mobility and public space projects in The Netherlands, Taiwan, China, Chile and the UK. These projects varied from integrated urban planning visions for 2040 to design of new cycling routes. Furthermore he has experience in cycling encouragement (behavioural change). He works on creating new opportunities for cycling in the light of future developments in mobility, such as MaaS, Mobility Hubs and Autonomous Vehicles. His focus is always on how to create the most pleasant spaces for people in order to increase quality of life!

Mark Vincent 

Digital Strategy Manager
Diva Creative

Mark is the Digital Strategy Manager at Diva Creative and has been with the company for four years, having delivered a number of digitally focused campaigns and developing strategic approaches to reaching audiences through digital channels.

Mark specialises in social media marketing, following the fast-paced development of digital communications and innovations in digital technology. As an experienced marketer, Mark applies his thorough knowledge of traditional marketing to the digital landscape to create innovative and measureable campaigns.

Chris Slade 

Project Manager
CoMoUK

Chris played a key role in the development of the bike share side of CoMoUK and the delivery of several projects. He is currently working from Scotland growing Bikes for All in Glasgow – Europe’s first social inclusion bike share project, and the GO e-Bike project in South East region of Scotland as well as researching how shared mobility contributes to strategic policy objectives and encouraging healthy low carbon lifestyles.

Chris is a graduate of the Institute for Transport Studies in Leeds and the Institute de Géographie Alpine in Grenoble.

Chris is a graduate of the Institute for Transport Studies in Leeds and the Institute de Géographie Alpine in Grenoble. He enjoys the possibilities shared mobility has opened up – from discovering quiet corners of the Alps by 2+ car sharing to riding a Santander Cycles along the recently opened Cycle Superhighway on London’s Victoria Embankment.

Anna Craciun

Innovation and Strategy Officer​ 
Transport for Greater Manchester

Anna is a Transport Innovation and Strategy Officer at Transport for Greater Manchester. Anna has a background in Spatial Data Analytics within the Transport Planning field. Anna is the project manager within TFGM for Project Synergy, a connected autonomous vehicle trial due to go live in autumn this year. Anna also works on active travel funded projects and is working on developing a better understanding which bike sharing commercial models are best suited within the Greater Manchester transport ‘ecosystem’ and will support the 2040 Transport Strategy.

Kelly Watson

Social Value Consultant
Arup 

Kelly is a sustainability, social value and wellbeing consultant in Arup’s North West and Yorkshire Civil Engineering group. She also works as a Research Associate in the Manchester Urban Institute at the University of Manchester. She has over six years of combined industry and academic research experience in the development and application of social value methodologies to the built environment.

Kelly joined Arup part-time for a year in 2011, before undertaking a PhD at the University of Manchester, co-supervised by Arup Buildings NW&Y. Recent post-doctoral research has included several Arup-supported projects to develop wellbeing valuation approaches in cities.

Angela van der Kloof

Project Leader
Mobycon

Angela is focused on stimulating behaviour change in mobility patterns. She enjoys challenging people to think differently, as she learned to do more than 20 years ago when she began teaching immigrant women to cycle. Understanding the fundamental way mobility affected the lives of the women she was teaching, Angela began to see the bike as a tool to stimulate participation and interaction in society and create an environment that is social and accessible for all. 

Gwenda Zuurbier

Senior Policy Advisor 
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning & the Environment

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Guy Boulby 

Head of Cycling and Walking
Department for Transport 

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Pete Stringer 

GI Planning & Technical Manager 
City of Trees 

Pete has a wide range of experience in Green Infrastructure planning, delivery and research. Graduating from the University of Manchester in 1995 with in an MA in Town Planning Pete worked at Manchester City Council in Development Control and Environmental Planning until 2000. In 2000 he was employed by Groundwork Manchester as Programme Manager overseeing a range of environmental regeneration projects in South Manchester. He was appointed by Red Rose Forest in 2001 to manage the now nationally recognised Green Streets project which uses Green Infrastructure as a vehicle for engaging and regenerating areas of social deprivation and environmental inequity. Since 2009 Pete has delivered a host of innovative Green Infrastructure projects in Manchester City Centre and Salford which demonstrate best practice in GI design and the ability to deliver GI in difficult circumstances. An important part of Pete’s work is to facilitate research collaborations with Universities in Greater Manchester, such as the i-trees and Howard Street projects to help provide the key evidence needed for demonstrating the role that GI plays in Climate Change adaptation and social benefit. Pete is also responsible for developing GI plans that provide a strategic focus for where GI is most needed to address specific needs such as climate change adaptation and improving air quality

Jessica Herbert 

Safe & Sustainable Travel Manager 
Leicestershire County Council 

Jessica has been working for Leicestershire County Council for five years, managing sustainable travel projects through the LSTF, Access Fund, planning polices and coordinating the LCWIP Project.

Andy Howard 

Planning & Delivery Officer (Cycling)
Transport for Greater Manchester

Andy Howard is Transport for Greater Manchester’s Cycle Infrastructure Officer. Andy’s role is to assist and support delivery partners in developing Cycle City Ambition Grant-funded routes to ensure the best possible infrastructure is provided for cyclists, including working with AECOM and District Authorities to develop the Greater Manchester Cycling Design Guide.

Matt McNulty 

Technical Design Authority, London Cycle Hire Scheme
Serco Integrated Services 

Matt is a qualified Civil Engineer with 30 years’ experience in the field of Traffic and Transportation.  Having spent 10 years working in the public sector prior to entering the private sector, Matt has a strong understanding of public/private partnership working and has successfully led a number of insourcing and outsourcing Partnering Contracts with Local Authorities. Matt has been part of the Leadership team of the London Cycle Hire Scheme since the initial design and build phase in 2009, and is now actively engaged in mobilising the Edinburgh Cycle Hire Scheme and developing Serco’s wider Smart Mobility business.

Gareth Morris

Co-founder and director
what if: projects

Gareth has considerable experience in the building industry and has been actively engaged in a broad range and scale of projects and completed building and public realm schemes in London. He led on the transformation of Rainham Station forecourt in Havering; the award-winning mini-Holland project series in Waltham Forest; and is currently leading on Castle Place Project, a community-led regeneration scheme at the Elephant and Castle.

Gareth studied architecture at Portsmouth Polytechnic and completed post-graduate studies at the University of East London. From 2005 to 2011 practice directors Gareth and Ulrike ran a degree studio at the School of Architecture, University of East London and are currently part-time lecturers at the Cass School of Architecture, London Metropolitan University where they run undergraduate design studio 8. In 2017 Gareth became a member of the Harrow Design Review Panel. what if: projects were recent winners of the Architect of the Year Awards 2018: Infrastructure.

Daniel Gipple

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BetterPoints

Dan is a co-founder of BetterPoints and is a social, sustainability and technology focused entrepreneur with over 25 years venture experience. He was also recently a sustainability venture incubator coach with the EU’s Climate KIC (Knowledge Innovation Community) and is also a director of a community housing trust. He has expertise in behavioural change and sustainability/climate related services and is a recognised motivational speaker. His goal is to deliver self-sustaining, easily-replicable social and sustainability ventures that motivate and enable people in communities anywhere to be able care for themselves, each other and their community better.

Paul Jackson

Divisional Business Development Director, Tracsis

Paul has more than 30 years’ experience of providing data solutions, training and advice throughout the UK, Europe, the Far and Middle East, Africa, Australia and North America. He has helped bring innovative solutions to transport data challenges including the application of vision-based sensors using machine learning techniques for the monitoring of pedestrian, cyclist and vehicle movements; bringing mobile phone network datasets integrated with layered transport intelligence to the transport planning, operations and events markets; the development and roll out of technologies and services for origin-destination and journey time studies of pedestrians and vehicles using Bluetooth and other advanced detection systems for transport, major events and planning projects.

Prior to joining Tracsis in 2007, Paul gained ten years’ experience of using transport data and a variety of modelling suites as a traffic modelling team leader with the Greater Manchester Transportation Unit and subsequently led the Transport Surveys Group for over 12 years. He has an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering from the Institute for Transport Studies University of Leeds, and regularly provides training to professionals in data collection techniques.
 

Tom Humphries

Transport Planner, Nottingham City Council

Tom is a transport planner with six years’ experience, and has been at Nottingham City Council since September 2015 working within the Cycling and Roadspace Transformation team. In this time he has been part of a team delivering the D2N2 LEP funded Nottingham Cycle City Ambition Programme, reviewing and updating the City’s Cycling Design Guide and securing further funding for walking and cycling projects within Nottingham.  Tom is also involved in the development of the LCWIP for the D2N2 region. Prior to joining Nottingham City Council, Tom worked for Derby City Council, TPi (now part of Amey) and is a graduate of the University of Leeds and the University of Manchester.