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GILES PERKINS
Head of Profession - Future Mobility | WSP
Giles Perkins, FCILT leads WSP’s Future Mobility team in the UK and has over 34 years’ experience in the futures, transportation planning, digital and intelligent transport sectors. He has worked in the public and private sectors as a senior client and director level consultant and has led major projects across all modes. He has a detailed understanding of the strategic needs and opportunities surrounding the challenges that our networks, regions, towns, cities and rural communities face.
He is a recognised expert in the field of Future Mobility / Transport and Zero Emission Mobility having undertaken numerous cutting-edge commissions where his insight is helping to build ‘Future Ready’ thinking into strategies, policies and asset specifications. He is a strategic thinker with an in-depth appreciation of the challenges facing all modes of transport resulting from disruptors, both within the transportation realm and wider socio-economic changes which influence it.
Giles is the Programme Director for the £30m Live Labs 2 decarbonisation innovation programme in the UK, a Board member of the National Centre for Accessible Transport and Technical Lead for the delivery of Mobility as a Service in the West of England.
LUCY SAUNDERS
Director | Healthy Streets
Lucy Saunders is a unique combination of public health specialist, urbanist and transport planner. She created the Healthy Streets Approach, an evidence based- framework for decision making at every level. She works with organisations across the world adapting her Approach to each context.
The success of the Healthy Streets Approach is its wide-reaching resonance across political, special interest and professional divides. Lucy uses this Approach to engage, influence and coordinate a wide range of stakeholders around a coherent vision. She is a skilled and engaging presenter and teacher who has inspired and trained hundreds of practitioners, advocates and politicians around the world.
Lucy led the implementation of Healthy Streets in London, supporting the GLA, Transport for London, boroughs and advocacy organisations. Her highly influential work put health at the heart of city policy in London. Healthy Streets is the framework of the Mayor's 25 year Transport Strategy, a pillar of the London Plan and part of all the Mayor's statutory strategies. She used her strategic thinking and analytical skills to embed the Healthy Streets Approach in the governance of the E2.3b TfL Healthy Streets funding pot.
She develops bespoke tools to enable practitioners to apply the Healthy Streets Approach in horizon scanning, case making, design, implementation and evaluation.
She advises the World Health Organisation, UK Government Departments for Transport and Health, Faculty of Public Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. She has worked across a wide range of organisations from local to international level including NHS, government, academic, private and voluntary sector.
She gained Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health in 2012 on completion of the UK specialist medical training programme in Public Health. She has masters degrees in geography and public health.
SKYE DUNCAN
Executive Director | Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI)
Skye Duncan is the Executive Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI), a leading global urban design initiative focused on transforming streets around the world and developing international best-practice street design principles for use in a wide variety of street typologies.
Skye and her team developed the award-winning Global Street Design Guide (GSDG), working with input from experts from 72 cities and 42 countries, now translated into 5 languages and endorsed by over 100 cities, regions, and organizations across the world. The GSDG, alongside its recent supplements, Designing Streets for Kids, and other technical resources share evidence-based global best practices and offer leaders, practitioners, and communities a new blueprint for reimagining and redesigning urban streets. Skye and her team build from these resources as they provide technical assistance and capacity building to cities on shaping safe, healthy, and inclusive street design and sustainable mobility options, in countries across the globe, including Colombia, Brazil, Rwanda, and Ecuador, to India, Italy, Albania, and Ethiopia.
Skye is an urban designer with 20 years of experience in architecture, urban design, and planning, and prior to GDCI, she spent seven years working as a Senior Urban Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning in their Office of the Chief Urban Designer. There, she offered her design expertise to help shape sites of all scales across the city and collaborated with multiple agencies and organizations to make New York City a more sustainable, resilient, livable and healthy city. Skye contributed to the NYC DOT Street Design Manual and helped develop much of the Planning Department’s innovative work relating to public health and the built environment. She was a contributing author to the Active Design Guidelines (2010) and led a team to produce the well-received 2013 publication Shaping the Sidewalk Experience. In 2019, Skye was recognized as one of TUMI’s Remarkable Women in Transportation.
Skye has worked professionally as an International Urban Design Consultant in Brazil, Colombia, Canada and New Zealand, and was an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for seven years. She graduated as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia in the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design program and has a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
JULIE BALLANTYNE
Transport Leader | Stantec
Running the Transport team in Christchurch, Julie works to maintain market share as well as grow and improve what her team can offer. There are two benefits there—expanding what we can do for our clients and communities as well as finding new ways to make Stantec a fun and technically rewarding place to work. A strategic transport modeller by trade, Julie has over 30 years of experience building multi-modal transport models.
Recently, Julie has been starting conversations with transport modelling leaders around the world to discover what the other parts of Stantec’s business are delivering. She’s looking forward to collaborating across a large, multidisciplinary organisation to add value to all sorts of projects.
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