Richard set up SmartSense to deliver the hard data needed to demonstrate that a project is producing the forecast outcomes. When not measuring pedestrian flows, dwell time and cycle flows he is to be found pedalling around the country and further afield. Back in 2019, the halcyon days in international travel, he cycled the Camino Trail in Portugal and Spain.

Jonathan is a walking and cycling advisor at Waka Kotahi, developing the New Zealand Cycling Network. Over the last 30 years he has collaborated with his brothers to write several cycling guidebooks, design and build shared paths and trails for various councils and in 2016 he created Tour Aotearoa, a 3000 kilometre bikepacking event from Cape Reinga to Bluff.

Celia is on the Boards of Te Araroa Trust and the Walking Access Commission.

Jonathan is a walking and cycling advisor at Waka Kotahi, developing the New Zealand Cycling Network. Over the last 30 years he has collaborated with his brothers to write several cycling guidebooks, design and build shared paths and trails for various councils and in 2016 he created Tour Aotearoa, a 3000 kilometre bikepacking event from Cape Reinga to Bluff.

Ms Celia Wade-Brown QSO was elected Mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 - 2016. She was a Councillor for fourteen years previously. Prior to local government, Celia was a programmer, teacher and IT analyst. Born in London, UK, she has worked in Europe, Africa and Australasia. Mayor Wade-Brown led the establishment of several regional entities but firmly resisted wholesale amalgamation. She strengthened business and cultural relationships between cities in Asia and Wellington. She was a founding member of the New Zealand Internet Society and also the founding Chair of the 2020Trust, which promotes digital literacy. In 2002 Ms Wade-Brown founded Living Streets Aotearoa and was inaugural President until 2009. Wellington became the first New Zealand Council to introduce a Living Wage and the goal of Predator Free Capital. Connecting walking access along Wellington’s wild South Coast, upgrading quirky laneways, installing signage for pedestrian shortcuts, initiating the world-first trans-gender traffic lights, increasing cycling facilities, reducing speed limits in suburban centres, resisting a flyover and supporting public transport have been integral to Ms Wade-Brown’s political career. She effectively recognised cultural diversity, adding Asian, African and European events to the city’s calendar. Ms Wade-Brown has been appointed to several international bodies: Biophilic Cities Network Advisory Board, Walk21 Foundation, and Commonwealth Foundation. Locally she’s on the boards of Living Streets Aotearoa, Te Araroa Trust, Predator Free Wellington Ltd and the Walking Access Commission among others. Now she works to restore biodiversity while sequestering carbon dioxide on a property in the Tararua foothills.. From time to time she teaches refugees in New Zealand. In 2017 Celia walked Te Araroa and in 2020 she’s cycled Tour Aotearoa, both traversing 3000 km.

NZCE (Civil), REA Bruce is a passionate Dunedinite. He is a practitioner and has over 40 years’ experience and many lessons learned in the transport sector under his belt (and a few grey hairs to prove it). He has gained his experience working throughout NZ and the Pacific. Bruce has been looking after the construction of the $70M Peninsula Road Improvement project. This experience has highlighted more than anything how what we build affects people’s lives and how they live.