Jon is an award-winning transport design and engagement consultant. He specialises in active travel, community involvement in street design, kerbside management, shared and combined mobility. He is best known for his work with Waltham Forest on the delivery if the multi-award winning Mini-Holland programme but works on similar schemes with local authorities and communities throughout the country on similar schemes, including Liveable Neighbourhoods in London and the nationwide Transforming Cities Programme. Jon helped Waltham Forest develop their borough-wide design concept and successful £27 million bid, then subsequently the approach to engagement, design guide, cycling vision and behaviour change initiatives. Previously Jon was head of Sustainable Transport and Parking at a large consultancy, working on high-profile active travel projects including the Santander Cycle Hire Scheme and the Area Traffic Management Plans for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Jon formed his own consultancy Bespoke in 2014. Bespoke work with towns and cities throughout the UK on the development and delivery of a broad spectrum of active travel projects, including strategies, street design, liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods, and sustainable mobility options for urban environments.

Alistair Woodward is a public health doctor and epidemiologist based at the University of Auckland. He has worked on road crash injury, transport-related air pollution, the co-benefits of smart climate policy, and health effects of physical activity. Recent projects include the future of the bicycle, street changes for greater safety and sustainability, and the mental health effects of transport systems.

Mr Christopher Te’o founded USO Bike Ride in 2011, a cycling whanau that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of communities, particularly Pasifika peoples, through cycling. Mr Teo’s efforts alongside others have seen USO Bike Ride become an affiliated club to Cycling NZ with over 300 members in NZ and overseas with members in Samoa, Cook Islands, Australia, Germany and the USA. In 2012 and 2016 he was part of the leadership team that led the USO Bike Ride Bluff 2 Cape New Zealand Cycle Ride in partnership with the Cancer Society of NZ, with whom they have a strong relationship with in promoting the message of health and wellbeing within Pasifika communities in NZ and abroad. Since 2011 Uso Bike have worked with the Samoan Cancer Society, the Samoan Ministry of Health and the WHO to complete 4 Health promotion awareness rides of the 2 main islands. In 2018, he and others supported the establishment of 3 NZTA Bikes in Schools programmes in Porirua East schools and other currently looking to support the establishment of other BIS programmes in this area. He is also an NZTA Pedal Ready Cycle Skills Instructor and has worked with the training of these students in cycle skills. Mr Teo is a founding trustee for Pacific Men’s Health Aotearoa Trust a collective of Pasifika groups in New Zealand dedicated to the promotion of better health and wellbeing outcomes for Pasifika men and their families.

Kirsty Wild is an environmental sociologist who works in public health. She is has a particular interest in cycling and how we can use transport interventions to make cities healthier, more sustainable and more pleasurable places to be.