Skye Duncan joined NACTO in 2014 to serve as the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies that has developed the award-winning Global Street Design Guide and its recent supplement, Designing Streets for Kids. In support of these resources, her and her team provide technical assistance to cities on street and public space design around the world. Currently her team is focusing on bringing the lessons and best practices from these global publications to help Bogotá in Colombia, São Paulo and Fortaleza in Brazil, Mumbai in India, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and Milan in Italy to shape safe and sustainable streets. Skye is an urban designer with over 15 years of experience in architecture, urban design, planning and landscape architecture, and comes to NACTO after 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.

Matt's formal qualifications are in sociology & civil engineering and he has worked in the transport advisory field for more than 20 years. Matt is a recognised expert in the use of artificial intelligence to reach out to individuals and communities, transforming public engagement and consultation.

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Thuong is highly motivated, open-minded, and goal-oriented professional engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience as a transport/traffic engineer. Her experience spread out on a variety of transport infrastructure projects (highway, airport, UMRT), from lead organiser on large scale baseline assessments (household surveys, international airport traffic surveys) to technical lead on several projects in New Zealand and South-East Asia.

Pauline started her career with Hastings District Council where she gained a valuable background in transportation. From there the transportation services department of the Council was transformed into a LATE and acquired by Montgomery Watson in 2000. Pauline has stayed with the different iterations of Montgomery Watson Harza, MWH and Stantec which has collated in a career that has lasted over 20 years with the same consultancy in the Hawkes Bay Region. In the last few years Pauline has migrated into developing walking and Cycling Strategy’s with Hastings District Council. This has involved consultation with different school within the region to develop travel journey’s and implement safer routes to school programmes. She enjoys assisting with events in the region such as the Bike wise week and ride to work week where she gets to work across all vested organisations: Hastings District Council, Hawkes Bay Regional Council and SportHB. Pauline undertakes crash reduction studies and implements improvements, manages cycleway construction such as the dual cycleway in Napier Road which is currently in construction, and the new cycleway on Te Ara Kahikatea that is now complete. This project included design and construction of the path and liaison with planting and artists as to the final holistic design. Pauline’s greatest strength is being able to communicate her ideas at the right frequency for the audience who is listening. She is compassionate and enthusiastic about making positive change for her community and it is this enthusiasm that has led to some great local projects.

Andy is a Technical Director at Beca Ltd with has 31 years’ experience in a wide variety of transport projects. He specialises in leading cycling and public transport infrastructure business cases and design projects. He is proud of his recent work leading the Beach Road cycleway and Nelson Street cycleway projects for Auckland Transport and preparing a business case for improving cycle facilities on Lake Road for Auckland Transport. In the late 1990's he undertook his most enjoyable and challenging cycling commission to design the pilot Quality Bus Corridor and Cycle Route on Malahide Road in Dublin, Ireland.

Mary O’Brien is the National Coordinator for CCS Disability Action Accessible Streets Audit and the Regional Access Coordinator for the Southern Region, CCS Disability Action. Mary coordinates the Accessible Streets Audit and liaises with local authorities to improve participation. Mary has a background in Occupational Health Nursing. She developed resources for primary care health professionals and implemented a brief intervention for smoking programme across a DHB. She has a Master of Health Science from the University of Otago. The Accessible Streets Audit contributes to improved participation by providing a link between transport engineering and accessibility. Footpath audit tools currently available to Road Controlling Authorities (RCA’s) provide limited useful information. Some identify access barriers but do not provide best practice engineering solutions, others use outdated standards which no longer meet increasing and changing access requirements. The Accessible Streets Audit was developed by CCS Disability Action, Transport Engineers and disabled people. It combines transport engineering expertise, the lived experience of disability and the principles of Universal Design.

Mohammad Lutfur Rahman is currently in the second year of his PhD research at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interests include adolescents’ active transport and urban design. His research focuses on modelling safe walking and cycling routes for adolescents in Dunedin, New Zealand. Mr. Rahman has recently completed his Master of Philosophy by research in Urban Transport Infrastructure Planning at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.

I’ve been involved in various aspects of local authority engineering in the Hawke’s Bay area for approximately 45 years. This involvement has included asset management, consulting and contracting roles. For the last 3 years I have worked in the “iWay” programme, Hastings District Council’s active transport initiative. My involvement includes infrastructural development and construction programmes, promotions, encouragement and education areas towards increasing the uptake of active travel options. I work closely with Sport Hawke’s Bay, who deliver our active travel skills education, particularly in our local schools. They also play a major role in the improvement and development of the programmes, and are behind some exciting innovations. It’s a great area to be involved with.

Kia ora, I'm Fran Rose and work at Sport Hawkes Bay as the Community Walking and Cycling Development Officer. I work closely with Hastings District Council to deliver cycling & scooter initiatives to the many primary and intermediate schools around the sunny Hawkes Bay. I've been an avid bike rider all my life having biked in many cities and towns across the North Island in my youth. More recently I was fortunate enough to spend close to a decade in Central Queensland, Australia enjoying the incredible pathways where at times the snakes and kangaroo's took precedence. I've proudly raised 2 beautiful children who are also enthusiastic riders. I'm passionate about the environment and I take any opportunity I can to get students out into their surroundings whether it be walking, biking or scootering to see, smell and hear for themselves the beauty that is nature.

Margaretha Liliana Situmorang started her PhD at the University of Otago as of February 2020. Her research examines transport modes to school and its association with food outlets and dietary behaviour among adolescents as part of the overall BEATS Natural Experiment Study. Margaretha previously completed her Master of Science in Architecture with specialisation in Sustainable Urban Design at Lund University, Sweden. She has professional experience working with Infrastructure Research Institute Indonesia and has performed some consultancy work for urban road safety and sustainable human settlements projects with several governmental institutions in Indonesia.