Yadana Saw is an experienced broadcaster, radio producer, workshop facilitator and first-term regional councillor on the Greater Wellington Regional Council. She is passionate about transforming conversation and storytelling into clever ideas and meaningful action. Over the past 25 years her skills have contributed to a variety of initiatives across quality public education, welfare reform, youth participation, better urban design, healthy homes and ethnic representation. She mostly bikes everywhere and is an avid sports enthusiast who likes to play video games, cook food, and knit. She would be better at all these things if she spent less time scrolling on her phone.

After being on the 2Walk and Cycle committee for the last five conferences, Jillian has stepped up to be the conference convenor for 2024. She is a researcher at the University of Canterbury and is also a keen cyclist. In 2016, she completed a PhD on adolescents and cycling to school and is also a cycle advocate. She has completed numerous cycle touring trips with her family over the years and continues to dream up future trips.

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Janette Sadik-Khan is one of the world’s foremost authorities on transportation and urban transformation. She served as New York City’s transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, overseeing historic changes to the city’s streets—pedestrianizing Broadway in Times Square, building nearly 400 miles of bike lanes, seven rapid bus lines and creating more than 60 plazas citywide. A founding principal with Bloomberg Associates, she works with mayors around the world to reimagine and redesign their cities. She chairs the National Association of Transportation Officials/Global Designing Cities Initiative, implementing new, people-focused street design standards, which have been adopted in more than 150 cities across the United States and around the world.