Alec is a Partner at KPMG New Zealand, co-leading the firm’s Climate Change, Decarbonisation, ESG and Sustainability practice, and is also a lecturer in Sustainable Business at AUT University. As a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, Alec has focused his career on addressing the breadth of sustainability challenges and opportunities that are increasingly shaping our communities, society and economy. This has included a range of leaderships positions in academia, business and the public sector, most recently as Director of Sustainability at Kāinga Ora and leading the Chief Sustainability Office at Auckland Council through the development of Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate Plan. Malcolm is a Senior Analyst in the Deals Advisory Infrastructure team at KPMG New Zealand. Malcolm has diverse experience in transport planning & strategy, policy development, and transport and land-use integration. This experience includes advisory work across local and central government as well as to the private sector. Malcolm has a strong passion for creating change across transport and housing with a core focus on the climate and emissions reduction benefits.

As a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, Alec has focused his career on addressing the breadth of sustainability challenges and opportunities that are increasingly shaping our communities, society and economy. This has included a range of leaderships positions in academia, business and the public sector, alongside an active involvement in professional institutions, industry associations and networking groups. Through these roles, Alec has become well-practised in the identification of strategic and operational sustainability risks as well as the development and delivery of solutions to meet these challenges. Alec has successfully built and led numerous diverse, multi-disciplinary teams through a focus on common values, aligned purpose and trust. His work has ranged from the development of high-level regional strategies on climate change, liveability and wellbeing, incorporating broad stakeholder and community engagement, through to the design and delivery of specific interventions and the creation of impact measures to gauge their success. Alec’s diverse background means that he can couple an in-depth knowledge of organisational sustainability risks with an understanding of the operational contexts and behaviours that are present within complex organisations. In addition to these broad strategic and technical insights, his strengths include the core communication and interpersonal skills required to effectively engage and collaborate with the internal and external stakeholders that are critical to delivering long term transformation sustainability change.

Jacques is a transport planner residing in Tāmaki Makaurau. He has just started his career journey at AECOM as a graduate transport planner after 5 years of study in the urbanism space. For as long as he can remember Jacques has had a curiosity about cities, design and how societies function. One of his earliest memories is setting up VCRs on his bedroom floor in the shape of cities and placing match-box cars around them. As Jacques grew older, he quickly realised a career in urbanism was well suited for his interests and skills. Having recently completed a Master of Urban Design, Jacques has quickly developed a strong interest in how we can better integrate transport and land use development. These two professions can easily become siloed from one another, but to truly realise the city we desire it is pertinent we facilitate collaboration across the urbanism disciplines.

Marita is a landscape architect with a decade’s worth of experience in design planning, urban design, masterplanning, and public realm design. Marita works on urban design and transport strategy projects at MRCagney. She is interested in mode shift, sustainable transport, and the way good places can have a positive effect on people and communities.

Ruth is a Principal Advisor for urban mobility with Waka Kotahi. In this role, she has been working with councils across the South Island as a Relationship Lead for the Transport Choices package. Involved from the early concept of the programme to the implementation phase. Ruth previously worked with Christchurch City Council in strategic transport and planning. She is passionate about shaping our cities for a healthy, low carbon future.

Tobie is an accredited business case practitioner, project management professional (PMP) and a passionate traffic engineer / transport planner with 23 years’ experience in the built environment. He has been based in New Zealand since 2018.