Peter is an urban and transport economist with over a decade of experience in economic policy, consultancy, and local government in New Zealand. His work has included developing business cases for new investments, applying innovative methods for valuing the benefits of transport investments, identifying practical responses to urban growth and change, and analysing the costs and benefits of alternative options for improving urban places.

Lewis Thorwaldson Lewis is a senior planner at MRCagney’s Auckland office providing public transport operations and strategy advice on projects throughout New Zealand and Australia. His experience includes public transit operations and network planning (MTA New York City Transit); traffic engineering consulting (USA); and graduate public and active transport research (USA). He is particularly fascinated by how human biases and heuristics impact behaviour within complex urban systems. He holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA) and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Rachel Lees-Green Rachel is a senior consultant at MRCagney, where her work focuses on business case development and transport economics for public transport and walking projects. Rachel has a strong interest in sustainable transport, and she joined MRCagney after completing a Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering so she could apply her analytical skills to projects with environmental and social benefit. She also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Auckland and has completed training in Traffic Engineering and Public Transport Planning.

Emily is a Senior Landscape Architect and the team leader for the Beca South Island Design Practice and has specialised in transformational cycling and walking projects around New Zealand. She has over eight years of experience, working on various projects in the role of Design Manager and lead Landscape Architect, managing and delivering multidisciplinary projects. Emily has recently been selected as one of 30 from around the world to attend a Summer School programme at the University of Amsterdam. She spent the first half of July 2019 engaged in a course titled ‘Planning a Cycling City.’ The course explores planning, practicalities and the motivations for cycling and how we can better plan and design for cyclists.

Claire Graham Claire has been working in the field of urban design and landscape architecture for twelve years, with the last five years focused on infrastructure design for active modes. She is passionate about the role well-designed infrastructure in our streets can play, to provide transport choices and create cities where everyone feels included, safe and welcomed. She has expertise in streetscape design, intersection layout and operation, and universal access. After five years at Auckland Transport she joined MRCagney in 2019 and is enjoying working on several transformational projects in Auckland.

Elaine is an Urban Designer with an architectural background and a passion for place shaping and urban regeneration. She is focused in ensuring the delivery of creative design outcomes that is underpinned by sound methodology and pragmatism. These are essential to addressing the current challenges of urban transformation of existing communities. Elaine has worked for 10 years at a number of design practices in the UK, Australia and New Zealand through which she has been involved in a range of projects from feasibility testing, strategic planning, master planning, urban regeneration to detailed design guidelines. Her most recent project experience at Beca includes leading roles in delivering architecture and urban design expertise to the following projects; • Te Tupu Ngātahi Alliance; as the urban design lead in a number of the business cases helping to establish integrated multi-modal transport and land use options that will support Auckland Council’s aspirations for high quality, connected, sustainable and liveable communities. • Regional Housing Redevelopment Project for HNZ; to provide well considered and sustainable outcomes for increased density in sites throughout regional New Zealand. • Elder Housing Villages Project for Tauranga City Council undertaking comprehensive context analysis and development scenario testing of council owned sites located in Tauranga.

Tim is an urban designer with a landscape architecture background and 24 years’ professional experience, both in New Zealand and overseas. He is an Urban Design Forum New Zealand / Aotearoa Committee member, Christchurch Urban Design Panel member. Masterplanning is Tim’s strength. He relishes the combination of technical leadership, to achieve effective land use, built form and transport integration, alongside the soft skills of workshop facilitation and engagement processes. The challenges of creating places for people within large, complex projects motivates Tim. He is currently an Associate Partner at Boffa Miskell and based out of their growing Queenstown office.