Graeme is a Chartered Professional Engineer with a career spanning over 25 years, mostly in road safety. Since 2015 the focus changed to designing and building cycleways in the Auckland CBD. Graeme relishes the opportunity to be part of the transformation that is providing infrastructure to enable and encourage a wider section of the community to get on their bikes as part of their life cycle.

James is a Transport Engineer with WSP, based in Perth. He has worked in consultancy, construction and research roles across Western Australia and in the United Kingdom. Key areas of interest for James include active transport (particular cycling), freight planning and emerging technologies including autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems. James holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from Curtin and Oxford Brookes Universities.

Ben is a Chartered Professional Transportation Engineer, working for Stantec in Christchurch. He has been heavily involved in the route selection, scheme and detailed design of separated cycleways in Christchurch and further afield, working almost purely in this field since 2014. Over that time, Ben has designed many kilometres of separated cycleway schemes in urban, suburban and industrial environments, along with dozens of intersections. This has given him a vast range of experience and lessons to draw from in his design practice. Prior to his work in cycleway design, Ben has been involved in a broad range of transportation work, ranging from minor safety works to road design in the Christchurch Rebuild, and various roles in the contracting industry, including working on the implementation of cycle facilities.

Margaret Hawkes Director, Freedom Mobility Network – an online community of active wheelchair users and mobility technology providers Quentin Smith Wanaka based, Quentin is a member of Queenstown Lakes District Council. He is a wheelchair user and a keen cyclist and skier.

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