Paul currently leads and manages a team responsible for planning, designing, engaging, consulting, seeking approvals and implementing transport improvement projects. Recently this has focused on establishing the City’s cycleway programme and creation of the cycleways network. He provides leadership in the City Design and Place Planning Business Unit and wider Chief City Planner Directorate, providing input into the other planning team related activities of the business unit, directorate and organisation. The units’ business is to lead through quality design and people-focused engagement to co-create and shape responsive and unique places that make Wellington a great place to live, invest, work and play. With over 25 years’ experience with Wellington City Council Paul can walk or cycle around the capital and spot all the improvements he’s played a key part in delivering and is able to say; “I did that.”

Claire is a transport engineer working in traffic/road engineering and transport planning. Recently, she has worked alongside Auckland Transport and NZTA to deliver several business cases . This work has included reviewing road safety, efficiency and community amenity, interacting with customers and stakeholders to form customer-driven results.

Andrew has worked in a Strategic Road Safety role in Auckland for the last 18 years. He leads a Road Safety Strategy team that have immersed themselves for the last 18 months in how best to apply Vision Zero and the Safe Systems approach to Auckland, learning from international leaders Dr Matts-Ake Belin, Eric Howard and Tony Bliss. The key ingredients for success appear to be courage, evidence, and harnessing the latent values of transport professionals, stakeholders and the community.

Bridget is a Chartered Member of Engineering NZ and Principal Researcher at TDG (now Stantec) in Hamilton. She works on road safety, human factors, inclusiveness and accessibility. Her work spans transport research, policy, planning, design. Bridget has an interest in understanding how engineers think so that she can recommend systemic changes that result in better outcomes for people. Bridget is also in the final stages of a PhD in applied cognitive psychology at the University of Waikato. Her thesis topic is 'Mind wandering during everyday driving'.

Anne Dowden - (independent evaluation consultancy Anne Dowden REWA) set up her own evaluation consultancy seven years ago after some two decades as a partner and evaluation leader in a large research company servicing government agencies in Wellington. She works closely with government agencies and NGOs, as an evaluator, an evaluation mentor and a researcher on a range of projects, especially those related to behaviour change, education, health, social impact and across themes such as road safety, safety, rehabilitation, addiction, and user/community perspective. Margaret Stevenson-Wright – (New Zealand Transport Agency) has been working as a Senior Advisor at the NZ Transport Agency for close to 11 years. Margaret has a background in adult education having both taught (management studies, marketing and education) in the tertiary sector and held management roles both there and in the Public Sector.

Craig Waterworth is a Senior Education Advisor at the New Zealand Transport Agency focused on the areas of Substance impaired driving, Safer driving for older people and Child restraints. Craig has previously worked in policy, health promotion and education roles at Massey University, Regional Public Health and The Nursing Council, and, as part of this, he also has a broad background practising in general nursing in both Aotearoa/New Zealand and the UK

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