Prof Currie is a renowned international Public Transport research leader and policy advisor with over 30 year's experience. He has published more research papers in leading international peer research journals in this field than any other researcher in the world. He is founder of the ‘World Transit Research’ clearinghouse (www.worldtransitresearch.info) which has consolidated all research in this field into a single accessible source and is now used by over 8,000 towns and cities in over 170 countries worldwide. Professor Currie has worked for some of the world's leading Public Transport Operators including London Transport, and he has managed numerous Public Transport research and development projects internationally. Prof Currie’s experience spans Project Management, Demand Forecasting, Planning Methods in Public Transport, Regulatory Reviews, Efficiency and Performance Benchmarking, Training, Market Research, Investment Appraisal and Financial and Economic Analysis. Graham is also a specialist advisor to international agencies on planning transport for special events and has worked on all the summer Olympic Games since 1996 and the Hajj pilgrimage in Mekka. Graham holds one of the worlds first full Professorships specializing in Public Transport. In this role he aims to develop knowledge and training for the public transport profession on a national and international basis.

Nicola is a Road Safety Partnerships Lead at Auckland Transport (AT). She utilises her varied background of road safety education, stakeholder management and communications to support effective working relationships with key partners across Tāmaki Makaurau. With the Vision Zero strategy now off the ground Nicola’s focus is on maintaining momentum with our mandate, driving system change and ensuring AT and our partners remain focussed on the end goal – a transport system that is safe for everyone.

Lily Linton is a researcher, policy advisor and all round “understander-er”. Lily has background in art, urban design and civil engineering. She has a passion for the way people instinctively respond to aspects of the road environment, the larger social outcomes of engineering, and the full design context of public streets and roads as human habitat. Lily has been in the safety performance area of Auckland Transport since 2016, now a Safe System Advisor researching, interpreting and promoting Vision Zero. A strong interest in safe, useful and appealing walking environments builds on pedestrian advocacy work at Living Streets Aotearoa. Lily researched and wrote the introduction to Vision Zero section in the new USRDG Design Guide for Auckland Transport, and has spoken on Vision Zero for pedestrians and aesthetic ‘sense of journey’ design at previous conferences. Please feel free to make contact via email Lily.Linton@at.govt.nz, to talk about low-harm transport, and in particular pedestrian, town centre and urban road safety topics. Also keen to hear about related research, innovative ideas or trials.

Greg has over 15 years of senior management and leadership roles across several industries and countries. Most recently in environmental sustainability in New Zealand in the retail and transportation sectors. He is currently at the New Zealand Transport Agency, where he focuses on developing strategies to encourage the uptake of new vehicle technologies and services that are better for the environment and safer. Before working in environmental sustainability, Greg spent several years in New Zealand and abroad in the market research and data analytics industry.

Kaye Clark (NZCE, BE, MBA) Kaye is a Principal Advisor in the Safety, Health and Environment Group at the New Zealand Transport Agency. Previously she was the Agency’s Hamilton Highway Manager responsible for building, maintaining and operating 2,500km of highways within the Waikato and Bay of Plenty region. Before joining the Transport Agency, Kaye held engineering and management positions with three Local Authorities, giving her a unique perspective on the challenges facing road controlling authorities. Kaye sits on the University of Auckland Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Board and the Board of Engineering NZ. She is a member of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA), the NZ Institute of Directors and is a Fellow of Engineering NZ.

Janet is the Epidemiologist at Research Manager at the Midland Trauma System, based at Waikato Hospital. She has spent most of the last twenty years in the health sector in research, policy and project management roles, including at the Ministry of Health, Statistics New Zealand and more recently in primary care. Janet is particularly interested in evidence-driven decision making, health services research, injury epidemiology and injury prevention. Outside of work, Janet is fast learning to argue like a lawyer (with teenagers).