Cong Tran is currently a Ph.D. student in Transportation Engineering at the University of Canterbury. After finishing his graduate studies in the field of Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering, Hochiminh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, he earns the UC Doctoral Scholarship that supports him to pursue his research journey in New Zealand with the topic of optimal charging locations for the adoption of electric vehicles in the urban transportation network. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research toward sustainable development including urban transportation systems, network optimization, and green city logistics.

Lewis has been Uber's Head of Public Policy for New Zealand since 2018. Prior to joining Uber he was an in-house lawyer in the public service and Senior Counsel to the Mayor of Auckland. He began his career in private legal practice as a civil litigation lawyer and Crown prosecutor at Meredith Connell. He holds a BA/LLB (Hons) and studied at the University of Auckland and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Kristian Jensen is the Project Director across Industrial & Electrical Utilities in applications where production, security and continuity are essential. This, when coupled with low carbon or zero-emission can create a financial challenge and Kristian brings a broad range of experience on energy projects (whether energy generation, distribution or storage & use in transport) to solve the issues. His projects range from Electric Vehicle policies and guidelines through to the testing and installation of high power chargers up to 430kVA. He has also been involved in the Hydrogen bus project and is looking forward to seeing hte vehicle on teh streets of Auckland shortly.

Ben is a chartered transport and advisory professional based in Australia delivering city-shaping projects around the world. With almost 20 years’ experience, he leads multi-discipline teams collaborating with industry, national and state government to capture scheme benefits and deliver outcomes aligned to the UN sustainable development goals. As an industry thought leader, Ben has extensive knowledge of assessment and analysis of future demands on networks, working through business cases, management and mitigation to secure approvals and realise the change in mobility and place. Ben currently champions the global transport research programme for Arup and is working with key state and local government clients throughout the ANZ region to advise on hydrogen and the future of mobility.

Ralph Samuelson is currently a professional student at Victoria University of Wellington. From August 2019 to February 2021, he was employed as Principal Analyst at the New Zealand Climate Change Commission, where he coordinated the Commission’s efforts to model greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector and wrote much of the discussion of transport in the Commission’s draft Evidence report. Between September 2015 and August 2019, he was a Principal at the Ministry of Transport, where he led development of a comprehensive suite of long-term models of New Zealand’s transport system covering all modes, including local household travel, vehicle kilometres travelled, freight, and air travel. He was also a co-author of the New Zealand Transport Outlook: Future State, examining potential 25-year futures for the New Zealand’s transport sector under five alternative scenarios. He has published more than 14 reports and journal articles, and has given presentations at a number of international conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and an M.S. in Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Haobo Wang is Principal Analyst - Analytics & Modelling at the Ministry of Transport. He has led MoT's emission modelling work and is MoT's subject expert on the environmental impacts of transport. His work has included modelling the impacts of a number of potential policy/regulation measures on transport GHG emission reduction. As part of his work on environmental impacts, he has led MoT's vehicle fleet analysis workstream and its regular publications. This included examining the real world fuel use of the NZ vehicle fleet. He has conducted extensive research on atmospheric chemistry and air pollution. He has also developed a suite of forecast models for air transport. He has published more than 10 research papers in international journals and given presentations at many international conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Auckland.