The Auckland Transportation Group committee.

Jarrett Walker is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, with 25 years of experience planning public transit in North America, Europe, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. His firm Jarrett Walker and Associates, based in Portland, Oregon, provides transit planning and executive advice to clients worldwide. He has worked in about 100 cities in nine countries. Since 2011 he led the planning for a majority of the ridership-increasing network redesigns in the US, including in Houston, Columbus, Richmond, San Jose, and Anchorage. Projects underway include Dallas, Atlanta, and Dublin, Ireland. He is a frequent keynote speaker, both at conferences and at events building a city’s interest and understanding of the public transit challenge. He is a well-known innovator in describing transit issues to the public, in building values-based policies and standards, and in running interactive design processes for transit plans. His training programs range from executive workshops to two-day intensive courses. His book, HUMAN TRANSIT: HOW CLEARER THINKING ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSIT CAN ENRICH OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR LIVES, was published by Island Press in 2011. The book offers an introduction to transit issues for the average reader, designed to help anyone form clearer views that reflect their own values. In addition to his consulting, teaching, and speaking, he writes about public transit issues at HumanTransit.org.

Paul founded Temple: Capital Investment Specialists in 2003 to support higher quality investment decisions for Boards, senior executives, and sources of funds (Private Equity funds, debt funds and commercial lenders). His expertise is understanding market structures, the conduct of market participants and the performance that results from this as a means of informing entry / exit decisions. Previously, Paul worked with McKinsey & Company and Partners in Performance. Paul is also founder and Director of kinaroad, a disruptive manufacturer of surfboards backed by a leading Australasian private equity fund in 2016. He holds a PhD and BE in mechanical engineering. Paul founded The 1point5 Project, a not-for-profit backed by Sir Stephen Tindall, Phillip Mills and others to focus and amplify the voices of people targeting a 1.5C future. Over the past two years Paul has presented extensively on New Zealand’s most pragmatic path to delivering its climate obligations and the gaps we need to close to doing so.