A paediatrician and public health physician by training, Shanthi is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Auckland and Senior Researcher at Counties Manukau Health (Population Health Directorate and Kidz First Hospital). Her internationally recognized research focuses on transport and health, injury prevention, trauma care and disability. Her work is motivated by the challenging gaps between the rhetoric and reality of community wellbeing from an equity perspective. As she sees it, this has much to do with who is at the table and who is out of sight and out of mind. She has published widely and serves on multiple national and international advisory boards. She and her work with national and international collaborators have been recognised with the Te Manāia Leadership Award for Injury Prevention and the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

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.

Louise Baker is a Technical Principal in the Transport Planning and Advisory team at WSP. She is a transport planner specialising in travel behaviour change, and she also enjoys the challenge of considering how technology can help New Zealand to achieve policy goals and change transport systems in ways that improve the liveability of our cities and towns. The projects that Louise finds the most rewarding are those that open up choice so that more people can access active and shared transport for journeys to work or around their neighbourhoods. Louise has lived in Auckland and worked for WSP (formerly Opus) for 16 years; before moving to New Zealand, she worked in the UK at Orange, in the Environment team, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group as their Transportation Manager.