Greg graduated from Victoria University in 1992 with a BA in Theatre and Film. During 1993 Greg trained as a Primary School Teacher and in 1994 graduated with a Diploma in Secondary teaching from Christchurch College of Education. Greg has taught in secondary schools in New Zealand and England. He has taught comedy and improvisation throughout the country for 17 years at secondary and tertiary levels. He has held the Secondary Schools, University, National and Commonwealth Theatresports titles. He has represented New Zealand at Theatresports twice - firstly as part of a Commonwealth competition in 1992 and then at the World Championships in 2006. Greg has appeared in movies, television and radio drama and comedy. His years of experience and understanding interaction with an audience makes him ideally suited for his continuing work on numerous television studio shows. Greg looks forward to MC'ing the conference for the 11th year. He is proudly sponsored by Stantec.

The Auckland Transportation Group committee.

Jon is an award-winning transport design and engagement consultant. He specialises in active travel, community involvement in street design, kerbside management, shared and combined mobility. He is best known for his work with Waltham Forest on the delivery if the multi-award winning Mini-Holland programme but works on similar schemes with local authorities and communities throughout the country on similar schemes, including Liveable Neighbourhoods in London and the nationwide Transforming Cities Programme. Jon helped Waltham Forest develop their borough-wide design concept and successful £27 million bid, then subsequently the approach to engagement, design guide, cycling vision and behaviour change initiatives. Previously Jon was head of Sustainable Transport and Parking at a large consultancy, working on high-profile active travel projects including the Santander Cycle Hire Scheme and the Area Traffic Management Plans for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Jon formed his own consultancy Bespoke in 2014. Bespoke work with towns and cities throughout the UK on the development and delivery of a broad spectrum of active travel projects, including strategies, street design, liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods, and sustainable mobility options for urban environments.

Councillor Clyde Loakes Waltham Forest Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment A Councillor for the Leytonstone Ward in Waltham Forest for the past 23 years, Clyde is dedicated to delivering for local residents and communities. Widely respected in local government circles across the political spectrum, with a deep understanding of the workings of local and national Government, Clyde previously served as Leader of Waltham Forest until May ‘09, spending six years in that role. As Waltham Forest Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Environment Clyde leads on all environmental, climate and transport policies, as well as highways and parking management. Clyde provided the political leadership from the initial bidding process through to the implementation and delivery of the multi award winning and ground-breaking Mini-Holland/Enjoy Waltham Forest. The scheme has delivered significant investment and radical expansion and improvements to the borough’s active travel infrastructure, boosting the safety, priority and numbers of residents walking and cycling. Clyde won the 2016 London Cycling Awards "Cycling Champion of the Year" in recognition of his leadership on Waltham Forest’s Mini Holland project and was recognised in the Top 10 Environmental Activists for 2019 in The Evening Standard’s ‘Progress 1000’ most influential people. – remove this para when need shorter bio Clyde is the longest serving member of the London Councils’ Transport and Environment Committee, which oversees the policy direction of the transport and environmental agenda in London. He has been Chair of the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) for over 13 years, and was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for London Energy Ltd. Ambitious and energetic, Clyde has enviable networks and a passion for excellence and improvement in public services. He remains committed and available to the borough’s residents, complimenting traditional casework with active community engagement on social media.

As a Local Board member for Maungakiekie Tāmaki and part of Auckland Council, McGlashan has played a leading role in their Low Traffic Neighborhood projects funded by the Waka Kotahi Innovating Streets for People Fund. Having spent a previous life as a professional cricketer, where his innovative approach to the game and equipment design carried him to the world stage, the opportunity to test one of the most effective, yet contentious, tools for mode-shift used globally, in a local environment proved too tempting to resist.

Skye Duncan joined NACTO in 2014 to serve as the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies that has developed the award-winning Global Street Design Guide and its recent supplement, Designing Streets for Kids. In support of these resources, her and her team provide technical assistance to cities on street and public space design around the world. Currently her team is focusing on bringing the lessons and best practices from these global publications to help Bogotá in Colombia, São Paulo and Fortaleza in Brazil, Mumbai in India, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and Milan in Italy to shape safe and sustainable streets. Skye is an urban designer with over 15 years of experience in architecture, urban design, planning and landscape architecture, and comes to NACTO after seven years working as a Senior Urban Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning in their Office of the Chief Urban Designer. There, she offered her design expertise to help shape sites of all scales across the city and collaborated with multiple agencies and organizations to make New York City a more sustainable, resilient, livable and healthy city. Skye contributed to the NYC DOT Street Design Manual and helped develop much of the Planning Department’s innovative work relating to public health and the built environment. She was a contributing author to the Active Design Guidelines (2010) and led a team to produce the well-received 2013 publication Shaping the Sidewalk Experience. In 2019, Skye was recognized as one of TUMI’s Remarkable Women in Transportation. Skye has worked professionally as an International Urban Design Consultant in Brazil, Colombia, Canada and New Zealand, and was an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for seven years. She graduated as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia in the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design program and has a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.