Apr 03, 2017
Alix is a graduate in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and SciencesPo Paris, and a previous researcher for NewCities. She recently submitted her Master’s thesis on the urbanization of the tech industry. As part of her research, she met many entrepreneurs in American cities including San Francisco, Nashville, Kansas City, Seattle and…
Apr 03, 2017
Tiffany Obser recently completed her Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her professional interests lie in research and architecture at the urban scale. She has contributed to design projects in Colombia, the USA, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Saudi Arabia, where she visited KAEC in 2012.
Apr 03, 2017
Isabel Dedring is London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport. In this capacity she is responsible for setting policy and ensuring programme delivery across the Mayor’s transport portfolio. Key projects in this role have included the Tube Reliability Programme, targeting a 30% reduction in delays, developing the Mayor’s recent Cycling Vision, and leading the development of London’s…
Apr 03, 2017
Katherine McKinlay is a Principal Transport Policy Officer at the Greater London Authority where she develops, delivers and monitors elements of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and key Mayoral initiatives. She is responsible for road safety policy, the Roads Task Force and Major Road schemes within the GLA, working with the Deputy Mayor for Transport to…
Apr 03, 2017
Alex Krieger is a principal at NBBJ, a global architecture and planning firm, and a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1977 and served as chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1997-2004.
Apr 03, 2017
David Fine is Product Manager at Placemeter, a New York based startup that is a real-time data platform that uses sensors implemented by the community and public video feeds to quantify and index the physical world.
Apr 03, 2017
Born in Istanbul, Dr Ekim Tan graduated as an architect from the Middle East Technical University in 1999, winning the Archiprix Award. She received her second degree in urbanism from the Technical University Delft in 2005. Ekim has long been fascinated by both Istanbul and the Netherlands, watching as the political and spatial landscape in…
Apr 03, 2017
After graduating with degrees in Planning from Aalborg University and in Public Affairs/Economics from Princeton University, Per Als pursued a career in Public Transportation in Denmark on national, local and regional level.
Apr 03, 2017
Michelle Harrington is a Communications Specialist for the Connected Corridors project at California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH). Since 2008, she has managed multiple marketing and public outreach programs for local governments, businesses, and non-profits.
Apr 03, 2017
Alexandre Bayen is a Chancellor Professor at UC Berkeley, in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley.
Apr 03, 2017
Josephine d’Allant is a Project Director at Dallant Networks and the Managing Editor of URB.im, the online community for just and inclusive cities. She graduated with High Honors from UC Berkeley with a bachelors in International Development Studies and a Certificate from SciencesPo Paris.
Apr 03, 2017
Chris Michael is the deputy editor of Guardian Cities. He was media correspondent at the National Post, cofounded Trucker magazine, spent three years at what is now the International New York Times/Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo and joined the Guardian culture desk in 2007, moving on to launch Guardian Cities earlier this year.