Speakers
Meet the Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014 Speakers
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- Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell
- Craig Richards
- Dafydd Davis
- Ethan Kent
- Florian Lennert
- Glen Koorey
- Jan Garrard
- Janette Sadik-Khan
- Jennifer Bonham
- Klaus Bondam
- Lawrence Frank
- Manfred Neun
- Maria Vassilakou
- Mikael Colville-Andersen
- Morten Kabell
- Niels Hoé
- Per Ankersjö
- Peter Eich
- Peter Lumb
- Steven Fleming
- Timothy Papandreou
- Tracey Gaudry
- Trevor Shilton
Janette Sadik-Khan, former Commissioner of Transportation, New York City
Janette Sadik-Khan has served as the Commissioner of NYCDOT since 2007. Internationally recognized for her expertise in transportation issues, public policy development and innovative finance, Sadik-Khan has implemented an ambitious program to improve safety, mobility and sustainability throughout NYC, and ensure a state of good repair on the city’s roads, sidewalks and bridges. Sadik-Khan has overseen a series of innovative projects, including creating more pedestrian space in Times Square and along Broadway from Columbus Circle to Union Square, the planning and launch of seven Select Bus Service routes and the nation’s largest bike share program, the addition of 365 miles of bicycle lanes and the installation and design of 59 plazas citywide, and the publication of a Street Design Manual and Street Works Manual that define new standards for creating more durable and attractive streets.
Under Sadik-Khan’s leadership, DOT has received awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Women’s Transportation Seminar, the Municipal Arts Society, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and the доставка цветов Дубай ОАЭ.
Sadik-Khan’s contributions to public service and the field of transportation have been recognized with awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Institute of Architects, the National Resources Defense Council and NYU Wagner’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management. Sadik-Khan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Occidental College, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Florian Lennert, Intelligent City Forum
Florian Lennert is Director of the Intelligent City Forum. Intelligent City is a joint venture of the Innovation Centre for Mobility and Societal Change (InnoZ) in Berlin and LSE Enterprise, the venture and innovation division of the London School of Economics (LSE). He also serves as an Associate Director of LSE Enterprise.
Intelligent City focuses on sustainable urban innovation and pursues research and development in the area of smart mobility, urban renewable energy systems, intelligent infrastructure and future city design. Intelligent City also coordinates an innovation campus in Berlin which provides a living lab for the future city and the hub for a global network of leading applied research and innovation institution such as InnoZ, LSE, MIT Media Lab, the German Social Science Centre (WZB) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
Mikael Colville-Andersen, Copenhagenize Design
As an urban mobility expert and CEO for Copenhagenize Design Company, Mikael Colville-Andersen is one of the leading global voices in urban planning and focuses on re-establishing the bicycle on the urban landscape. He regards the bicycle is the most important tool in our urban toolbox for rebuilding our liveable cities.
Few people have done more to promote urban cycling. What started with the now-famous ”Photo That Launched a Million Bicycles” on Copenhagen Cycle Chic (copenhagencyclechic.com) that kickstarted the global bicycle boom, led to the bicycle urbanism blog Copenhagenize.com, The Slow Bicycle Movement, the global Cycle Chic trend, the Bicycle Innovation Lab (the first cultural centre for urban cycling) and even a Danish cycling NGO - Cykelrepublikken.
Colville-Andersen has coined a number of expressions to describe this modern bicycle boom, including; Cycle Chic, Copenhagenize, Bicycle Urbanism and Citizen Cyclist.
With his company, Colville-Andersen and his team advise cities and towns about how to gear up for Bicycle Culture 2.0 and take the bicycle seriously as transport once again. They work on a variety of projects, including putting the bicycle onto the curriculum in Sao Paulo schools, communications strategies aimed at encouraging Citizen Cyclists to consider the bicycle as transport and working with architectural firms in order to get the bicycle into the designs from the beginning of the process. Together with the Dutch consultancy Mobycon, Copenhagenize Design Company gives Master Classes in bicycle policy and planning to planners and engineers around the world.
Ethan Kent, Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
Ethan Kent is an authority in the practice of Placemaking, working to support Placemaking projects and organizations around the world. During over 14 years at PPS, Ethan has learned from and photographed public spaces in more than 700 cities and 50 countries. Ethan has been integral to the development of Placemaking as a transformative approach to economic development, environmentalism, transportation planning, governance and design.
Having worked on over 200 PPS projects, Ethan has led a broad spectrum of Placemaking efforts, providing comprehensive public engagement, planning and visioning for many important public spaces. Highlights have included: Portland Oregon’s Pioneer Courthouse Square; Times Square in New York; Kennedy Plaza in Providence, RI; Pompey Square, Nassau, Bahamas; Garden Place in Hamilton, New Zealand; and Sub Centro Las Condes in Santiago, Chile. He has also worked with some of the most high profile developments in the world to help maximize public space outcomes in Hong Kong, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sao Paulo.
Utilizing lessons learned through his project work, Ethan regularly creates and conducts Placemaking training courses for professionals of various disciplines, from city planning staff in Vancouver, BC, to community development corporations in Detroit; from public housing developers in Sweden to traffic engineers in New Jersey. He has also trained hundreds of professionals across Australia and New Zealand, through leading more than 25 training workshops.
Niels Hoé has founded and runs the company HOE360 Consulting and has worked with cycling, green mobility and urban planning for more than 10 years with a strong focus on how those are combined in order to create high quality cities with great livability.
Niels works internationally on a wide range of projects all with cycling as a recognisable thread. And has made several notable Bicycle related concept- and design developments.
Glen Koorey, University of Canterbury
Glen is a Senior Lecturer in Transportation Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to joining Canterbury in 2004, he worked for 10 years as a consulting engineer and researcher.
Glen’s wide-ranging experience includes considerable work in road safety, speed management, sustainable transport, and highway design/operations. He was involved in the development and delivery of national guidelines and training on Planning & Design for Cycling and Walking, and recently investigated cycling fatalities as part of a national Inquiry.
Lawrence Frank, University of British Columbia and Urban Design for Health, Inc
Dr. Frank is Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and President of Urban Design for Health, Inc. based in Seattle WA and Vancouver BC. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality; and in the health, energy use, and climate change impacts of urban form policies.
He has been studying the effects of neighborhood walkability on travel patterns and sustainability for 20 years and has led over $18 million in funded research and published over 100 peer reviewed articles and the two leading books – Heath and Community Design and Urban Sprawl and Public Health on these topics.
Dr. Frank has written several of the leading papers and has helped to pioneer our understanding of the many ways in which our environments impact our physical and mental health and well being.
Dr. Frank works directly with local, regional, provincial or state, and federal agencies to help translate results from leading edge research into practice based tools that provide direct feedback on the health and environmental impacts of alternative transportation and land development proposals.
Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell, www.thebikeinmylife.com
Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell is a Melbourne/San Francisco based multi-media freelance journalist and award-winning independent documentary filmmaker.
Since 2006 Bojun has specalised in blogging, writing, filming and photographing on the politics, culture and fashion of bicycles globally.
Her most recent project is a series of short documentary films capturing the global story of the bicycle - The One Billion Bicycles Project.
In its first year of production (June 2012- June 2013), Bojun traveled solo across 5 continents, 32 countries and 62 cities to interview over 140 bicycles experts, politicians, dignitaries, bicycle works and the public.
In 2013 Bojun founded of The Bike In My Life - an online bicycle magazine for women, by women, about women, and The Bicycle Bootique - an online shop sourcing the world's best bicycle fashion and accessories for women, from around the globe.
Bojun's indie films and co-productions have received a number of awards, and her articles have featured in Australia and New Zealand's major media.
Prior to 2011 Bojun worked as a Media/Strategic Communication/PR consultant with some of Australia's leading social and political change organisations including OurSay Australia, The Greens Australia, Live Below The Line Campaign, International Ranger Federation and Centre for Educations and Research in Environmental Strategy.
Timothy Papandreou, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Timothy directly oversees a team of 30 planning, engineering and policy staff and matrixes over 100 additional staff to develop and lead the implementation of the agency’s economically competitive, sustainable mobility goals through integrated, multi-modal (bicycle, walking, transit, car-sharing, parking and taxi) transportation plans, street design projects, and complete street project integration policies and programs. He oversees the development and implementation of the agency’s six–year Strategic work plan to meet the city’s ambitious quality of life goals. Timothy represents the agency on several bodies including the California Transit Association, National Association of City Transportation Officials, American Public Transportation Association, and Transportation Research Board and is an advisor to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, and several city, transport ministries and international organizations.
Jennifer Bonham, University of Adelaide
Jennifer Bonham is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide. She has a background in human geography specializing in urbanisation and cultural practices of travel. Jennifer’s research focuses on the complex relationship between bodies, spaces, practices and rationalities of travel. She is a member of the editorial board for Transfers the Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and she has served on the organising committee for the Australian Cycling Conference. Jennifer’s work is informed by a concern for equitable and ecologically sustainable cities.
Steven Fleming, University of Tasmania
Steven Fleming is a writer, academic, speaker and consultant, working at the theoretical limits of the cycling renaissance. He combines his PhD in philosophy+architecture, his experience designing new towns in Singapore, and his passions for writing, cycling and teaching, to generate new theories and concepts in aesthetics and spatial planning. Many appear in his book Cycle Space.
Steven has been invited to speak to institutes of architecture in New York, Rotterdam, Singapore and Sydney. He has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the Harvard School of Public Health. He leads Cycle-Space Studio in conceiving creative architectural responses to cycling, and coordinates graduate research at the University of Tasmania.
Photo: Femke Hoogland
Jan Garrard, Deakin University
Jan Garrard is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University. Her research interests are in active transport, women’s participation in cycling and cycling safety. Jan has published several articles and book chapters on cycling promotion and bicycle safety. Jan is a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Cycling Promotion Fund, the Research and Policy Committee of the Amy Gillett Foundation and, together with Julie Hatfield, is an Australian representative on the OECD/ITF Cycling Safety Working Group, which recently released the research report “Cycling, Health and Safety”.
Peter Eich, a mathematician and philosopher by education, is a serial founder from Germany, who has set up nine companies and many more projects. Most of his ventures are related to bicycle tourism. His company Radweg-Reisen became Europe's largest and most successful operator of bicycle tours with more than 20,000 customers per year.
His web service Bikemap.net became the world's largest collection of user generated bicycle routes, with 15 million page views per month and still growing fast.
Besides working on new start ups Peter is a frequent speaker about bicycle tourism in particular, and about entrepreneurship in general.
Manfred Neun, European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF)
Manfred Neun has been President of the ECF since May 2005. Through his work on ‘agenda setting’ he has established himself as a pre-eminent thinker on cycling advocacy. Under his leadership both the ECF and the Velo-city conference series have expanded and flourished internationally. During Manfred’s presidency the ECF has become the world’s foremost voice in cycling advocacy, Federation membership has more than doubled, and Velo-city has become a global annual event.
Manfred instigated (and still chairs) ECF’s global network ‘Scientists for Cycling’ and has worked intensively on ECF’s ‘Cycling Industry Club’.
One of Manfred’s most important legacies to international cycling advocacy has been his introduction of the ‘Cycling Economy’ concept at Velo-city Seville in 2011, which built on ideas of sustainable, active mobility through cycling.
More recently Manfred’s work has moved to the field of human rights, bringing together the challenges of mobility, economics and social justice in one overall frame.
His latest paper “Active Mobility: Achieving human rights through cycling” can be found at http://www.ecf.com/advocary/bicycle-economics/#sthash.Dh0eN2AU.dpuf.
Manfred will set the scene for delegates at Velo-city Global Adelaide 2014 about the global cycling agenda.
Maria Vassilakou, Deputy Mayor of Vienna
Maria Vassilakou started her political career as Secretary General of the Austrian Students’ Union. In November 1996 she became Member of the Vienna Provincial Parliament and in 2004 Head of the Parliamentary Group of the Green Party. Since November 2010 Maria Vassilakou is Deputy Mayor of Vienna and Executive City Councillor for Urban Planning, Traffic & Transport, Climate Protection, Energy and Public Participation. Maria Vassilakou is the first Executive City Councillor with a migration background. She was born in Greece and sees Vienna as an open, modern and diverse city.
Per Ankersjö, Vice Mayor of Stockholm
Per Ankersjö is Stockholm’s Vice Mayor for the Environment, chair of the Environment and Health Committee and Chair of the Urban Environment Advisory Board. Besides this, he is the Group Leader of the Center Party in the Stockholm City Council as well as the District Chair of the Center Party in Stockholm.
Per Ankersjö has been the leading bicycle advocate in Stockholm’s local government since 2010 and he’s been instrumental in Stockholm’s effort to become one of the world’s greatest bicycling cities today and a fossil fuel free city by 2050.
Under Ankersjö’s leadership, Stockholm’s first step was to introduce a new way of thinking within the city’s own organization: that more biking leads to a better environment, less congestions and a more enjoyable city.
Trevor Shilton, Heart Foundation
Trevor is Director of Cardiovascular Health WA and National Lead Active Living at the Heart Foundation. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Built Environment and Health, University of Western Australia.
Trevor was the founding National President of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) Internationally he is Global Vice President for Advocacy of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), and Chairman of Global Advocacy for Physical Activity (GAPA), the Advocacy Council of ISPAH.
Trevor has extensive experience in health promotion, publishing book chapters and over 40 papers in peer reviewed journals. He has participated in guideline and policy development in Australia, Canada and the United States.
Tracey Gaudry, Amy Gillett Foundation
Tracey Gaudry is a woman with an astounding story whose professional and sporting career embraces cycling from community participation to elite sport, from local council initiatives to global advocacy for the development and growth of cycling.
Tracey has uniquely combined her professional career in business strategy and management with her passion for cycling – Tracey is a dual Olympian and former World #3 professional road cyclist.
Tracey is the CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation (AGF), an Australian Charity whose primary objective is to reduce the incidence of death and injury caused by the interaction between cyclists and motorists. The AGF aims to improve safety through awareness & education, research and influencing public policy.
Dafydd Davis, TRAILS by Dafydd Davis
Dafydd Davis has been involved in the planning, design, construction and management of recreational trails for over 18 years; including the development and management of the UK’s first purpose built mountain bike trails at Coed y Brenin in North Wales. He developed and delivered the Welsh Mountain Bike Initiative, the worlds first national development strategy for mountain bike trails and tourism, between 1998 and 2002 and developed the Forestry Commission’s off road cycling policies and strategies (MTB Wales 1999). He was responsible for developing and refining the ‘Trail Centre’ model which is now prevalent throughout the UK and elsewhere.
He has also recently developed sustainability frameworks, trail planning and design protocols and trail construction standards for the Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) in Queensland Australia, and a Trail Development Principles (for mountain biking)document for the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC)and the Department of Sport and Recreation (DSR) in Western Australia.
Peter Lumb, Australian Cycling Conference
Peter Lumb is an adjunct academic at Flinders University South Australian who is a contract consultant on Australian aid projects. He teaches Australian social policy at the University of South Australia. He is currently the President of the Australian Walking and Cycling Conference Inc. which is held annually in Adelaide. He has been a ministerial appointment to a number of government committees and councils. He has been a commuting cyclist since 1975 and is a former President of the Bicycle Institute of South Australia. Peter chairs the board of an organisation which provides in home care and support for disabled adults.
Craig Richards, Bicycle Network
Craig leads an amazing team of people who are striving to make the world better. Physical activity is vital for a long, happy life. So Bicycle Network makes bike riding easy for everyone.
As the C.E.O Craig’s role is to provide direction, get the best out of the team and make sure everyone is on track. Craig says the title means nothing unless he inspires the team to do things they didn’t think they could.
Craig sums up how he feels about his job with this quote, ‘To love what you do and feel that it matters, how can anything else be more fun.’
Morten Kabell, City of Copenhagen
Morten Kabell’s vision is to transform Copenhagen into a greener city with a higher level of livability. His political focus is changing the traffic in Copenhagen so more people will use bicycles and public transportation.
Morten Kabell is focused on expanding the bicycle network by building new bicycle lanes next to, but separated from the car lanes. He also wishes to broaden more bicycle lanes that are affected by bicycle traffic jam in the morning and afternoon. He also wants to increase the mobility for pedestrians, and passengers of public transport. All in order to create good alternative for motorist so they will leave their car at home.
Klaus Bondam, Danish Cyclists’ Federation
Klaus Bondam is former Mayor (2006 - 2010) for the Technical and Environmental Administration, City of Copenhagen responsible for the bicycle infrastructure among others. From 2011 - 2013 he was the director of The Danish Cultural Institute/Benelux in Brussels, playing an active role in the Belgian debate on how to improve the cycling culture in Belgium - and especially Brussels. From February 1, 2014 he was appointed as the new director of Danish Cyclists’ Federation, which was established in 1905, to make sure that the voice of the vast amounts of Danish cyclist is heard on both a local, regional and national level.