Vida Christeller, Manager City Design at Wellington City Council
Vida leads Wellington City Council's City Design team, focused on influencing and delivering people-centric spaces which build on the best of Wellington and transforms the city to be fit for the future. Her focus is on ensuring that the Council’s strategy and policy are implemented, and the city becomes more sustainable in the whole holistic sense of the word – that densification is done well through empowering Wellingtonians of all ages and abilities to get around safely on foot and by bike, urban greening, public space upgrades and place-based regeneration. Wellington City Council is turning strategy into action and are beginning a decade of transformative change.
Skye Duncan, Global Designing Cities Initiative
Skye is an urban designer with over 20 years of experience in architecture, urban design, planning, and transportation, and has been recognized as one of TUMI’s Remarkable Women in Transportation. Skye is the Executive Director of the GDCI, and she and her team produced the award-winning Global Street Design Guide and its recent supplement, Designing Streets for Kids. In support of these global resources, GDCI provides ongoing technical assistance to multiple cities around the world on transforming streets and mobility to support safe, sustainable, equitable, and healthy cities for everyone.
Skye has worked as a Senior Urban Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning, as an International Urban Design Consultant, and as an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York City, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar.
Bridget Doran, transportation engineer and researcher
Bridget holds degrees in engineering and in applied cognitive psychology and is a Chartered Member of Engineering New Zealand. Bridget has over twenty years of experience in the transport sector. Her work specialties are in planning and design of accessible streets and places; community engagement, particularly with disabled people; research into the intersection of transport, equity and wellbeing; and road safety. Bridget is an advocate for the promotion of disabled people's voices in public process. She is interested in the psychology of transportation investment decisions by planners, engineers, executives and politicians.
Terry Collins, New Zealand Automobile Association
Terry is a Principal Advisor for the NZAA, mainly dealing with policy, technology, and fuel pricing. He has a varied career from implementing the traceable measurement of fuel excise duty to developing and implementing policies for vehicle fuel economy labelling, the Clean Car Standard and product standards for energy efficiency. He has also managed permitting for New Zealand’s mineral resources. Terry is a keen motorcyclist and uses a variety of options for mobility including public transport and bikes.