Suleman Alli joined UK Power Networks from Accenture where he was a Managing Director, leading the utility network operations practice in the UK. UK Power Networks is asubsidiary of CK Infrastructures (HKD 11bn in revenues),an infrastructure company with diversified investments inthe energy, transportation, and water sectors. Sul has 15 years utilities experience, delivering business transformation, company restructures and operational performance improvement across gas, electricity and water sectors. Sul’s expertise is in strategy development, regulation, operatingmodel design, and delivering complex change programmes.

Clara Bagenal George is an associate at Elementa Consulting and won the Mayor of London’s Design Advocates for Good Growth. Coming from an inter-disciplinary background she works seamlessly between environmental analysis, mechanical engineering, and sustainability fields.

Clara initiated the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) that has engaged over 250 industry professionals to put together collaborative cross-sector policy recommendations for a zero-emissions London.

She has published articles for the CIBSE Journal and Modern Building Services advocating for positive change across the industry. Clara was recognised as the inaugural Engineer of the Year at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards as well as UKGBC’s Rising Star 2017 due to her work on energy policy and low energy building design.

As the Global Cities Director for Arcadis, John leads a billion-euro client portfolio of 20 cities including a global team of City Executives who are dedicated to delivering sustainable urban outcomes which improve a city’s quality of life and liveability.

Under John’s direction, the Global Cities Program aims to create liveable cities by improving resilience, mobility, and sustainable urbanization. His city executive team works with our urban clients to become more intelligent, by applying data analytics to make better decisions and create smarter cities. His global cities community provides a platform where colleagues across regions exchange insights about the most prominent urban issues, and initiate city-to-city collaboration.

Under his executive sponsorship, Arcadis has developed a number of city focused marketing campaigns, ranging from future mobility, decarbonization and the Sustainable Cities Index series, which was built around comparing and contrasting global cities according to the triple bottom line (people, planet and profit) as a way of evaluating urban sustainability. The indices’ methodology indicates where cities have an opportunity to improve quality of life and encourage sharing of global best practices. Under John’s direction, a Sustainable Cities Index was released in 2015, 2016, 2018 and one now planned for 2022. A Sustainable Cities Water Index was published in 2016 and a Sustainable Cities Mobility Index in 2017.

Prior to his current position, he was the Global Director of Water and the Director of Strategic Client Development for Arcadis North America. John has a wealth of experience which includes Sustainable Cities & Communities, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Public Health, Marketing & Branding, Water Utility Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Digital Thought Leadership & Public Speaking.
 

Mike is a Senior Policy Manager in the Transport Innovation Directorate at Transport for London. Mike is responsible for developing policy responses to new market entrants and business models, where innovative uses of technology have the potential to impact TfL’s business or change the complexion of travel in London. He currently has lead policy responsibility for micromobility, developing the pan-London approach to the current e-scooter rental trial and the regulatory approach to dockless bike sharing. 

Mike previously held a number of roles in the UK Department for Transport. These included the £1.6bn outsourcing of the search and rescue helicopter service from the military to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and financing a new £2.7bn fleet of intercity trains for the East Coast Main Line. He ran the private office of the Minister of State from 2014 to 2016, and before his move to TfL led a policy team reporting to Ministers in both the Department for Transport and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on improving air quality. 
 

Sarah joined Thames Water as Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Previously, Sarah was on the Executive Committee at Severn Trent plc where she was appointed as Chief Customer Officer in 2014, leading the Consumer Retail, Wholesale Network Operations, Group Technology and Transformation divisions. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Lloyds Bank plc and Bank of Scotland plc.
Before Severn Trent, Sarah was the managing partner for Accenture’s digital business unit in the UK & Ireland delivering digital transformation programs to a range of large UK consumer-facing businesses and was a member of the Accenture UK & Ireland Executive Committee. Prior to Accenture, Sarah worked internationally in a number of roles including strategy, marketing and propositions for BT’s Global Services division, CEO of Datapoint, an Alchemy-backed company delivering customer relationship management (CRM) services throughout Europe, and senior vice president of eLoyalty, a global CRM and marketing consultancy. She was SVP of the European business, led the sales and operations activity in North America and ran eLoyalty Ventures L.L.C. working in Silicon Valley, Austin and New York.
Sarah graduated from the University of Kent with a first-class honours degree in Management Science and Computing (BSc Hons) and is married with five children.

Theo was appointed in 2017 as London's first Chief Digital Officer to lead on London-wide digital transformation, data and smart city initiatives at City Hall.  Since then he has developed the Smart London Together Roadmap (2018) and initiated a series of programmes to build London’s collective capability for innovation including the establishment of the London Office of Technology and Innovation, the Mayor’s Civic Innovation Challenges and the Connected London Programme for fibre infrastructure.  Theo is currently supporting the city’s Recovery programme, developing a new London Datastore and a city-wide Charter for Emerging Technology.

Harry is a Senior Partner at McKinsey and leads their Sustainability practice in the UK, as well as McKinsey’s work in Green Growth (building new sustainability-focused businesses) globally. Prior to that, Harry led McKinsey’s Transport, Logistics and Infrastructure practice in the UK.

Across more than 15 years of advisory experience, Harry’s work has focused mainly on how the interface between the private and the public sector can be more productive, with particular focus on major project delivery across transport infrastructure, electricity generation and defence.

Harry is a published author of multiple papers on decarbonisation and adaptation, and he is a regular speaker on these topics seeking to galvanise senior executive to action. Harry leads McKinsey’s preparations for COP26 and our partnership with UNFCCC on resilience.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Harry was a Portfolio Manager at Procter & Gamble. He holds an MA in Modern History from Oxford University and an MPhil in Modern History from Cambridge University.

Wayne is a director in the team at Grant Thornton and is a financial adviser to local authorities, public sector bodies and private sector investors who want to participate in major capital projects across a number of sectors. This includes housing, stadia and student accommodation with the advice spanning many areas including funding, financial modelling and corporate structuring, as well as technical areas such as state aid and accounting. 

Wayne’s primary role is to lead on these projects and use the commercial advice provided to enable my clients to make informed decisions and achieve their strategic goals.

On a day-to-day basis, Wayne leads teams in assembling solutions to complex issues and ensuring that this is communicated to clients in a pragmatic manner which allows them to implement the advice effectively. 

This experience across a variety of projects, with many different characteristics, has allowed me to bring insight to new situations and help clients to ‘think outside the box’ which is often needed for projects that have feasibility and value for money barriers to overcome.

Wayne leads the funding and financial investment advice to MHCLG to the £3.6bn Towns Fund. Wayne to date has led a team in its review of 101 town investment plans and provided critical feedback to towns to ensure robust, deliverable submissions have been made to the department that are aligned to the strategic objectives of the Towns Fund. The next phase of the programme will be leading in the support to deliver the financial elements of the business case.

Extending this further Wayne has also led bids from various local authorities on both the Future High Street Fund and Levelling Up Fund, providing advice arounds strategy, funding and delivery models.

Outside of work, Wayne is a keen tennis player but also an enthusiast of horse racing and has been fortunate enough to own shares in a number of racehorses in recent years.

Andy Byford is a transport professional whose thirty year career has spanned three continents.

Andy joined London Underground in 1989 as a uniformed Station Foreman before working his way up to General Manager of the Bakerloo, Central and Victoria Lines.

After a spell as Operations and Safety Director of two mainline train operating companies, Andy’s career took him to Sydney as Chief Operating Officer of Australia’s largest railway network then on to Canada where he headed up the Toronto Transit Commission. Most recently, Andy served as President of New York City Transit, the busiest and largest transit system in North America.

Andy returned to Transport for London in June 2020 as Commissioner. He grew up in Plymouth and is a graduate of the University of Leicester.

Justin Carty is a Senior Director within CBRE. He is Head of the Residential Investment Advisory Team, a team focused on delivering public sector housing initiatives, and he also leads CBRE’s Affordable Housing Capital Markets Working Group – a multi-disciplinary cross company team focused on driving forward initiatives within the affordable housing sector. 

Justin qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2004 and the first 7 years of his career was spent working within the public sector delivering area based housing led regeneration schemes. He has been at CBRE for almost 15 years and has advised the public sector, investors, developers and funders on more than £10bn of strategic projects and transactions with notable mandates including:-

• Advising Homes England on its £105m PRS joint venture with the Berkeley Group
• Advised CBRE Global Investors Affordable Housing Fund on the Forward Funding of the £80m Abbey Place Scheme – a 245 unit project that will deliver 70% affordable housing
• Cardiff Capital Region on the formulation and delivery of its Housing Viability Gap Fund – a project that will see £45m invested into multiple housing projects across ten local authorities 
• Purfleet Centre – a £1bn 3,000 unit mixed use regeneration scheme being delivered by Thurrock Council, Swan Housing and Urban Catalyst. Justin advised on structuring the joint venture and also secured £75m of infrastructure funding to aid delivery of this project.
• Currently advising a Registered Provider on securing a £600m capital commitment from an institutional investor
• Led on the formulation of the business case for the £150m Estate Regeneration Fund
• Advised Homes England on more than £1bn of potential investments from its various funding programmes including Kickstart, Get Britain Building,  Build to Rent and the Housing Infrastructure Fund.

Justin founded CBRE’s Multi-Cultural Network, is Head of the CBRE Race Taskforce and a member of the CBRE UK Diversity Steering Group. Justin is also Vice Chairman of DiverseCity Surveyors, which focuses on promoting BAME equality across the property industry. His DCS activity has contributed to mentorship and work experience opportunities.

Ben is Chief Executive of L&G Affordable Homes.  L&G Affordable Homes is an institutionally-backed affordable housing developer and operator.  It started operations in 2019 with a Business Plan to develop 3,000 affordable homes pa by 2023 alongside delivering a sector-leading customer experience.  The business is on track to deliver these objectives, alongside increasing its programme of developing low carbon homes. 

Bens career has included roles in the private, not for profit, housebuilding and public sectors delivering housing, development and regeneration programmes and schemes.  He has a passion for delivering great schemes that make places and forming and growing high performing teams.

Philip Graham was appointed as Executive Director, Good Growth and joined the GLA in January 2020.

Phil joined the GLA from the National Infrastructure Commission where he was Chief Executive. Prior to that he was Head of the Independent Airports Commission after holding two Deputy Director roles in the Department for Transport (DfT) – responsible in one for the government’s high-speed rail strategy and in the other for transport security (including work on the Olympics) and research. Phil had several team leader roles in the Civil Service before that. Before he joined the Civil Service, Phil set up and ran an independent theatre company.
 

Tom specialises in delivering complex transformation programmes, with a particular focus on maximising value from capital investment portfolios. He is a Senior Manager in PwC’s Transport team, with experience working for clients including Network Rail and National Highways. Tom has a BA in Business Management and Finance and joined PwC in 2012. He is passionate about driving projects rooted in a clear purpose and in realising tangible benefits. He has a particular interest in driving towards Net Zero in Transport, recognising this needs to bring together multiple stakeholders all motivated towards the same end goal. In his spare time, Tom enjoys travelling, catching up with friends and walking through Calverley Woods, close to his home in Yorkshire.

Sir Peter Hendy has been the Chair of Network Rail since July 2015, and Chair of the London Legacy Development Corporation since July 2017. Sir Peter was previously Commissioner of Transport for London for nearly 10 years. He started his transport career in 1975 as a London Transport graduate trainee. He is a trustee of London’s Transport Museum and of the Science Museum Group. He was knighted in the 2013 New Year's Honours List, having been made CBE in 2006.

Jamie joined Uber in June 2018 as Regional General Manager for Northern and Eastern Europe. The role covers Uber’s rides business in more than 70 cities and 12 countries including the UK. Across Northern and Eastern Europe, Uber serves more than 110,000 drivers and around 8 million active riders.

Previously, Jamie was at Amazon, where he was Director of their Electronics division in the UK responsible for both the Retail and Marketplace businesses.

Before joining Amazon in 2014, Jamie spent 15 years in telecoms, where he was Managing Director of Virgin Mobile in the UK and launched Virgin Mobile in India and Orange in Thailand. He was also CEO of Virgin Mobile in China for three years and started his career in Asia working for the Swire Group.

Peter is Arcadis’ UK Cities Director and City Executive for London, accountable for key activity across the UK’s leading cities and in the capital. He also leads for Arcadis on Placemaking. A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with 24 years’ industry experience, he has a keen understanding of how to align built and natural assets to the vision, strategy and key priorities of our clients. He has a particular interest in creating successful cities. Peter has been involved in some of London’ biggest infrastructure programmes of recent years including the Jubilee Line Extension, St Pancras International Station and Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

During his time as CEO, Heathrow has consistently improved service levels for passengers, while reducing costs, and it is now rated one of the best airports in the world. Heathrow was named “Sustainable Business of the Year” at the edie awards and one of the Best Companies to work for by the Sunday Times.

He is a member of DEFRA’s Council for Sustainable Business, a member of HRH the Prince of Wales’ Sustainable Markets Council, and a Commissioner with the Energy Transitions Commission. John is also a Non-Executive Director at Thames Tideway.

Before becoming CEO in July 2014, he was Development Director, responsible for delivering the £2.5bn Terminal 2 on time and on budget. 

Prior to joining Heathrow, John worked in housebuilding with Taylor Wimpey, in brewing and leisure retail with Bass plc and as a strategy consultant with LEK. He has lived and worked in the UK, US, Australia and the Philippines.
 

Lucy has spent two decades living in London and working in infrastructure, taking many steps forward on inclusion and observing many still ahead. Originally from the North-East of England she studied Civil Engineering at Imperial College whilst working on nuclear shutdowns, residential projects, and recarpeting the Albert Hall. She was named NCE Graduate of the Year in 2004 for her contribution to the Kings Cross station redevelopment, before section managing the Kingsland Viaduct reinstatement for the East London Line. By 26 she was chartered, leading the construction of a new South Quay DLR station, and chairing Constructing Excellence’s G4C. She finished a decade of work as a Principal Contractor improving her division’s work winning rate with excellent technical submissions for Crossrail, London Underground and Network Rail, including time leading the enabling works for the new Liverpool Street station.  
 
In 2013 Lucy moved into programme and project management consultancy with Turner & Townsend to maximise outcomes delivered from clients’ assets; including work with London Overground, Network Rail, Heathrow Express and Heathrow Airport. She has progressed from Operations lead for the region, to Transport Sector Lead, to Head of Infrastructure Markets for the UK Infrastructure Board. She has been part of the Project 13 movement from chairing the Future Leaders Group in 2017 to Development Board member chairing the Capable Owner Working Group now. Lucy is also an active ICE committee member and on the London Mayor’s Infrastructure Advisory Panel focused on diversity. Lucy enjoys challenging perceptions of the ‘stereotypical construction leader’ as a working parent who openly shares her experience of recovery from burnout. She has actively supported our gender and diversability efforts, and sponsored our LGBT+ and ethnicity networks into existence, before recognising the common themes across under-represented groups to fuel nationally co-ordinated change.
 

Rebecca leads Uber UK's clean air and electrification work. This includes helping drivers switch into EVs through education and industry partnerships. Rebecca oversaw the launch of Uber Green in London earlier this year, enabling riders to choose a fully electric vehicle when in Zone 1 for the same price as a regular trip. She also oversees Uber's Clean Air Plan for London which aims to raise money for drivers to help them with the cost of purchasing an EV. To date, the plan has raised over £140m, which has helped increase the number of Uber drivers in an EV from 100 in 2019 to over two thousand today.

Akshay is responsible for the economic regulation of Great Britain’s energy networks. This includes the development of the next generation of onshore network price controls called RIIO2, the regulation of offshore transmission infrastructure; and the delivery of an ambitious cross-border interconnection programme through the cap and floor regime.  

Prior to joining Ofgem, Akshay was on secondment from HM Treasury to Transport for London, where he led TfL’s work on funding transport infrastructure in London by capturing the uplift in land and property values associated with transport projects such as Barking Riverside Extension, Crossrail 2 and the Bakerloo Line Extension. This followed a spell of five years at HM Treasury, where Akshay directed energy and transport projects for Infrastructure UK, a specialist infrastructure unit responsible for the planning, prioritisation, funding, financing and delivery of economic infrastructure. He has been involved in the design and delivery of electricity market reform, the competition for carbon capture and storage, the development of the new nuclear energy programme, the reform of the strategic roads network and regeneration projects such as the Northern Line extension to Battersea Power Station in London, the UK’s first large scale tax increment financing scheme. He also directed the production of the National Infrastructure Plan in 2011.

Earlier in his career, Akshay worked for ten years with Partnerships UK, a joint venture between HM Treasury and the private sector, on the delivery of projects in the transport, health, education and housing sectors under the Government’s private finance initiative. He started his career in India, where he worked in investment banking and project finance for energy, transport and industrial projects for the IL&FS Group, a major Indian financial institution. Akshay studied economics, finance, management, and bioscience, at the London School of Economics, the universities of London and Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Management.

Sandra works together with business leaders and government policy makers to influence action on race in the UK.  Prior to working at Business in the Community Sandra worked for DWP and the Cabinet Office. Between 2012 and 2016, Sandra chaired the DWP Ethnic Minority Employment Stakeholder Group, advising the Government on employment barriers facing individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds. The Race at Work survey that she launched in 2015 and 2018 with more than 24,000 responses provided the evidence to create the McGregor-Smith: Race in the workplace Review Scorecard and establish the Race at Work Charter which now has more than 760 employer signatories. 

In 2012 Sandra received an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours for Services to Black and Minority Ethnic people and in 2019 Sandra was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list for Services to Equality and Diversity.  Sandra also sits on the Royal Society Diversity Committee, the ONS Centre for Equalities and Inclusion Strategic Advisory Board and the Cabinet Office Race Board. 

She is a big advocate of mentorship, sponsorship and allyship. 
 

Lisa is a senior engagement and public relations professional with extensive experience of leading multi-disciplinary communications and stakeholder engagement teams. She has achieved key communications milestones for the most significant major engineering projects in the UK, including HS1, HS2, The London Olympics and Crossrail and specialises in inclusive engagement strategies for the most controversial and challenging of project areas involving significant change.

Lisa is also an Executive Sponsor of Harambee, a Jacobs network committed to positively impacting the Black employee experience through the recruitment, development, and retention of Black talent. Lisa has mentored Harambee ambassadors to help them grow the network’s membership, and has promoted the group’s work, objectives, and successes through multiple internal communication channels across Europe. She has also stepped forward to support the team in designing and delivering engagement events and to amplify the group's voice to senior leadership, as well as using her professional network to find advocates and external speakers to Harambee’s activities. Since the global launch of Jacobs’ Action Plan for Advancing Justice and Equality, Lisa has worked to set actionable and measurable objectives to address systemic racial inequalities. 

Lisa is named on INvolve’s 2021 EMpower ethnic minority role model lists which recognise and celebrate business leaders and future leaders who are breaking down barriers at work and inspiring the next generation of diverse talent.

 

John is an Executive Director at Peabody leading one of London’s largest regeneration programmes which will position Thamesmead as London’s New Town creating 20,000 new homes of all tenure types to help meet the Capital’s housing needs.

Previously he spent 6 years as CEO of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, a self-funded charitable organisation providing support services to maintain and enhance the world’s first garden city.  John joined the Heritage foundation from Milton Keynes Partnership, a government funded delivery agency, where he was CEO responsible for the economic and housing growth of the new city.

John is a professional member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has a Master of Arts in Urban Regeneration.  He is the Chair of Greatwell Homes a Northamptonshire based Housing Association and is a Director of the Creative Land Trust, a charity established to secure affordable workspace for creatives in London.

Cllr Merrill was appointed the Cabinet Lead for Transport, Environment and Sustainability in May 2021. Previously she was the Cabinet Lead for Regeneration, Planning and Growth; and before that was Chair of Planning for two years.

Donald Morrison is People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President Europe and Digital Strategies at Jacobs and leads over 8,000 people in the delivery of critical buildings, power, transport, water and environmental projects.

In his 28 years at Jacobs Donald has enjoyed a variety of experiences and successes alongside enthusiastic teams and inspirational leaders. He is passionate about people and strives to develop an environment where everyone can unleash their potential by leveraging the strengths and diversity of individuals and teams to deliver solutions that challenge the norm.

A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Donald believes there could always be a better way and empowers his teams to look at challenges from a different perspective. He endeavours to build inclusive and diverse teams that deliver with integrity and do the right thing for clients, communities and each other. 

Simon Murphy is the Chief Executive Officer of Battersea Power Station Development Company (BPSDC), leading the team managing the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station and its surrounding 42-acre site, on behalf of a consortium of Malaysian shareholders.

Simon is responsible for the overall corporate direction and strategy of the project with one of his key priorities being to successfully restore the Power Station for generations to come and enjoy. He joined BPSDC in 2011 as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and also became Deputy CEO in 2015. Prior to commencing corporate side work, he spent a large part of his career as an investment banker, principally with HSBC, where he was a Managing Director. He was responsible for strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt capital markets for corporate clients including those within the property sector. He remains a non-executive director of a number of public and private companies. Simon is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and has a BSc in Economics.

Matthew is Director of Place at the London Borough of Bexley and has held that position since October 2020. In his role he is responsible for planning, housing, regeneration, environment services, economic development, highways and leisure. Matthew has over 20 years of experience of working across local government, starting as a graduate trainee at Westminster in the late 1990s before working at Lambeth, Westminster (for a second time) and Greenwich, as well as at the Cabinet Office. Before Matthew moved to Bexley he was chief executive of the Thames Gateway Kent Partnership and an executive director of the new Thames Estuary Growth Board, working closely with Kate Willard in her role as Estuary Envoy to accelerate regeneration across the Thames Estuary. Matthew has a track record of developing diverse partnerships that get things done, service transformation and bringing creative solutions to long-standing problems. 

Julia Prescot is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Meridiam and sits on the Executive Committee of Meridiam SAS. In addition, she is a non-executive director at Infraco Asia and Infraco Africa Investments, a non-executive director of the IPFA, and a member of the Advisory Board of Glennmont Partners, a fund focussed on renewable energy. She was previously a non-executive Director at Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund.
 
She is a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School, University College London. Julia has also sat on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Infrastructure and contributes to the Brookings Institute Initiative on Urban Accessiblity, and is currently involved with the OECD Blended Finance Initiative. She was also the co-founder of the Women Leaders in Infrastructure Group.
 

Shirley Rodrigues was appointed as London Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy in October 2016.  She has devised and delivered environmental policies and programmes in London, nationally and internationally for government and philanthropy including most recently overseeing a global cities and climate change grants portfolio at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

She is now working to deliver the Mayor of London’s vision to make the city a fairer, greener, healthier and more sustainable one. This includes ambitious programmes to reduce air pollution across London including the expansion of the world’s first Ultra Low Emission Zone, making London carbon neutral by 2030 and spearheading London’s economic and social recovery from the impacts of Covid-19 through a Green New Deal.

Bek Seeley is the European Managing Director for Development at Lendlease.

In her current role Bek is responsible for leading the Development business to successfully deliver Lendlease’s European pipeline including the Over-Station Development at Euston, Thamesmead Waterfront, Birmingham Smithfield, Elephant Park, Silvertown Quays, IQL Stratford, Deptford Landings and High Road West.

Most recently she held the position of Chief Operating Officer for Development and was instrumental in winning a number of major projects for Lendlease, as well as overseeing operations and driving overall growth of the business. 

Before joining Lendlease in 2015 Bek’s career spanned the public and private sectors, having held a range of operational and commercial roles in economic development, infrastructure, built environment and public services. 

Ben is a leading insight practitioner, conducting research and providing strategic advice to high-level clients including The Cabinet Office, Thames Water, Sports England, The Home Office, British Gas, The FCA, The National Trust, McDonald’s, PWC and Shelter alongside a wide range of other private and third sector organisations. He specialises in policy, positioning, campaign and communication advice rooted in qualitative and quantitative insight.

Ben appears regularly in the media, commenting on public opinion and political sentiment, and he writes frequently for a range of newspapers, magazines and websites.
 

Lawrence Slade became Chief Executive Officer of the Global Infrastructure Investor Association (GIIA) in January 2020. GIIA represents investors with over US$1tn AUM. Prior to his role with GIIA Lawrence Slade worked with Energy UK since 2011, becoming their Chief Executive in January 2015, additionally he served on the boards of Eurogas and Eurelectric in Brussels. He has been involved in the energy industry since the late 1990’s working in countries all over the world. Lawrence is currently a Board member of Connected Kerb, a Board Trustee and Audit Committee member of the Money Advice Trust (who run the National Debtline and Business Debtline) and is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute

With more than 20 years’ senior leadership experience across the public and private sectors, Dougie has developed, acquired, sold and operated several major national infrastructure and public service businesses. He started his career in the British Army, with tours in Northern Ireland and Iraq. He was on the board of Interserve before joining Cory as Chief Executive Officer. He is a Director on the Environmental Services Association Board and holds an honours degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.

Cllr Johnny Thalassites is a Councillor for Holland ward and Lead Member for Planning, Place and Environment in Kensington and Chelsea. In the past five years the Royal Borough has cut carbon emissions faster than any London borough.

Pablo is the General Manager of Madrid Futuro, a private entity to foster the development of the City. Previously, he has held different management positions in the world of education (Dean of CUNEF and Director of Fedea) and in the area of infrastructures (CEO of Renfe, the railway operator in Spain, and of Ineco, an engineering company specialized in infrastructure). In the public sector, Pablo has worked in the Prime Minister's cabinet and has been Undersecretary of Health. Pablo is also Senior Advisor at Mckinsey & Co

Dr. Katja Wiesbrock Donovan is a former career diplomat and attorney in the German Federal Foreign Office with experience in various professional fields and diverse cultures. She now manages 1014, a new US not-for-profit corporation that offers a convening space in New York City where people from both sides of the Atlantic explore challenges and opportunities across the world of culture, ideas, and society. Together with Steven Sokol, the President of the American Council on Germany, she has moderated the virtual trans-Atlantic talk series “Resilience and Adaptation” that analyses the current public health, economic, and social crises and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on our cities and societies in Europe and the United States. In 23 episodes since April 2020, experts have discussed the future of work, education, architecture and urban design, tourism and gastronomy, the role of civil society, etc.

Will Wilson is the CEO of Siemens Mobility Limited and as one the transport industry’s highest-profile LGBTQ+ leaders is passionate about diversity and inclusion. A former Army Officer who has had an extensive career in the transport industry both in the UK and abroad, Wilson is now responsible for over 4,500 people and four major UK manufacturing sites.

Matthew is the Head of Projects, Consents and Urban Design at Transport for London, with over 25 years’ experience in developing and implementing strategies, policies and projects in highly complex and political environments. His team lead the development of major projects and support TfL in obtaining the necessary powers and consents to implement its portfolio.
Matthew’s team is currently leading the assessment of the proposed Docklands Light Railway (DLR) extension to Thamesmead. 

Achievements include obtaining powers to build the Northern Line extension, the Emirates Airline – the UK’s first urban cable car, the London Overground extension to Barking Riverside, Silvertown Tunnel, several station improvement projects and formulated the initial business case for Crossrail 2. His work informs the Mayor’s Transport Strategy and London’s Spatial Development Strategy – the London Plan.

Matthew has worked in a variety of roles for both public and private sector organisations, predominantly focussing on transportation and spatial development.
 

Now in her second Micro-mobility company with Unicorn status, Georgia has worked in partnership with many cities across the globe, to reach their active and sustainable transport goals through micro-mobility. A firm believer that collaboration and partnership underpin sustainable services, Georgia now heads up TIER’s UK & Ireland partnership with Cities and is responsible for commercial performance, rider experience and community impact. Alongside, Georgia is a passionate advocate for inclusion and accessibility, and contributes to raising the volume of women and underrepresented groups in tech & mobility both in and outside of the workplace.