Martin Willey, RTPI President
Martin Willey, RTPI President for 2009, is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. He currently runs a consultancy, YTP Regeneration Partnerships, giving advice on planning and business strategy in the public and private sectors. Martin is also a Governor of the City Academy Bristol, a non executive director of Wells Cathedral Stonemasons and Chair of the NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit.
His career spans the public private and partnership sectors including: Chief Planning Officer for Harrogate Borough Council; Director of Technical Services for Aylesbury Vale District Council; Managing Director of Beazer Projects the private sector partner for the Bridgewater Hall scheme in Manchester; CEO of the Western Development Partnership for economic development in the Bath/Bristol area; and COO of the English Cities Fund a public/private investment body responsible for city centre fringe schemes throughout England.
At the RTPI he has chaired committees on Policy, Education and Regions & Nations and chaired the Executive Board in 2008. He also created and chaired the first RTPI Network, The Regeneration Network that was the forerunner of the now 16 Networks offering improved member services in different sectors.
Martin is married to Philippa and they have four children and two grandchildren. His interests include education, rugby, prints and etchings and supporting his wife's Carriage Driving for Disabled charity in Somerset. His Presidential Charity is LINK Community Development, an educational charity for children in South Africa.

Prof George Hazel - Robert Gordon University
Professor Hazel is Chairman of MRC McLean Hazel Ltd a consultancy specialising in providing transport and urban development advice, concepts and solutions for the public and private sectors.  MRC McLean Hazel is the UK and European arm of the McCormick Rankin Corporation (MRC) which has offices across Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in the UK and Europe in Edinburgh, Yorkshire and Brussels. MRC is a long established transportation and highway consultancy with over 400 staff worldwide.  MRC part of the MMM Group a Canadian civil and transport consultancy of around 1500 people. Professor Hazel is an Honorary Professor at both Queensland University of Technology and the Robert Gordon University, past Chair of the National Advisory Forum of Transport 2000’s Reclaiming Main Roads Initiative, was a member of the Lorry Road User Charging Advisory Group and an Advisor to Transport 2000’s Policy Council and the Commission for Integrated Transport in London.  He was a member of the UK Secretary of State’s Steering Group on National Road User Charging and was also President of the Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT), Chairman of the Urban Areas Committee (C10) of PIARC/the World Roads Congress and Chair of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy’s Transport Commission. He was Chair of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) in 2005 and 2006 and in 2005 was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to Transport.  He specialises in strategic urban and transport studies and his work includes the book “Making Cities Work” and the Megacities Report for Siemens launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2007. He is currently International Advisor on congestion management to the Queensland Government in Australia and advisor to the MMM team working in various parts of the world.
Previously he was Professor of Transport Policy at the Centre for Transport Policy where he looked after the consultancy business. From 1996 to 1999 he was Director of City Development for the City of Edinburgh Council responsible for planning, economic development, transportation and property. The Department had a staff of 1200.  From 1993 to 1996 he was Director of Transportation for Lothian Regional Council again with a staff of 1200.  During these two periods Professor Hazel worked with Professor David Begg who was Chair of Transport for the Councils. Together they introduced many interesting new initiatives including Greenways bus priority, the first car-free development in the UK, the first community car club in the UK and the reallocation of space back to people in areas like the Royal Mile in Edinburgh Old Town. 
From 1989 to 1993 he was a main board Director with TPA (now Faber Maunsell) where he was responsible for Scotland and UK private sector developments.
From 1979 to 1989, he was with Napier University as a transport specialist. Under his guidance the Department of Civil Engineering became the largest centre of transport research expertise in Scotland and one of the most important in the UK. In 1986 he was made Head of Department and in 1987 became the first Professor of Transportation in Scotland.
His initial training, following graduation was in Local Government where he worked from 1971 to 1979.
Professor Hazel graduated in 1971 in Civil Engineering from Heriot-Watt University; he remains a Chartered Civil Engineer. He also holds an MSc in Transportation and a PhD in the Traffic Impact of Large Retail Developments.
He lists his hobbies as restoring vintage cars, golf, skiing and travel. His wife Fiona is a physiotherapist and he has three children Anna, Jennifer and Andrew.

Andrew Forster, Editor of Local Transport Today
Andrew Forster has been editor of Local Transport Today since 2001. This is his second stint on the magazine, having worked on it from 1995 to 1997. Between times, he was a transport policy officer at the City of Edinburgh Council and a research fellow at the Centre for Transport Policy, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. He was awarded a PhD in 1995 from the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds for research into urban transport policy-formulation.

Glenn Barcham - Assistant Director, Highways and Transport, Bedford Borough Council

Mike Bedwell, Executive Director, Waterham Boreham
Executive Director,  B.Sc.(Hons), C.Eng., MICE, FIHT. Mike sits on the Board of Waterman Boreham and also on the Business Development Board.
Mike is responsible for new client and business development, strategic transport planning guidance and delivery on high profile projects.
With his fellow Directors, Mike shares overall responsibility for the professional standards within the company and the quality and relevance of the advice given, throughout all of the company’s offices. As a member of the Executive Board, Mike provides input to the strategic thinking, driving the company’s continued growth.
A Chartered Engineer, with over 25 years experience in transportation planning, traffic engineering and highway design, he is currently involved in a wide range of projects throughout the UK.
Mike advises clients on various aspects of highways and transportation relating to existing and proposed developments across a wide spectrum of land uses including food and non-food retail, housing, mixed-use schemes, roadside facilities, industrial, office and leisure sector developments.
He has delivered papers at both transport industry, and client specific, seminars and presented highway proposals to planning authority officers, committee members and members of the public.
Mike has specialised in the expert witness role on highways and transportation issues for over 20 years.
He has given expert evidence at more than 75 public inquiries on highways and transportation issues in relation to planning applications, compulsory purchase orders and development plan reviews. Many of these have been high profile, multiple party, cases with some of the country’s top QCs.
The issues raised at inquiry vary in their nature and, although transport related, often involve issues of noise, vibration and air quality, dealt with by professional colleagues. Transport topics often raised are highway capacity and safety, car parking, accessibility by non-car modes, servicing and layout.
He has acted for residential developers like Redrow Homes and Bryant Homes, foodstore operators like Tesco, non-food retail specialists like B&Q, roadside service area (RSA) developers and motorway service area (MSA) developers and operators throughout the motorway network. Other cases have involved golf driving ranges, restaurants and his first case, in 1987, related to a fish farm!
Mike is well known within the legal profession for his professionalism, thoroughness, diligence and tenacity, and also for his wider contribution within the professional team. He mentors newcomers to the expert witness role within Waterman Boreham.

William Hicks QC
William came to the Bar with the intention of specialising in planning. He was called in 1975 and took silk in 1995. He was joint head of Eldon Chambers one of the two Chambers which merged to form Landmark Chambers. He has been involved in a wide range of planning work for over 25 years. Some particular areas of expertise are retail, residential, highways, infrastructure, transportation, listed buildings, environment and energy.
As in previous years, he is listed as a leading silk in planning in Chambers & Partners Directory 2008 & 2009.

Julia Gregory, Head of transport, Planning and Policy, Stansted Airport, BAA
Julia joined BAA in June 2003 as its Transport Planning Manager at Stansted Airport. In the subsequent 4 years Julia led the transport team and its consultants through the successful Generation 1 planning application and inquiry process. In July 2008, her role expanded to include all planning and policy matters for the airport.
Prior to her time at BAA, Julia spent 16 years in Essex and Berkshire in transport planning and strategy roles and finally as a senior development control officer for the Highways and Transportation Department at Essex County Council. She has a wide range of transport infrastructure and transport planning experience across all modes of transport – road, bus/coach, rail and aviation, negotiating and delivering planning agreements, as well as the development and implementation of transport strategies and plans.
In 2008, Julia accepted the prize for an outstanding mobility plan for a major employer from the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany on behalf of Stansted Airport.

Tom Rice, Travel Plan Coordinator, Transport for London
Tom coordinates the Transport for London (TfL) employee travel plan, working in TfL’s Integrated Programmes Delivery Directorate (formerly the Smarter Travel Unit).  He manages delivery of the plan across the organisation, including London Underground, London Rail, Surface Transport and Corporate business areas.  This involves the continual implementation, communication & monitoring of the travel plan’s action plan, and moving the plan forward; embedding its aims and objectives within TfL’s processes & behaviours.
Having previously worked for a National Rail Train Operating Company, Tom joined the TfL graduate scheme in 2005.  His time on the scheme included work with the Olympic Route Network Team and an external placement with the Greater London Authority (GLA) where he coordinated the GLA Travel Plan.  Tom followed completion of the scheme with business management and transport planning roles in the (former) Directorate of Road Network Development and TLRN Planning Unit respectively, before taking up the TfL Travel Plan appointment in Nov 2008.
Tom has a BSc in Geography from the University of Salford and an MSc in Transport Planning & Management from the University of Westminster.

Jon Harris, Technical Director – Smarter Choices, Mouchel
(MRTPI, FCILT, MIHT) has been a practitioner in town and transport planning since 1989, and has experience of a wide range of planning, highways and policy roles, including planning appeals and inquiries and the smarter travel agenda. Over the last 20 years he has spent 9 in local government, 2 working full time for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and a further 9  in consultancy. Jon’s specialisms include the DDA/access for all agendas, Smarter Choices, (including cycling/walking development and travel planning) and managing large scale planning applications through the development process. He has provided expert witness evidence on planning, transport and sustainability for a number of urban extensions and has been involved in the development of major residential and mixed use wide area travel plans to help facilitate development.

Prof Peter Jones - Professor of Transport and Sustainability, University College London
Peter Jones is Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development, in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London (UCL). He moved there in 2005 from the post of Director of the Transport Studies Group at the University of Westminster. He is Director designate of the UK Transport Research Centre, which is currently in its set up phase and is being jointly funded by the Department for Transport, the ESRC and the Scottish Government.
He is a member of the UK Independent Transport Commission, the IHT Urban Design Group and an Overseas Special Advisor to the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, Japan. He was previously a member of Transport for London’s Evaluation Group for Network Management Planning, and the European Commission’s CIVITAS Advisory Committee.
His research interests are wide ranging, from international transport comparisons, policy formulation, impact studies (congestion charging, Jubilee Line Extension, Smarter Choices), public attitudes, travel behaviour, the development of new survey, analysis and evaluation methods, to improvements to the planning and design of urban streets. He led the work on Option Generation in the EPSRC funded DISTILLATE project.

Neil Paulley, Director of TRL Academy
Neil Paulley MSc FIHT is Director of the Academy at the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL). He gained his MSc in mathematics at Manchester University in 1971 and has since had 37 years’ experience in transport planning. He has worked extensively in the area of transport policy and demand forecasting, having a particular interest in the underlying causes of observed travel patterns, in behavioural responses to investment initiatives and in the relationships between land use and transport.
As Director of TRL Academy Neil has responsibility for science and engineering activities and their strategic development at TRL, for formulating and ensuring delivery of longer-term research programmes and for ensuring technical quality across the company. He is responsible for numerous publications, regularly speaks or chairs sessions at national and international conferences and is a member of several advisory boards. He is a director of the Association for European Transport, is on the editorial board of Transport Policy and of the Transactions on Transportation Sciences, is a member of the US TRB International Activities Committee and is a Fellow of the Institution of Highways and Transportation and of the Transport Research Foundation.

John Qualtrough, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell
John is a partner in the planning and major projects group at Bircham Dyson Bell. He has extensive experience in town and country planning and related matters including environmental assessment, highway issues and legal challenges in the courts. John has advised on a substantial number of planning and development projects across a range of sectors including, preparing projects for consideration at public inquiry as well as the drafting, negotiation and completion of Section 106 agreements, undertakings and related highway agreements. He has taken a particular interest in the development of the Community Infrastructure Levy. John is a member of the City of London Law Society’s (Planning and Environmental Law) Sub-Committee) and the Westminster and Holborn Law Society’s (Planning Law) Committee.

Richard Fullager, Legible London Delivery Manager

Gordon Baker, Chairman, JMP Consultants Ltd
Gordon is Chairman of JMP with a specific leadership role in the Company’s sustainability vision, ensuring that it delivers world-leading solutions in the transport and travel sectors. Gordon has extensive experience in land-use and transport demand studies, with author contributions in a number of technical reference publications; for example, “Transport in the Urban Environment”. He was one of the first of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Visiting Professors in Engineering Design for Sustainable Development where he had a specific focus on developing case study material for the transport sector. More recently, he has had a direct involvement in Scotland’s Smarter Choices Smarter Place programme through PTP activity in Dundee, and has been a leading promoter for JMP’s findings from the STEPS project with SDC/OGC.
Gordon is married to Lynne, a schoolteacher, and they have two “children”. Jamie is 23 and is a professional tennis player and Steven, aged 26, works in the City. In his spare time, Gordon is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Tennis Scotland.

Stephen Hammond MP, Shadow Minister for Transport
After graduating in Economics, Stephen began a career in finance at a leading fund management house and subsequently worked for major investment banks. He was appointed a Director of the Equities division of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in 1994 and four years later joined Commerzbank Securities. In 2000 he was promoted to Director, Pan European Research, with responsibility for seventy professionals based in London and across Europe.
Stephen was as elected a Councillor in Wimbledon in 2002 - polling the highest vote of any candidate in the borough. He became Deputy Group Leader and a member of the Overview and Scrutiny Commission. In May 2005 Stephen was elected Member of Parliament for Wimbledon. He was promoted to the front bench as Shadow Minister for Transport in December of the same year. He has specific responsibility for Rail and Buses.

Jenny Jones - former Chair of the Green Party and London Assembly Member
Jenny Jones is an ex-archaeologist and former chair of the Green Party. She has been a member of the London Assembly since 2000 and was elected as the first Green member on Southwark Council in 2006. In the previous mayoral administration Jenny was the chair of London Food, the Mayor’s road safety ambassador, and the Mayor’s green transport adviser. Jenny is also the former Deputy Mayor of London.  Since elected to the Assembly, Jenny has worked to secure safer roads, improved facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, reductions in road crimes and traffic, and excellent public transport for all users.  In her former role as chair of London Food, Jenny played an important part in shaping the mayoral Food Strategy for London. Issued in 2006, the strategy set a framework for bringing healthy, sustainable, diverse and affordable food to all Londoners. Jenny has sought to improve the food that is on offer to Londoners and to reduce its environmental impact. Jenny has consistently called for greater police resources for the enforcement of road traffic laws, and for stronger protection of civil liberties. In all her roles Jenny has raised awareness of the dangers of climate change and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse emissions. Jenny has been a member of the project board that has lead the delivery of the East London Green Grid of open spaces. In 2004, Jenny was named as one of 200 'women of achievement'.

Nick Rabbets, Dorset County Council (invited)

Gavin Gaunt - Head of Project Modelling and Appraisal, Department for Transport
Gavin Gaunt is head of the Project Modelling and Appraisal team at the Department for Transport. Gavin started his career as a researcher at the Transport Research Laboratory before focussing on modelling. He played a key role in establishing the National Transport Model as a tool for policy analysis, led the in-house modelling of road-pricing options at DfT, was a member of the Eddington Transport Study team, and more recently programme managed the NATA Refresh – the Department’s review of their appraisal framework. He is now responsible for the development of transport modelling expertise within the Department and the production and dissemination of guidance via WebTAG.

Alex Sully, Managing Consultant, Transport Initiatives
Alex has over twenty years continuous experience of cycling policy, design and implementation and a growing international reputation. Closer to home he is a managing partner with Transport Initiatives and a member of the team that provides guidance to local authorities as part of Cycling England’s Professional Support Service. Alex is also a certified BYPAD auditor (EU-funded Bicycle Policy AuDit process) and is currently involved in projects in the UK and Poland. In addition to his understanding of cycling infrastructure he is credited with introducing the concept of Invisible Infrastructure (non cycle-specific measures that create a more cycle-friendly environment).

Christopher Fisher, Principal, Fisher Associates
Chris Fisher has some 25 years experience in the marine industries and is an acknowledged specialist in maritime consultancy. He founded Fisher Associates (www.fisherassoc.co.uk), and developed the practice from its origins in studies for international agencies, to its current position as a leading provider of management consultancy services in the marine sector in the UK.
He has undertaken assignments that provide background in most aspects of the marine community. Examples include market research, analysis, economic studies, and developing strategy and action planning. He was Project Manager for a study on development of waterborne passenger transport for Pembrokeshire County Council. He has recently undertaken a study for Dorset County Council in connection with developing sea passenger transport service on the Jurassic Coast, and into Christchurch Bay and Torbay. He has also undertaken or been involved in several studies related to development of ferry services around the UK and elsewhere.
In addition to 13 years as Principal of Fisher Associates, and three years in business development for an international maritime company, he was employed for several years as an Associate with Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultancy Services. Working within the Strategy & Economics group, this provided grounding for his consulting career. He holds an MSc in International Shipping (with distinction).

Sheila Moorcroft, Research Director, Shaping Tomorrow
Sheila is a strategic futures research consultant with over 25 years experience helping clients identify and assess the implications of changes in their business environment and to develop strategic responses to maximise the potential of opportunities while reducing the exposure to risk.
An expert in social foresight, trend analysis and scenarios, Sheila is particularly interested in how social change shapes the uptake or rejection of new technologies, future markets and policy development and has conducted projects on mobility in future cities; future communities for older people; intelligent transport; and regional economic developments. Other recent futures projects include: trends affecting policies promoting sustainable development for a UK government department; mini scenarios on the economic and policy implications of in/outflow of migrant workers for a local authority; a long term research strategy for an Irish University; socio-economic scenarios of Ireland to 2025 for an Irish government agency, to support an enterprise economy.
Sheila writes a weekly Trend Alert for Shaping Tomorrow’s clients and facilitates workshops with senior civil servants at futurefocus in BIS to support policy development in areas such as uptake of industrial biotechnology processes, marine technologies, innovation in services, sustainable development - among others.

Robbie Owen, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell
Robbie is a solicitor and a parliamentary agent. Since 1991 he has been a partner at law firm Bircham Dyson Bell LLP, where he specialises in the promotion of transport and other major infrastructure projects. Together with his colleagues he has been involved in the planning consents process (e.g. Hybrid Bills, Private Bills, Transport and Works Act Orders, Harbour Orders and planning permissions) for most contemporary rail, urban transport, port & harbour, bridge and tunnel projects in the UK.
He acts, amongst others, for Docklands Light Railway Limited, Transport for London, DP World, Merseytravel, Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council, the Environment Agency and English Welsh & Scottish Railway Limited.
Since early 2007 Robbie has been a member of the Planning Sounding Board, set up by the Cabinet Office and now run by DCLG to give advice and views in relation to the May 2007 planning white paper and subsequent Planning Bill.

Paul Tomlinson - Associate Environmental Planner, Scott Wilson
Paul is an Associate with over 28 years experience in environmental assessment, specialising in the assessment of transport policies, plans and projects.  He has managed the environmental dimensions of high-speed rail, motorway and trunk road projects as well as air quality and equality issues associated with the proposed expansion at Heathrow. 
Paul has managed the preparation of Strategic Environmental Assessments for several Local Transport Plans as well as for the public transport plan in Santiago, Chile.  He directed the Welsh Transport and Freight Strategy SEAs as well as delivered the Appropriate Assessment for the Welsh Spatial Plan. 
He has assisted the Department for Transport through a variety of commissions including research on community severance, road pricing, a review of transport appraisals for TIF applications and in the development of SEA methodologies for multi-modal studies.  Paul was responsible for the modernisation of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges Volume 11 – Environmental Assessment and for the development of an expert system for screening and scoping the assessment of Highways Agency projects.  Also for the Highways Agency he established and delivered their internal quality control system for WebTAG appraisals and delivered training to consultants.  Recently he has developed a transport project prioritisation tool for Stoke City Council.
Paul has over 7 years organised training and prepared in-house guidance materials for Natural England on transport policy as well as prepared consultation responses on national consultations.   He has delivered research into use of the Environmental Capital Methodology as part of the NATA Refresh and on the coverage of rural transport issues in LTP2s and Regional Transport Strategies.   He presented Natural England views on Regional Transport Strategies at two EIPs.
As part of his role in leading the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Environmental Planning & Protection Network, Paul has lead work on incorporating the health agenda into spatial planning that recently led to the publication of a Good Practice Note on Delivering Healthy Communities.  He has also prepared guidance on health and transport planning.  He has been appointed to the NICE working group on spatial planning and health, has contributed to the NHS Good Corporate Citizenship model and also understands the links between climate change, transport and health. 

Graham Wright, Associate Transport Planner, Scott Wilson
Graham has over twenty years experience as a transport planner for both the local public sector and private sector consultancy. He is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Following periods undertaking transport policy and strategy development for both West Sussex and Hampshire county council's Graham joined the Hampshire Transport Development Control team working on strategic development proposals across the county. This was followed by a Team Leader role at the then newly formed unitary, Portsmouth City Council where Graham provided the lead role for development control and transport strategy.
Graham's next move was to lead the newly formed Salisbury Transportation Team that was set up to implement an alternative strategy following cancellation of the Salisbury A36 Bypass by the newly elected Labour Government. The team, which was jointly staffed and supported by Wiltshire County Council and the then Salisbury District Council participated and then implemented the outcome of the first Government-led Multi-modal Study that looked at alternatives to road building.
Graham joined Atkins in 2004 where he led a transport planning team that advised mainly local authority clients on development control local transport policy and strategy development. In particular this focused on preparatory work for the second round of local transport plans (LTP). Graham has been with Scott Wilson for 2 years where he currently provides the lead for high level transport strategy advice to a wide range of private sector and public sector clients including support to local authorities in preparing LTP Progress Reports.

Steve Williams, Local Transport Plan Manager, Dorset County Council
Steve has worked for Dorset County Council for over 30 years joining as a Graduate Engineer in the Structure Plan Team in 1974 where he was involved in traffic surveys, transportation studies and modelling and plan preparation. He has been involved in various transport studies of the South East Dorset conurbation including the latest multi modal study currently being prepared. In 1988 he first became involved in the annual TPP (Transport, Policy and Programmes) submission, where he worked on one of the first “package bids” for Bournemouth and Poole. On Local Government reorganisation in 1997 he moved to County Hall to look after, first  the TPP then the LTP process in the rest of the County. Steve currently leads a small team undertaking LTP preparation, monitoring and implementation. This includes considerable partnership working with Bournemouth Borough Council and the Borough of Poole. His team is also responsible for scheme priority assessment and rolling forward the 5 year LTP improvements programme.