Speakers
Dr Agis D. Tsouros, Head, Policy and Cross-cutting Programmes and Regional Director’s Special Projects, World Health Organization, Denmark
Professor Rob Adams, Director of Design and Culture at the City of Melbourne
Professor Rob Adams decades of seminal work as an architect and urban designer, including his role in revitalising the face of Melbourne, was recognised in 2007 with an Order of Australia (AM) for services to urban design, town planning and architecture. In 2008 he became the Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year at the Banksia Awards.
As Director of Design and Culture at the City of Melbourne, He continues to champion the arts and environmental sustainability as part of the city's development platform into the 21st century.
Peter Kenyon, Director of The Bank of Ideas WA
Peter Kenyon is a social capitalist and community enthusiast. Over the last two decades he has worked with over 1000 communities throughout Australia and overseas seeking to facilitate fresh and creative ways that stimulate community and economic renewal. He is motivated by the desire to create healthy, caring, inclusive, sustainable and enterprising communities and local economies.
Peter has had a background as a youth worker, teacher, youth education officer and tertiary lecturer. His employment experiences have also included Director of Employment in Western Australia, Manager of the Community Employment Development Unit in New Zealand and Coordinator of the Natal Kwazulu Job Creation and Enterprise Strategy in South Africa.
Tony Jackson, Honorary Research Fellow, Town and Regional Planning, School of Environment, University of Dundee Scotland
Tony Jackson has pursued an active career in economic development and environmental management. Tony has a degree in economics at Cambridge and agricultural economics at Reading.
In addition to his academic responsibilities, he has engaged extensively in practice: as a consultant engaged in economic development and environmental assessment; as an elected member of a Scottish local authority; and as chair of the National Council of the Institute of Economic Development, the UK's premier professional body for economic development practitioners.
Following retirement from full-time academic work in 2011, he remains actively engaged in research as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee. In addition to his consultancy activities, he is currently an external examiner at Imperial College London and at the University of the Highlands and Islands, serves as Treasurer of the Transatlantic Studies Association, and is International Development Editor of Local Economy.
David Engwicht, Director, Creative Communities International Qld
David Engwicht is considered one of the world's most innovative thinkers on place making, urban design, community development and transport. He is inventor of the Walking School Bus and a range of other social innovations. He is an award-winning author who has worked with cities worldwide.
David is an artist, inventor, master-storyteller, and "place doctor". He counts his lack of formal education as one of his greatest assets.
Philip D. Allsopp, RIBA, FRSA Co-founder
of Transpolis Global, Arizona USA
Philip is a writer, speaker and activist about improving the Resilience of our Habitats, Communities and Commerce, the issue at the core of Transpolis Global, the organisation Philip co-founded in 2009 with operations in the US, the UK and the Czech Republic and serving clients worldwide.
Philip's professional and academic backgrounds encompass the fields of urban design, public health, public policy and management consulting. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in London and also a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Philip serves as a Trustee of the Sonoran Institute and is also Treasurer of Local First Arizona Foundation.
Prof Evelyne De Leeuw - Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy Faculty of Health, Deakin University VIC
Evelyne de Leeuw, MPA, MPH, PhD, is Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy for the Faculty of Health at Deakin University in Australia. She coordinates the 'Doctors, Peoples, Cultures and Institutions' theme, which runs across the curriculum of the Medical School, and teaches a wholly on-line core master's level course on Healthy Cities.
From 1992 to 2001 she held the position of Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities at the Universities Maastricht. Professor de Leeuw continues to act as Senior Advisor for Evaluation to the European Network of Healthy Cities. She assists WHO regionally and globally in Healthy City evaluation reporting. She has worked with local, national and international government agencies on five continents in framing, defining, and implementing strategies for Healthy Cities.
Matt Coetzee, Business Development Manager, Government at Aurecon Aust
Tony De Domenico - Chief Executive Officer / Executive Director Urban Development Institute (Vic)
Tony joined UDIA in May 2004. Prior to joining UDIA, he spent 3 years in the Trade Commissioner service in Milan, Italy. He was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1992 and was Deputy Chief Minister in 1995 with a range of portfolio responsibilities including: Industrial Relations, Economic Development and Tourism, Public Works, Transport and Regulatory Reform. He is a former President of the Canberra Chamber of Commerce and has held numerous Board appointments. He is currently a Director of ARDOCH and represents UDIA (Vic) on numerous public and private sector committees and working parties.
A/Professor Deborah Ryan - Architecture and Urban Design, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Deborah Ryan is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and formerly a visiting member of the faculty at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. A recognized expert on civic engagement, Deb is the founder of both Ryan-Harris, LLC and Wikiplanning™, an online website for increasing civic engagement in the community planning process.
Deborah holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University, and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University. She is the editor of What's Right About Our Region: Authentic Urbanism in the Carolinas and Small Town Fit: Healthy People, Places and Policies. She has won five design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, an international prize for campus planning, and was the UNC Charlotte nominee for the O. Max Gardner Award, given to the one member of the 16-campus UNC faculty who has made the greatest contribution to mankind.
