Keynote Speakers

Lynda Addison

Lynda is the Chair of the Sustainable Transport Panel of CIHT and Working Group responsible for the Advice “Better Planning, Better Transport, Better Places” with CIHT, TPS and RTPI in 2019. Lynda is a Design Council Expert, Chairing the Brent Design Review Panel and Vice Chair of the Highways England Panel. Until recently, she was a Director of Garden City Developments CIC promoting 21st century “garden settlements”. She established an award winning consultancy, Addison & Associates, after leaving local government in Hounslow where she was Director of Planning and Transport.

In 2019, Lynda was the CIHT Transportation Professional of the Year, she received the RTPI/TPS Transport Planning Network award in 2010, and an OBE for services to planning in 2006.

Jonathan Ball

Jonathan operates as an independent design strategist working with a wide range of both public and private sector clients. As a Design Associate with Design Council he has trained and coached a wide range of clients in the practical application of design including Rolls-Royce Aerospace, London Business School, Naylor Industries, First Point Group, European Commission, Chilean Government, Home Office, Children’s Society. But has also worked internationally with LUMA Institute serving clients such as Honeywell, DBS (Singapore), Prudential, McDonald’s and the US Government Center for Disease Control.

Hiro Aso

Hiro is an UK-based chartered architect and brings over 25 years of integrated experience of urban development schemes.  He is an award-winning specialist in the design of regenerative transport hubs and was a leading figure in the delivery of some of UK’s most high-profile development catalyst schemes such as the modernisation of London King’s Cross Station and several stations on the Elizabeth Line including Bond Street and Paddington. He was the Global Head of Transport & Infrastructure at Gensler and is now the Leader of Transport Design at Hassell.

Camilla Ween

Camilla is an architect, working at the intersection of transportation and urban design, specialising in climate resilient and socially equitable urbanism. She is a Harvard Fellow and is on the Steering Committee of the United Nations Urban Economy Forum, helping cities deliver the UN Sustainability Development Goals. She is Head of Communications for ConnectedCities.

Camilla also worked for Transport for London for 11 years, advising the London mayors on the integration of land use policy and strategy and transport.

Maayan Ashkenazi

Maayan has worked at the intersection of anthropology, architecture and urban design for over a decade, and consults on the psycho-social aspects of spatial design. Having established the role of anthropologist urban designer at Foster and Partners, one of the UK’s leading studios, she went on to set up an independent consultancy and is engaged in academic research into urbanisation and health. She trained at the University of Cambridge, UCL and completed a PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research examines urban wellbeing as it relates to the integration of diverse user groups in European cities.

Andrew Cameron

Andrew is an engineer with a background in transport, architectural engineering and urban design. With over 25 years’ experience he has contributed to many masterplanning and regeneration projects for villages, towns and cities in the United Kingdom and around the world. He was an advisor to the UK Government for The House of Commons Select Committees on Housing and Sustainable Communities for the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. He is also a visiting lecturer at Kellogg College and Oxford University.