Speakers in 2009

Speakers in alphabetical order

Ben Hamilton-Baillie
Ben Hamilton-Baillie is an architect, urban designer and movement specialist. As director of Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd. he provides consultancy advice on traffic and urban renewal for a wide range of local authorities, government agencies, developers, and community groups.

Irena Bauman, Bauman Lyons Architects Limited
Irena Bauman funded Bauman Lyons in 1992, and has been involved in developing wide range of projects. The practice is especially interested in mixed use, urban regeneration projects which tap into cultural creativity and aim to achieve new standards of sustainable development. She is also a CABE commissioner, CABE Champion for Yorkshire and Humber and chair for the Research Group.

Jayne Bradley, Sense City Jayne Bradley is the director of Sense City,  a practice based consultancy offering policy solutions to health and the environment through rethinking the food system, collaborating with regeneration and built environment professionals to integrate food into community, spatial and local plans. Sense City also works with community groups encouraging bottom up interventions with local food networks, supporting local food businesses, urban agriculture and practical approaches to sustainable urban neighborhoods.

Joost Beunderman
Joost is an Associate at the think tank Demos, where he has led several projects on urban regeneration, public space and third sector involvement in the creative economy. He has published numerous works on urban policy and he is currently working with Zer'o Zer'o on a range of research and strategy projects with partners such as the Watershed digital media centre (Bristol), Urban Initiatives, Bradford City Council, and NESTA.

Marcus Grant
Marcus is a chartered landscape architect, and deputy director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Policy. Situated at the University of the West of England, the centre supports synergy between sustainable development, health and design through research, consultancy and teaching. Recently he has been working with the Department of Health in the South West to develop healthier urban places though examining the positive role that urban design can play.

Sandy Halliday, GAIA Research
Sandy Halliday established her own research and consultancy practice – now Gaia Research –  in 1996 to develop sustainable solutions for the built environment. Sandy has recently been appointed Professor of Engineering Design for Sustainable Development by the Royal Academy of Engineering to assist in embedding sustainable design throughout engineering education.

Indy Johar, 00:/
Indy is a co-founder of 00:/, a unique organisation which seeks to fuse the boundaries of policy, strategy and design to deliver integrated sustainable futures. Over the course of the last 3 years 00:/ has grown its skill base ranging from policy research and brief strategy to architects and urban designers. He is also a Demos Associate and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Indy has also written several publications including “Sustainable Suburbs” (for RICS & CABE), “Future Planners” (for DEMOS) and ”Barcelona London” (for DEMOS).

Sandra Manley, University of the West of England
Sandra is Director of the Short Course Programme for the School of Built and Natural Environment at UWE and a planner by background. She is a regular contributor to UWE’s extensive programme of short courses and has spoken at international seminars and conferences as well as at UK based events.

Paul Murrain, Consultant
Paul is an urban design consultant, and (former) Senior Lecturer and Course Chairman at the Joint Center for Urban Design in Oxford, England. Paul was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Greenwich in 2007 and invited to be an Academician for the RIBA’s Academy of Urbanism in 2008. He has recently been appointed to CABE’s Expert Panel on Strategic Urban Design.

Noha Nasser, Birmingham City University
Noha Nasser is Director of the national Centre for Urban Design Outreach and Skills (CUDOS) at Birmingham City University developing community-centred urban design solutions and advancing community cohesion. She teaches on the MA Urban Design, is a member of both the West Midlands regional design review panels, Arts Council West Midlands, and the Urban Land Institute in Birmingham.  Noha is Project Director of the CABE Urban Design Summer School 2007-9.

Professor Alan Jackson Simpson MSc RIBA MRTPI
Professor Alan Jackson Simpson is an architect urbanist, teacher and writer. He has worked around the world, with government, industry and academia to respond to critical social, economic and environmental urban planning and urban design problems and opportunities. Alan is currently Head of Urbanism at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow.

David West
David is a partner of Studio Egret West, a planner and urban designer who specialises in urban visions and strategic framework plans. Having set up Studio Egret West with Christophe Egret in 2004, David has pursued a passion for delivering place specific strategies and solutions. He is a member of CABE’s 2012 Design Review Panel and sits on the RIBA Building Futures Steering Group.