Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
Terry Bills
Transportation Industry Manager
ESRI
Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
Gladys Berejiklian MP
Shadow Minister for Transport
NSW Liberal Party
Gladys was elected to Parliament March 22, 2003 as the Member for Willoughby.
In February 2005, she was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Mental Health.
Following the State Election in March 2007, Gladys was appointed Shadow Minister for Transport and Shadow Minister for Citizenship.
Gladys is a Master of Commerce graduate from UNSW and prior to entering Parliament worked as a national General Manager for the Commonwealth Bank. Gladys has also completed studies in Government and Public Administration (B.A., Uni. Syd).
She joined the Liberal Party in 1991 and served as the NSW Young Liberal President in 1996.
Gladys lives in Clanwilliam Street, Willoughby and has had a life-long association with the local area.
Julie Bindon
State President
Planning institute of Australia
Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
Peter Block
Partner, Project and Corporate Finance
Minter Ellison
Peter is a partner in the Finance Division at Minter Ellison. Peter has extensive experience acting for participants on major infrastructure projects including in the transport sector – roads, ports and airports. He also has experience in the development and financing of greenfield projects (including PPPs) and in secondary sales and project restructurings, particularly in the areas of infrastructure and energy projects.goes here.
Nick Brown
Chief Executive Officer
Serco Integrated Transport
Nick Brown has over 27 years experience in the Transport industry, commencing his career as a management trainee with British Rail in 1981. He has held a series of front line operational posts in England and Scotland, including periods in business planning, and change management. In 1996 at the time of railway privatisation he was appointed Managing Director of the National Express Group Franchise, Midland Mainline, he subsequently lead the Central Trains and Scotrail franchises as well as being the Chief Executive of the Group’s Bus Division. Nick joined Serco as Managing Director Rail in November 2005 and was appointed Chief Executive of Serco Integrated Transport in January 2007, involving global responsibility for transport and incorporating the rapidly growing transport developments of the Middle East division. He also sits as a Non-Exec Director on the Board of Serco Integrated Services and Serco Asia Pacific.
The Honourable David Campbell MP
Minister for Transport
New South Wales Government
David Campbell was born in Bulli and grew up in Corrimal in the heart of the seat he now represents in the NSW Parliament. After four years as councillor on Wollongong City Council, and eight years as the Lord Mayor of Wollongong, he was elected as the Member for Keira in March 1999.
David Chesterman AM
Founding Director
Jackson Teece
David Chesterman AM is a graduate in Architecture and Planning from the University of Sydney. He worked for some years in Britain and the USA where he was involved in urban renewal, new town development and airport design. With McConnell Smith and Johnson, Sydney, he was associate responsible for the design and documentation of the Commonwealth/State Law Courts at Queens Square and a member of the policy committee for the 1971 City of Sydney Strategic Plan. A founding director of Jackson Teece Chesterman Willis, he built up the firm's extensive planning and urban design practices. Projects and studies for which he has been responsible cover most facets of development and planning. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to Planning.
T.C Chew
Head of Mass Transit
Bombardier
TC Chew is Head of Mass Transit in the Systems Division of Bombardier Transportation. In this role, he is responsible for Mass Transit System projects worldwide. Mr. Chew joined Bombardier Transportation in October 2003 and subsequently led the former London Underground Projects Division. Prior to joining Bombardier, Mr. Chew spent eight years with the Singapore Land Transit Authority where he delivered several major rail transit projects and played a key role in the delivery of the first fully automated, driverless system in Singapore. Mr. Chew served as the Resident Engineer (Rolling Stock) on the MRT Project for the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Corporation from 1983 to 1989. Between 1989 and 1996, he served as Project E&M Manager for the London Underground's prestigious Jubilee Line Extension Project. TC Chew holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Manchester University in the UK. He is also a fellow of four professional institutions in the UK - Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, and Railway Signalling.
The Honourable Patrick Conlon MP
Minister for Transport
SA Government
Patrick Conlon is a member of the Executive Committee of Cabinet and is responsible for the portfolios of Energy, Infrastructure and Transport. Patrick Conlon was first elected as the Member for the inner south-western Adelaide seat of Elder in 1997. He is a devoted Port Adelaide supporter. His hobbies include fishing, fine wine and cooking.
Professor Graham Currie
Chair of Public Transport, Institute of Transport Studies
Monash University
Professor Currie holds Australia’s first professorship in public transport and is based at the Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University in Melbourne Australia where he researches and provides training in public transport planning. He has 30 years experience as a transit planner and has worked for some of the worlds leading operators including London Transport. He is a member of the US Transportation Research Board committee on Bus Transit Systems, the Light Rail Transit committee and the committee for Transit Development and Planning. He is a member of the UITP academic network and the Victorian Roads Based Public Transport Advisory Council in Australia. Prof Currie has led numerous research projects in public transport in all states and territories of Australia as well as assignments in Europe, Asia and North America. He has led training courses for public transport planners in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia and has recently published a book ‘No Way To Go – Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities’.
Beijing Municipal Institute for City Planning and Design
Peter Droege is an expert on the role of renewable energy, urban development and infrastructure. He is the author of Renewable City (renewablecity.org) and has directed and developed Solar City as a research development effort under the auspices of the International Energy Agency. Droege performed academic roles at leading universities in the United States and Japan, and is presently holding professorial positions at the Universities of Newcastle, Australia and Beijing, China. He is a Chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, for Asia Pacific, and directs Epolis, a Sydney-based consultancy active in sustainable urban change worldwide.
Patricia Forsythe
Executive Director
Sydney Chamber of Commerce
Patricia Forsythe was appointed Executive Director of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce in September 2006.
Prior to joining the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, Patricia served as a Member of the NSW Legislative Council from 1991 to 2006, during which time she held a variety of shadow portfolios.
Prior to her election to Parliament, Patricia was Executive Officer to the Minister for Local Government and Planning from 1988. Her earlier career roles were as Government Affairs Manager for a National Manufacturers Association and prior to that as a high school teacher in NSW State and Independent Schools.
Patricia holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education from Newcastle University, which is also the city in which she was born and raised.
Stefan Gemperli
Head of Sales, Public Transit Solutions
Continental Automotive Switzerland AG
1994 – 1996 Software Development for Control Center Applications (Unix based) with Softadweis AG
1996 – 1998 Project Manager for Automated Vehicle Location Solutions: AVLC for Geneva with Häni-Prolectron AG (formerly Softadweis AG)
1998 – 2001 Consultant and Project Manager for Electronic Banking Solutions with Hewlett-Packard (Schweiz) GmbH
2001 – 2006 Head of Mobile Development: New On Board Platform IBISplus with Siemens TTS/Siemens VDO (former Häni-Prolectron AG)
2006 – today Head of Sales: International Business Development with Continental Automotive Switzerland AG (formerly Siemens VDO)
Dr. Garry Glazebrook
Senior Lecturer, faculty of Design, Architecture and building
University of Technology Sydney
A Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, Dr Glazebrook is an expert on Sydney's urban transport, sustainable urban transport systems and urban development, with nearly 30 years' experience in consulting and in government policy positions. His qualifications include a PhD and masters degrees in Urban Planning and Operations Research, and he has published widely in the fields of transport and planning. He has been Australia's representative on Intelligent Transport Systems standards, and is a member of the International Union of Public Transport. He has a particular interest in how to make our cities more sustainable, and was a member of the steering committee of the Warren Centre's Sustainable Transport for Sustainable Cities project.
Rommel C Gavieta
Vice President
Metro Rail Transit Corporation
Rommel has twenty years experience in the development and management of light rail systems, mixed land use development, credit analysis of utility and container port companies, conversion of US military base, privatization of utilities, publication of energy indicators for the Asian Development Bank and research on building materials/ construction technologies.
He has worked with Metro Rail Transit Corporation, Banco Santander Philippines Inc., United Nations Center for Regional Development, Asian Development Bank, US Bases Conversion Development Authority.
Rommel has been associated with York Center for Asian Research, De La Salle University Graduate School of Business, Department of Geography Tokyo Metropolitan University, Civil Engineering Department Tsukuba University and the University of the Philippines.
He has his advocacy in infrastructure development and good governance and published papers in international journals and presented papers in international conferences on the same subject. He attended seminars/training/conferences organized by Canadian Association of South East Asian Studies, London School of Economics, UNDP/UNIDO, UNESCO-HUDCC, University of Cincinnati, National Fire Protection Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, UNCRD, Asian Development Bank, Construction Industry Training Board, Ateneo-Banking Association of the Philippines, The Study Group-UK Law Society.
Megan Gibb
Director TOD
Metro Council Portland
Megan Gibb, AICP, manages the Transit Oriented Development Program at Metro, the regional land use and transportation planning agency located in Portland, Oregon. Prior to her work at Metro, Megan worked for the Portland Development Commission – the City's urban renewal agency – on public/private partnership projects in the South Waterfront and Pearl Districts. Before moving to Oregon, Megan worked in Michigan where she served as the Planning and Development Director for the City of Ypsilanti for several years after working as a planning consultant. Megan also taught at the University of Michigan in the Urban and Regional Planning Program, her alma mater.
Colin Henson
Chair Transport Chapter
Planning institute of Australia (NSW Divivsion)
Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
Mike Jenkins MBE
General Manager of Rails and Tunnels, Australia Pacific
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Having managed many complex international infrastructure projects for the more than two decades, Mike has developed global infrastructure expertise with an emphasis on lessons learned. After many years of living in the UK, Mike was recently appointed PB’s General Manager of Rail & Tunnels in Australia–Pacific. He has extensive experience in program and project management in the railway, highway and building sectors in many countries and was awarded an MBE for ‘Services to the London Underground’ following his work on the Jubilee Line Extension, for which he was Senior Supervising Engineer and Station Delivery Manager for Westminster Station. This highly complex project received both an ICE London Association Merit Award and a British Safety Council 5-star rating. Recently, Mike has been Executive Director or Principal in Charge on major schemes such as: Edinburgh Tram; East London Line Project; Tunnel Cooling Project, London Underground; Independent Engineering Reviews, East London Transit; Bridge Outsourcing and Maintenance in Denmark; Dublin Metro North; the Portsmouth Area Infrastructure Upgrade and the West Coast Route Modernisation Programme.
Australian Centre for Governance and Management of Urban transport (GAMUT)
Nick Low is director of the Australasian Centre for Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT at http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut/) at the University of Melbourne. The Centre is one of seven international Centres of Excellence (on five continents) in future urban transport funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations. He is the author or editor of eight books, two of which have won national and international prizes. He co-edited the book with Brendan Gleeson Making Urban Transport Sustainable. He is known for his theoretical contributions to the politics of urban and environmental planning, and for his international research on urban sustainability. His book (with Brendan Gleeson) Justice, Society and Nature won the Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize of the International Studies Association in 1998 for the best book published on ecological politics.
Peter Lodge
Director of business deveopment and General Counsel
Veolia Transport
Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
The Honourable Paul Lucas MP
Deputy Premier, Minister for Infrastructure & Planning
Queensland Government
Paul Lucas is the Deputy Premier, Minister for Infrastructure and Planning in the Queensland State Government.
Mr Lucas served as Minister for Transport and Main Roads between 2004-2007 and Minister for Innovation and Information Economy, with ministerial responsibility for Energy between 2001-2004.
Mr Lucas, 45, was a solicitor prior to entering Parliament, has Bachelor degrees in Economics and in Law and a Master of Business Administration.
He was elected to the Queensland Parliament in October 1996 as the Member for Lytton, an electorate which covers several bayside suburbs in Brisbane's east.
His portfolio covers responsibility for planning and infrastructure, including delivery of the region-wide planning and deliver of the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program. The Department of Infrastructure and Planning is also responsible for overseeing the State Government’s $9 billion water grid.
Mr Lucas’ personal interests include music, reading and refereeing kids football matches. He has three sons and a daughter.
Peter Martinovich
Director Rail Infrastructure Projects
The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia
Owen Eckford is the Deputy CEO of Cabcharge Australia and the CEO of ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC) which operates Hillsbus, Westbus, Hunter Valley Buses and Toronto Buses. Owen was formerly the Managing Director of Bosnjak Holdings which was the former owner of Westbus and Hillsbus having joined the company in 2002. He transferred to his new role when the old company was purchased by CDC in 2005.
Chair of Public Transport, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
University of Sydney
Professor Corinne Mulley is the founding Chair in Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, a position funded by the NSW Government. Corinne graduated from Nottingham University and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Since her appointment to Newcastle University as a transport economist she has been active in transport research at the interface of transport policy and economics. More recently Corinne has concentrated on specific issues raised by public transport. She led a high profile European and UK consortia undertaking benchmarking in urban public transport and has provided both practical and strategic advice to local and national governments on all aspects of public transport planning and operation including benchmarking, rural transport issues, and public transport management. Corinne has just completed a study with the Commission for Integrated Transport - a body appointed to provide independent advice to Government on the implementation of integrated transport policy - on new ideas for rural transport. Corinne has a long standing interest in modern transport history and is an Editor of the Transport History Journal as well as nearing the completion of a long standing project, as Editor, of producing a Companion to Road Passenger Transport History covering the whole of the British Isles.
Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute
Founder and director of Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Professor Peter Newman believes universities are in a position to lead in developing innovative solutions to the major sustainability issues facing the community and businesses today. In 2006/7 he was in the US as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville, examining innovations in sustainability in US cities, regions and states. This is based on comparative work he did in Western Australia at the political level when he worked with the Premier of WA from 2001 to 2004 to develop the State Sustainability Strategy; this was the first state in the world with such a strategy, covering 42 areas of government.
Michael Roschlau is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA), which represents the public transit community across Canada. Michael has been with CUTA for over 20 years and, before being appointed to his current position, was responsible for a variety of association services such as education and training, major conferences and trade events.
Michael holds a Ph.D in transportation geography from the Australian National University, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. He has worked directly with staff and senior management at over 150 transport agencies around the world.
In addition to his role as CEO of CUTA, Michael chairs the Finance Working Group of the National Round Table on Sustainable Infrastructure, is co-chair of the Canadian Motor Carrier Passenger Council and serves on the Green Municipal Fund Council of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities as well as the Board of Directors of the Ontario Public Transit Association. Before joining CUTA in 1986, he spent several years with the Greater Vancouver Regional District, responsible for a variety of transit planning functions.
The Canadian Urban Transit Association is the association representing providers of urban transit services, suppliers to the industry, government, individuals and related organizations in Canada.
Its mission is to establish public transit as the primary solution to urban mobility in the achievement of sustainable transportation, and to assist its members in the fulfillment of their mandates.
Paul was appointed to the role of Executive General Manager, QR Passenger in May 2008. Paul brings to QR a wealth of experience and has held senior roles with Ansett, Tourism Queensland, Flight Centre, AOT Holidays, AustraliaWide Airlines and the Roamfree Group. In 1996, Paul was awarded the Presidents Club Award for the top performing sales individual in the Asia/Pacific Region of American Express. Paul’s efforts were further recognized when he was awarded the 2003 Australian Institute of Management’s “Young Manager of the Year” award. As QR looks for significant growth, Paul is committed to leading QR Passenger to become a customer focussed entity.
Tony Smith
Manageing Director
Thales
Terry Bills is the Transportation Industry Manager at ESRI, responsible for all transportation segments worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in transportation planning and policy, information technology and GIS.
Before joining ESRI, Mr. Bills was a Principal Planner for the Southern California Association of Governments, and was the President of GIS/Trans, a transportation GIS consulting firm with offices throughout the US.
Mr. Bills has two Masters’ degrees from UCLA, and was a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA.
Howard studied economics at LSE before joining British Rail and managing train operations and passenger stations in South and West London. In the early 1990’s he worked on the planning and operation of international freight services and the formation of freight marketing joint ventures with Belgian and Swiss public and private sector partners. He became Managing Director of one of these joint ventures, ACI Ltd, operating freight services between the UK, France, Spain and Italy.
Whilst working for Docklands Light Railway Howard was heavily involved in the development of plans for upgrading capacity on the Bank/Tower Gateway to Lewisham route. Howard led the development of: the DLR City Airport and Woolwich Arsenal Extension projects, as well as planning the extension of the DLR to Stratford International.
Howard moved to London Rail as Chief Operating Officer at the end of 2004 where he has responsibility for DLR and for the new London Overground project, which involves the transfer to TfL of the former Silverlink Metro services; and the construction of the extended East London Line as part of a £1.4 billion investment to be completed by 2010. Howard also has responsibility for London Trams and for London Rail’s input to Crossrail.
