COMMITTEE 2012

Philip D. Allsopp,
RIBA, FRSA Co-founder of Transpolis Global, Arizona USA

Philip Allsopp is co-founder of Transpolis Global, a professional services firm combining management consulting, public policy development and urban design to improve the sustainability and energy independence of urban and rural habitats.   Phil and his partners in London and Prague are working on a variety of projects in the US, Sweden and UK.

From early 2006 through Phil served as CEO through July 2009, Phil served as President and Chief Executive officer of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, headquartered at Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.  During his tenure, he was responsible for restructuring the Foundation from governance (new bylaws and articles of incorporation), finance, licensing and operations and the development of new relationships with academia, arts and culture organizations, government and business.  One of several collaborations Phil developed during his tenure was with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.  The jointly curated, produced and designed exhibition entitled “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward”, broke all of the Guggenheim’s previous attendance records during the exhibition’s three-month run at the Guggenheim in New York.  The Exhibition travelled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in October where it ran through February 14th, 2010.

Dr Kate Kerkin,
Director K2 Planning

Geelong Region Alliance. Elaine is also Parks Victoria’s Manager of Strategic Parks and Marine Relations, based in Geelong and a member of the Regional Development Australia Committee for the Barwon South West region, which includes the G21 region.
Kate has worked in the areas of social and urban planning since the early 1980’s. She is an urban geographer with a Masters in Public Policy (Housing) and a PhD in Urban Planning. Kate has lectured in urban planning and community development at a number of Australian universities and contributed to a range of research projects related to social change and housing policy. Kate s PhD  focused on the role of different social groups in the planning and design of public spaces. Kate’s commitment to liveable places is reflected in the work of K2 Planning which has won awards for community infrastructure projects (www.k2planning.com.au). Kate is passionate about the role of local communities in making places liveable and is actively involved in local arts projects and community choirs.

Ms Elaine Carbines
Chief Executive Office, Geelong Region Alliance

Elaine Carbines is the CEO of G21 -
Elaine is also a former Member of Parliament, representing Geelong Province between 1999 and 2006. During this time Elaine was appointed to the positions of Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Parliamentary Secretary for Education. Prior to entering State Parliament, Elaine taught in secondary schools in Geelong and Melbourne.

 

Stuart Ord, Director,
Healthy Parks Healthy People

Stuart Ord, Director Healthy Parks Healthy People has more than 30 years experience in park management and operations having worked with several Victorian State government agencies during a wide ranging career. His executive management experience includes Regional Manager positions for Melbourne's extensive bays and terrestrial park networks. In these roles he has been abale to combine his love of environment and passion for community engagement.

Stuart's current focus is to lead a team within Parks Victoria to build understanding of and advocacy for the 'Healthy Parks Healthy People' philosophy to as wide an audience as possible, be it government, business and community. In doing so, he strives ensure the multitude of environmental, social and economic benefits can be realised and enjoyed by as many as possible.

A/Prof Susan Thompson,
City Futures Research Centre, University of NSW

Susan Thompson has over 30 years of experience as an urban planning practitioner, teacher and researcher.  She is Associate Professor of planning and Co-Director of the Healthy Built Environments Program, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW.  Further details of Susan’s teaching, research and publications can be found at: http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/staff/susan.thompson/

 

Stephen Bentley
Manager Events, Central Geelong & Waterfront

Steve Bentley is the Manager of Events, Central Geelong and Waterfront with the City of Greater Geelong. Trained as a school teacher, Steve has extensive experience in managing a broad range of recreation, sporting and community facilities. He also spent 3 years owning and operating his own Health and Fitness Club.
He is currently President of Mainstreet Australia and Vice President of Geelong Supercats.

Central Geelong and Waterfront has undergone a $70 million urban revitalisation and is now well on a path to re-emerging as a vibrant, dynamic destination as Victoria’s second City.  Steve heads a Central Geelong business unit responsible for asset presentation, events, marketing, business facilitation and relationships.

The other component of the department is the City’s Events Unit which supports over 400 events in the municipality including major events such as Avalon Airshow, Festival of Sails, Celtic Festival, Pako Festival and National cycling and triathlon events.

PROFESSOR EVELYNE DE LEEUW
Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy
Faculty of Health, Deakin University

Evelyne de Leeuw is Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy for the Faculty of Health at Deakin University. She also coordinates the ‘Doctors, Peoples, Cultures and Institutions’ theme, which runs across the curriculum of the Medical School. She also teaches a wholly on-line unit on Healthy Cities in collaboration with the Faculty of Science & Technology and the Faculty of Arts & Education as a core deliverable in the Deakin University Master of Planning (Professional).

Professor de Leeuw started her academic career with a brief excursion into landscape architecture, but soon discovered health sciences at the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands. After a Masters in Health Policy and Administration there (1985) she acquired an MPH at the University of California at Berkeley in comparative health systems research (1986) and a PhD on the feasibility of true health policy—public and private policies for health, not restricting itself to the health care sector or public health—in The Netherlands (Maastricht, 1989).

She has been involved in World Health Organization (WHO) health promotion endeavours since the 1986 Ottawa Conference and attended all subsequent international health promotion conferences; at the fourth one (Jakarta, 1997) she acted as conference rapporteur.

Since its initiation in 1986, she has been active in the international Healthy Cities movement. From 1992 to 2001 she held the position of Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities at the Universiteit 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, most recently in special issues of Health Promotion International and the Journal of Urban Health.

She has worked with local, national and international government agencies on five continents in framing, defining and implementing strategies for Healthy Cities.