Tess is an experienced and energetic planner, passionate about delivering placed based planning outcomes that make a real impact – shaping Queenslander’s lives now and for the future. Tess embraces the big challenges with a focus on collaboration, taking inspiration from working alongside people with the confidence to push boundaries, contribute ideas and come up with solutions together. Particular focus has been on greener and cooler streets, enabling people to live more locally, more affordable homes and engaging with our First Nation peoples better in the planning framework. Returning home to Queensland after five years in Melbourne working for the Victorian Planning Authority, Tess is committed to plans that promote inclusivity while accommodating growth and embodying our distinctly Queensland lifestyle. Since being back in Queensland, Tess has overseen the delivery of ShapingSEQ 2023, a bold plan that aims to provide access to the types of homes that South East Queenslanders want, and where and when they want them. Her attention now turns to leading the delivery of the government’s ambitious planning agenda with key partners and stakeholders – one that includes a statewide regional planning program, and responsibilities under the newly released ‘Homes for Queenslanders’ to ‘build more homes, faster’.

Tom joined Slattery as a Quantity Surveyor in 2007, and now acts as Carbon Planning Director, overseeing projects nation-wide. He played a pivotal role in the development of Slattery’s Carbon Planning service, and now leads a team of specialists who assist clients with their decarbonisation goals through a cost/benefit framework. Tom identified that the risk of not managing embodied carbon in construction. The development of the Carbon Planning tool was a natural extension to Slattery’s service offering, as managing embodied carbon through the process of design is interlinked with cost advice. Launched in 2021, Slattery’s Carbon Planning service was the first of its kind offered in Australia, which received endorsement by the GBCA and the Property Council of Australia.

Stuart began as CEO at the Victorian Planning Authority in 2017 and has more than 30 years’ experience in planning, urban management and project delivery in the public and private sectors. He has worked in senior roles across five Australian states and territories. He has had lead roles in preparing strategic plans for four capital city regions, and has overseen reform of the planning systems in two states. Immediately prior to taking the helm at the VPA, Stuart oversaw the delivery of a new planning system for Queensland a new regional plan for South East Queensland. He prides himself on being a reformer and strong advocate for practical planning solutions. Stuart is a former Chief Executive of the Adelaide City Council, a former National Vice-President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, a Registered Planner and Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Since November 2021, Stuart has been a member of the South Australian State Planning Commission. Stuart is committed to delivering plans that get built – unlocking jobs, housing and amenity for current and future communities. In his VPA role, he has driven the repositioning of the Authority as a broad-based state-wide growth planning agency and is now working to deliver the organisation’s largest-ever project portfolio.

Tom brings over 20 years of expertise in the property industry from both a construction and development perspective. He joins ISPT after eight years at Mirvac where he was most recently the NSW Commercial Development Director. Previous to this Tom held a variety of construction and delivery roles at Lend Lease, where he was for fourteen years. Tom has extensive experience across multiple sectors and regions, including the delivery of complex city-defining large scale projects Barangaroo in Sydney, 55 Pitt Street Sydney, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and Top Ryde Shopping Centre in New South Wales.

Councillor HY William Chan is a registered architect, advocate for design excellence, and a sustainability and housing rights leader. With experience in the design and innovation of cities, William has contributed to Sydney’s most significant public space, social housing, rapid transit, infrastructure and community developments over the past decade. His work has won numerous industry awards including from the Australian Institute of Architects and Good Design Australia. Elected to Council in 2021, William is the Chair of the Local Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Calming Committee, Deputy Chair of the Transport, Heritage, Environment and Planning Committee, and Executive of Climate Emergency Australia, which represents over 100 local governments accelerating a zero-carbon economy across the nation. William continues to empower communities to shape the city of the future through environmental and social justice, as part of his leadership as a City of Sydney Councillor. He has championed human rights as UNICEF’s Young Ambassador, led the Australian Youth Climate Coalition on its national council, and facilitated the community’s 2050 vision as a member of the expert panel to the City of Sydney’s Citizens Jury. From the UN General Assembly to the TEDx stage, William regularly shares his passion for citymaking and policymaking with the public. He was appointed the World Economic Forum’s Global Public Leadership Fellow with Apolitical and the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government in 2021, and as a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University’s Climate School since 2018. William volunteers in his local community with Rotary International and as a surf lifesaver with Surf Life Saving Sydney. In 2020, he was recognised on the Australian of the Year Awards Honour Roll for services to the community.

International speaker Professor June Williamson from New York explores a range of northern American contexts and market conditions of relevance to Australia. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, densification, decarbonisation, reinhabitation, regreening of changing urban places, tackling systems such as mobility, aquifer protection, renewable energy and power generation. June uses examples of successful global urban design strategies that can help solve Australia’s challenges such as housing attainability, public health, resilience in the face of climate change, the ability to leverage social capital for equity, support an aging society, compete for jobs, and disrupt car dependence. June draws from 32 implementable American case studies to demonstrate the potential to retrofit our cities. The focuses on urban design strategies for urgent challenges and how public policy and governance, public health, urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders can redesign and redevelop precincts into more sustainable places. Her books are a call to action to redesign the established urban landscape to support new growth patterns. June demonstrates to our leaders how development in existing precincts within our cities can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions.

Lisa McLean is a circular economy and zero-carbon business transformation leader and Managing Director, CEO of Circular Australia, a national independent NFP leading the transition to a zero-carbon circular economy in Australia. She has been successfully advising industry and governments in developing new policy frameworks and regulations that bring about market change to enable the circular zero-carbon economy over the past 20 years. This work has covered the supply chains, infrastructure, energy, water, waste and mobility sectors in the UK and Australia. Lisa established and led the Open Cities Alliance, a peak industry association with unique membership from government to private sector and research organisations. Open Cities advocates for the circular economy, prosumer rights and new local utility and mobility precinct approaches. In Australia, Lisa initiated and established the Australian Solar Thermal Association (AUSTELA), advised electric mobility providers, and worked with Flow Systems from a start-up sustainable water utility to its major role in shaping a new sustainable water and now multi-utility market. Starting her career as a political journalist working in the national press gallery, Lisa moved to advising ministers and premiers on education and climate policy, before heading to the UK to help establish the Clinton Climate Initiative.

Karolina is a Circular Design Specialist with 3XN/GXN, supporting clients with strategic visioning and delivery of low carbon design and circularity. Based in Copenhagen, she works on projects globally with a current main focus on the UK. She has extensive knowledge in whole life carbon reduction strategies and calculation, building and material reuse/upcycling, design for disassembly, and design for adaptability. She has recently led carbon optioneering studies and whole life carbon assessments for large UK projects, and have been part of completing a four-year long EU-research project; CIRCuIT on scaling circularity as part of a low carbon future in Copenhagen, London, Hamburg and Helsinki.

As the Head of Strategy Development, as well as the Head of Property and Asset Management, Richard Fennell focuses on developing future client solutions across all business lines. Working with the Australian CEO, he develops market-leading strategies across all business lines with a focus on Proptech and client-centric strategies to deliver great services that add value to their customers. With more than 25 years of experience in property and asset management, he specialises in helping Australian clients to maximise their returns from property investment. Having worked across Asia Pacific with Global, PAN Asia and local investors across all sectors, he continues to work with the COO and Asia Pacific Head of PAM to deliver client-centric solutions for all JLL clients across Asia Pacific. In Australia, he handles a team of over 1100 property and asset management professionals specialising in mixed-use, office, retail, industrial and residential property. They focus on delivering new technology and customer experience platforms for our clients, while leveraging JLLs global investment in Proptech to bring new and innovative platforms to clients and their customers.

Chair at Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction Zurich & Venture Partner at Nirman Ventures, Global Sustainability Strategist at Atkinson Consultancy Maria is an environmental scientist and is internationally recognised for her work in sustainability. In 2012, she was awarded a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to the construction and real estate sector, particularly as a leader and contributor to environmentally sustainable building development. Maria has over 15 years of experience on not-for-profit, international institution and government boards and committees. She has been the Chair of the UN’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative, an advisor to the Finance Initiative Property Group, a member of the Singapore Building and Construction Authority’s International Panel of Experts and Co-Chair of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Construction. She is currently the Chairperson of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in Switzerland, and she participates in many international forums on future markets and political policy issues.

Avtar is the Managing Director of RSHP Australia who are currently working as Lead Design Consultant with a multidisciplinary team to design five new Metro stations on the Metro Tunnel Project in the city of Melbourne. Previously he led the RSHP team in Sydney in the design and construction of the Barangaroo South Project - the largest single development in Australia at the time. Avtar was in charge of One Hyde Park, a luxury residential development in London’s Knightsbridge. He was also responsible for the Law Courts in Antwerp, the associated Nieu Zuid Masterplan and the Bolivarplaats projects and the new headquarters of Lloyd’s Register in the City of London. Avtar has also been the director of the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Charitable Foundation, (formerly The Thames Wharf Charity), for some 30 years and sat on the Council of Management of the Foundation. The practice is entirely owned by the charity, which in turn receives an annual dividend from the practice and distributes this for charitable purposes at the direction of the employees, with over £20 million distributed to date.

Practicing globally, Adrian McGregor is a Biourbanist, Adjunct Professor, and author of the book Biourbanism :: Cities as Nature. He is the Founder and Chief Design Officer at McGregor Coxall, an interdisciplinary firm of Biourbanists that delivers prosperity by design. Propelled by research from its Biourbanism Lab, the firm provides data led urban design, landscape architecture and environmental services from 5 studios across Australia and the UK. Nominated as one of Sydney’s 100 most creative people, he master plans new cities and helps existing cities and places enhance prosperity by planning for climate resilience. He received the Prime Minister of Australia’s award for Urban Design and has helped McGregor Coxall receive more than 200 international design awards.

Alex Crossing is the Regional Head for Asia Pacific within Indirect Private Real Estate at CBRE Investment Management (CBRE IM) and has worked across the Singapore and Sydney offices since 2008. She is responsible for managing the Asia Pacific component of global investment mandates, sourcing and undertaking due diligence on investment opportunities. Ms. Crossing is on the Indirect Management Team and represents Indirect on CBRE IM’s Sustainability Committee. Alex joined CBRE IM in 2008 after spending four years with CBRE in Hong Kong as a Director within the CBRE Consulting business. Ms. Crossing performed a regional role working with CBRE Consulting teams across Asia providing strategic investment advice including market entry strategies, feasibility/highest and best use assessments as well as research and analysis relating to real estate acquisition and disposition. Ms. Crossing was also a Property Manager for AMP Capital and she started her career in the real estate sector as an Analyst for Tourism Asset Holdings Limited (TAHL) in 1997. Alex has a degree in Business from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has completed RIAA’s Responsible Investment Essentials.

Ruban Kaneshamoorthy is Managing Director and Head of Investments for Brookfield’s Real Estate Group in Australia. In this role, Mr. Kaneshamoorthy leads the team responsible for sourcing, underwriting and execution of direct real estate and corporate real estate transactions for the group. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2018, Mr. Kaneshamoorthy held a number of senior roles in real estate private equity and investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Macquarie Bank and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds. Mr. Kaneshamoorthy has experience on transactions across Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore and Japan. Mr. Kaneshamoorthy holds a Bachelor of Law degree and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

With over 17 years of experience as a Landscape Architect and Project Manager, Nadia has played an integral role in the successful completion of a diverse range of projects in Australia and overseas. With a strong commitment to creating inclusive and innovative solutions that benefit all members of the community, Nadia’s expertise includes strategic planning, landscape infrastructure, urban revitalisations, health and community infrastructure, public domain placemaking, and design. Nadia's commitment to quality assurance and team operations has enabled her to lead and manage teams to deliver multiple award-winning strategic planning, placemaking and play-focused projects. Her passion for grass-roots community assistance is demonstrated through involvement in numerous pro-bono projects with not-for-profit organisations developing landscape master plans and concept designs for play, health, and education projects in disadvantaged communities in Australia and internationally. Nadia remains actively engaged with the education sector through guest lecture roles at UNSW focused on Landscape Infrastructure and Inclusive Design. Her dedication to inclusive design underlines her belief that creating innovative and resilient solutions that equitably benefit all members of the community requires collaborative engagement throughout the process of design.

Managing director of Atelier Ten’s Australian office and global leader of its Benchmarking practice, Paul is recognized for environmental planning and design consulting work on large-scale campus, cultural, and urban projects. Paul’s projects notably balance daylight, thermal comfort, and energy efficiency to exceed client benchmarks and expectations. Paul’s work in Australia includes a major research laboratory for the South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), the Sydney Modern expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Barangaroo South precinct in Sydney, the adaptive reuse of a former auto factory into the Tonsley Park mixed-use development, and the original environmental concepts for Federation Square in Melbourne. Paul’s leadership in environmental design has been recognized by the US Green Building Council, who named him a LEED Fellow in 2013. Paul has taught environmental design at the UTS School of Architecture, and environmental design and building services at the Yale School of Architecture. He continues to serve as a visiting lecturer and environmental design consultant for the Rural Studio at Auburn University. In 2019 Paul was appointed to the NSW Government Architect’s State Design Review Panel.

Michael leads Aria’s high rise developments division, focused on delivering projects across inner city areas. Having been with Aria since its inception in 2003, Michael previously managed Aria’s international development activities and headed Aria’s Colorado branch. As a committee member of the Urban Development Institute of Australia and Housing Institute of Australia, he has a vested interest in creating change in the industry for a more sustainable future. His current focus is on working with world-leading architects to create buildings that innovate, enrich and exceed the expectations of not only clients and residents, but also the wider community.

Georgina Harvey is Riverlee’s Assistant Development Manager working on Riverlee's $2 billion mixed-use precinct, New Epping. Georgina has over 12 years’ experience in the property industry across Australia, Asia and the United States. After spending 7 years working at Robert A M Stern Architects in New York, Georgina returned to Melbourne and joined the Riverlee team to support the diversified property group’s design-led development arm across the commercial, residential and retail sectors. Georgina is the ULI Melbourne District Co-Chair, and a University of Melbourne Women of Architecture, Building & Planning committee member.

Claire O'Rourke is the Founding Director of Cohere Projects and has over 20 years of property development experience. In 2018, she co-founded a successful Brisbane property consultancy, Bluebird Property Partners. Prior to this, Claire spent 15 years working as a Development Manager for some of the world’s largest property developers, including Lendlease, Mirvac and Barratt London. Claire has delivered residential and mixed-use projects in Brisbane, Perth and London, which ranged in scale from $20m to $700m and received numerous awards. Claire is also involved in several property industry bodies, and chairs both the UDIA Planning Policy Committee, as well as the Urban Land Institute's QLD District Committee. Claire holds tertiary qualifications in property and construction and in 2021 was recognised as one of Queensland’s Top 20 Business Entrepreneurs.

Alex has over 25 years’ experience in the property and development industry across the public and private sectors. This experience has given Alex substantial experience and exposure to leading multi-disciplinary teams across the spectrum of project delivery from the acquisition phase, project conception, authority approvals, sales launches and construction and settlement. Alex has been involved in delivering some of Mirvac QLD’s most iconic projects including Ascot Green at the Brisbane Racing Club, the Waterfront Newstead masterplan, Mariner’s Peninsula, Ephraim Island, and Tennyson Reach.

Rebecca is the Director, ESG & Sustainability for Taronga Ventures. She supports their funds and portfolio companies to develop their ESG proposition and works with our investors and partners to meet their increasing ESG disclosure and action requirements. In addition, Rebecca leads their ESG advisory business to support institutional real asset owners and operators to develop and implement ESG programs. Rebecca’s career has spanned from in-house ESG focused business strategy development and program deployment to consultancy and advisory. She brings a demonstrated track record of creating meaningful real-world solutions to achieve the vision of the group with a focus on real assets. She has a background in ESG program design and implementation, with a specialist focus on real assets from reporting and disclosure to strategy and roll-out. Rebecca previously worked with leading real estate managing agent Cushman & Wakefield as their Head of ESG & Sustainability for Asia Pacific, guiding and supporting owners, investors and occupiers to realise their ESG visions through program deployment. She has a passion for cutting-edge solutions to promote and advance responsible business practices in the industry. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science, Environment (hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters Degree in Sustainability and Business Management from Monash University. Rebecca’s strength is her ability to translate sustainability, driving value for stakeholders throughout the business. She has a passion for supporting organisations to address and resolve evolving ESG challenges and opportunities.

Tom joined Hines in 2018 with 10 years international experience in real estate development with a passion for sustainable urban development practices. Acting as the Director of Development for Hines in the Nordics, Tom builds upon recent experience supporting Hines in Ireland and rapid growth in a residential led mixed-use development pipeline between 2018 and 2020. Hines have a long term strategy to grow in the Nordic region and his recent move to the Nordics in 2020 signals a step-change within Hines; supporting the shift of a stable real estate business, with €812m under management and one landmark Copenhagen development, into a leading urban development partner in the Nordic region. Tom builds on both delivery and acquisitions roles abroad including complex, inner city and air-rights development and both commercial and residential projects of scale.

Mr. Warneford is a managing director responsible for the day-to-day operation of Hines management and investment activities throughout Australia, including capital transactions, asset management, refurbishment and development projects. Warneford joined Hines in July 2008 in the group’s Abu Dhabi office, before returning to his native Sydney to open the Hines Australia office in February 2012. Warneford has been involved in the commercial real estate industry for over 15 years, during which time he has participated in the development, acquisition and management of property with a value of over $1.6 billion. Warneford received a Bachelor of Building (Construction Management), Hon. 2nd Class from the University of New South Wales and Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment, FINSIA.

Alice is a journalist and editor, with a background in branding and communications strategy. For more than 15 years she has been a passionate advocate of the architecture and design industry within Australia and the wider Indo-Pacific region. Through her work on international design festivals, regional awards programs, print and digital media, she has helped establish major platforms that recognise and celebrate the region’s most exciting design. Alice regularly participates within the industry as a Moderator, MC, Judge, Commentator, Mentor and Advisor.

Jonathan is a global citizen, having held senior executive and board roles across Asia and Europe in real estate, venture capital, technology, and infrastructure-related investments. In 2015, Jonathan jointly founded Taronga Ventures, one of the world’s leading technology and innovation investors focused on the real asset sector and the wider built environment. His vision is to bridge the gap between institutions and corporates and the emerging technology companies that are now targeting the real estate and infrastructure sectors. Through Taronga Ventures, Jonathan’s focus is on real asset technology (RealTech) investments that drive real and measurable impact across ESG, including carbon reduction, renewable energy, sustainability, and health & safety. Prior to Taronga Ventures, Jonathan has also held executive roles at Mirvac, as a Director at AREIM in Sweden and as the Portfolio Manager Asia for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) during a period when ADIA completed more than 40 transactions across Asia. In other roles, Jonathan has lived and worked in China, the Philippines and Singapore with Savills, and was also the Managing Director South East Asia based in Singapore for ING Real Estate. Jonathan attended the INSEAD AMP course in Singapore & Abu Dhabi in 2015-2016. He holds an MBA from the University of South Australia, a Bachelor of Planning & Design and a Bachelor of Town & Regional Planning from the University of Melbourne. He also completed postgraduate studies at Tsinghua University and is fluent in Mandarin and Swedish.

Luke Edwards is Managing Director and Head of Australia in the Renewable Power & Transition Group. In this role, Mr. Edwards is responsible for the overall growth and management of renewable power and transition investments, operations and development activities in Australia. He previously served as a Vice President in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group, where he focused on investment origination, analysis and execution. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2021, Mr. Edwards held various roles across engineering, commercial and investments sectors including a director position at Citi. He has also held roles at Goldman Sachs, in its power, utilities and infrastructure investment banking teams and has experience as a field engineer for Schlumberger in Brazil and Alaska.  Mr. Edwards holds Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and Bachelor of Commerce degrees, both from the University of Sydney.

ROSS ELLIOTT BA (Hons) MAICD - Ross is a leading industry practitioner with over 35 years’ experience in property and urban development across a number of industry sectors. He has held senior roles with the Property Council of Australia as Executive Director, National Chief Operating Officer, and National Executive Director of the Residential Development Council. He helped lead their national cities strategy and forged the first MOU with the ULI in Washington in 2000. In 2001 he was made inaugural CEO of city-wide marketing and investment authority Brisbane Marketing, and in recent years he has been an independent advisor with a range of property companies from builders to architects to economists and engineers. He has been a frequent writer and guest speaker on urban development themes both in Australia and the US. In 2018 he was published in a global study of suburban development by MIT Boston and Chapman University (Calif), entitled Infinite Suburbia, and in late 2019 was invited by the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Cambridge, Mass.) to judge a series of student works on polycentric cities. In early 2020 he was invited by Texas A&M University to deliver a series of lectures on Metropolitan Growth and Development. In 2020 he completed an MIT Certificate in Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment. He is a founding director of policy group Suburban Futures, and in 2018, he was asked by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane to Chair a formal suburban renewal program called The Better Suburbs Initiative.

Phil Kim is a Chair, Board Member, Shareholder and Managing Director Asia Pacific at the Jerde Partnership, Inc. in Los Angeles and Asia, focusing on Jerde’s constantly evolving places that has impacted and rejuvenated Asia cities, with the firm recognized with 160 international design awards. He advises companies and cities on innovation in integrated development, retail, urban revitalization, vertical cities and the value creation of place. Langham Place Hong Kong, Roppongi Hills Tokyo and Quay Quarters Sydney are past and present notable projects representative of a people-based design that draws over one billion visitors to Jerde projects around the world annually in twenty countries. He is a ULI Trustee, Chair of the Hong Kong National Council, Co-Chair of the UrbanPlan education initiative for Hong Kong and Asia, and an Asia Pacific Executive Council member. He is also a Founding Member of the Institute for Sustainable Urbanisation focusing on urban regeneration of emerging cities.

Andrew is a property strategist, communications professional and marketer of the built environment, with over a decade’s worth of experience working in-house for some of Australia’s largest developers, including Leighton Properties and Sekisui House Australia. In 2016, Andrew founded Polymer Studios, which in a short time has grown to become one of Australia’s leading communications and public relations firms dedicated to property development and the built environment. Andrew is also the co-founder of Reactivate Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in property strategy, place activation and community engagement. Andrew has a unique insight into the property industry, having worked across many of Australia’s most transformative residential projects, such as Green Square Town Centre, Central Park, The Langston, Windermere, The Hermitage and Park Sydney. Andrew’s commercial experience includes 567 Collins Street, 177 Pacific Highway, Wesley Place and Kings Square, while he also regularly consults on major property projects across south-east Asia, with clients in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Indonesia. Andrew is a frequent contributor to property industry panels, thought leadership initiatives and presentations.

Simon is the State Manager – Victoria at Bridge42, an Australian national advisory, development and project management consulting firm. Simon has more than 20 years’ experience in the conception, design and delivery of major infill and mixed-use developments across Hong Kong, China and Australia. He has worked in a variety of industry roles in his career to date, including in engineering, marketing, sales, property advisory, development management and project delivery management. Simon brings expertise in creating commercially viable, public-private partnerships that create sustainable, high-density urban outcomes for growing cities. He has been involved in the masterplanning, development and delivery of major mixed-use precincts and urban renewal projects for various urban renewal authorities in Hong Kong and Australia. Key projects have included: • Hong Kong: Kowloon Station Redevelopment, Pacific Place Precinct and Extension, and various transit-oriented developments along rail corridors. • Beijing: Wangfujing retail and Chaoyang Central Park residential districts. • Sydney: St Marys and Campbelltown town centres, and Sydney Water Parramatta Head Office. • Melbourne: Officer Town Centre, and neighbourhood retail developments in growth corridors. • Brisbane: Eagle Street Pier, Fortitude Valley Regeneration, and Coronation Park Office Park Precinct. Simon is Chartered Structural Engineer by profession. He is an occasional lecturer and tutor at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture. He also teaches various industry professional development courses for the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) and the Property Council of Australia. In addition to his role as a ULI Asia Pacific Housing Council Member, Simon is currently a Property Council of Australia Academy Committee Member and a UDIA Urban Renewal and Built Form Committee Member.

Anupam Yog is an established global expert and trusted adviser to cities, companies, universities, communities, and entrepreneurs. With extensive international experience he is a skillful creative strategist, researcher, curator, facilitator, and project manager. Anupam has held leadership roles and senior management appointments in Real Estate, Consulting, Technology, Higher Education and Social Impact organisations. He continues to be active in all these sectors, bringing a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and hands-on management approach to complex challenges. As an entrepreneur, Anupam has established, led and operated consultancies Mirabilis Advisory and Inclusive Citymaking Solutions, where he has worked on competitive positioning ideas, research and policy innovation labs, economic development and brand strategies for global clients including the Mayor of London, San Francisco-based Bay Area Council, UK’s Department of International Trade, India’s Ministry of Urban Development, the World Bank, World Wildlife Foundation for Nature, National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, GTZ, Future Agenda, LSE’s Urban Age, Ashoka, Virtuous Retail and The Xander Group Inc, amongst others. Anupam was invited by Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities to join their World Cities Summit-Young Leaders community in 2018. He has developed and teaches an executive education course titled “Inclusive City Making” for city leaders and managers. He is co-investigator of an ongoing academic study, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineers, on “Mindfulness in Cities”, and in partnership with UCL’s Urban Innovation & Policy Lab. He seeks to develop a “Conscious Cities Index”, which measures the correlation between community wellbeing, individual mental health and a city’s urban design. Anupam is a part of the core curatorial team of WRLDCTY, a Best Cities Festival launched in 2020. In September 2020, he initiated ‘The Big Sit’, a monthly social meditation and community mindfulness in Singapore’s CBD. He writes a column on mental health for ‘Run’ Magazine. As an avid mindfulness practitioner, Anupam brings an intentional and thoughtful approach to advising cities, organisations, and their leaders, as they navigate uncertain times.

Responsible for working with Brookfield’s local and global teams in overseeing portfolio management for Brookfield’s Australian core and core-plus real estate investment strategies, including fund and asset performance, return profile, and pursuit of acquisition and disposition opportunities. Chair of ULI Australia and Member of the ULI Asia Pacific Executive Commitee

Ian is the Head of ESG at EG Funds, bringing over a decade of experience in climate change management and responsible investment within the real estate sector. He sits on the UNPRI’s Global Real Estate Advisory Committee, bringing additional global experience through ongoing involvement in the UNFCCC, the banner UN Body under which the historic Paris Climate Agreement sits.

A co-founder and partner at HATCH | Roberts Day, Mike has moderated visioning + planning design forums and led the firm’s design teams responsible for an array of urban transformation projects and new towns throughout Australia, New Zealand, UAE and Asia since the inception of the company in 1993. Mike was the principal master planner and urban designer of the Ellenbrook New Town in Western Australia and in 2004, the recipient of the Russell Taylor Award for Design Excellence for Ellenbrook. Ellenbrook received the International Real Estate Federation [FIABCI] 2015 World Prix d'Excellence Award as the world's best master-planned community. Place Leaders Asia Pacific bestowed Mike with the 2018 Centrepiece Award | Leadership Excellence in Promoting Walkable Urbanism. Most recently Mike led the masterplanning for the jointly funded Consolidated Land and Rail Australia | Federal Government Strategic Business Case for the CLARA High Speed Rail and eight sustainable, liveable, connected cities between Sydney and Melbourne. Mike is a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Claire is a leader in real estate transactions and strategy, with over 9 years experience across commercial, industrial, residential, seniors living, student accommodation and alternative asset classes. Claire is responsible for managing projects from strategy through to implementation, including asset and portfolio reviews, transaction management, lease structuring and tenant representation. Throughout her career she has worked on national on and off market transactions for ASX listed and global corporates, government, sovereign wealth funds, private high net worths and not-for-profit organisations. Claire is the Chair of the ULI Australia Young Leaders Group (YLG) and actively promotes and mentors young professionals to achieve their career aspirations through networking, events and engagement with the ULI global community. Claire is responsible for the YLG strategy and alignment with the wider ULI network and real estate industry. Claire holds a Bachelor of Property Economics from the University of Technology Sydney.

Belinda is the Founding Director of 9Springs, an independent group specialising in Australian real estate investment, property development and strategic advisory on behalf of high net worth family offices, private corporations, governments, not-for-profit organisations and listed entities. Belinda is a Non-Executive Director of Link Wentworth Housing, one of Australia’s largest Community Housing Providers servicing 10,000 residents living in 6,400 affordable, social and specialist disability homes. Belinda is the recipient of the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s (UDIA) National and NSW Women in Leadership Award for Excellence and has been acknowledged as one of the Top 100 Women in Construction across Australia. Belinda is the Chair of the ULI Sydney District Council and is an appointed member of the ULI Australia National Council. Belinda is a casual academic with the University of Technology Sydney’s Built Environment School and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Yu-Ning is the current CEO of Singapore’s National Parks Board. NParks mission is to create the best living environment through excellence in nature conservation, greenery and recreation, and veterinary care, in partnership with the community. She was the Chief Planner, a role in which she oversaw the urban planning of Singapore. Yu-Ning has held various appointments in the public sector including with the URA, the Strategy Group of Singapore’s Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Ministry of National Development. She was a governing trustee with the Urban Land Institute (ULI). She serves on the boards of the Singapore Science Centre, the Land Transport Authority, Gardens by the Bay and the IJ Board of Management. Yu-Ning studied architecture at the National University of Singapore and public policy & urban planning at Harvard University.