Michelle Prior is the Director of Active Transport at the Department of Transport leading teams to help make it easier for people to walk or ride bikes across WA. She is passionate about physical activity, with extensive experience in public health, transport planning and behaviour change. Michelle has university qualifications in social science, marketing, business, and management, has lived and work overseas. She is currently on the board of Surfing WA and a former board member of Australian Women Sport and Recreation.

Mark is an experienced and influential career Consultant who has grown from a Traffic Engineer / Transport Planner into a Regional Business Leader. Whilst he has gotten to this position on a foundation of technical knowledge and expertise, over the years he has developed a skill and insight for business growth and people, which has facilitated a shift in his focus away from purely technical delivery to a business and technical leadership role.
Early in his career, Mark made a conscious effort not to be “pigeon-holed” which has enabled a real understanding of the broad range of needs of clients and peers to provide a holistic, pragmatic approach to projects and leadership.
Mark balances work with raising his three kids, and generally spending his time ferrying kids around to various sporting endeavours!

Graham is currently Group Capability Lead for Integrated Transport and Mobility for Aurecon in Australia and New Zealand; and also the Practice Leader for Western Australia and Northern Territory.
Graham has a varied experience having worked in local, state and national government and for consultants in the UK and Australia.
He was brought up in Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire in the UK and from there gained a BSc in Civil Engineering and subsequently a Masters degree by research in highway maintenance. Subsequently he has worked in accident investigation, highway planning, road standards and design, traffic engineering and modelling, traffic calming, movement and access studies, aviation planning, major urban highways, precinct planning, and movement and place.
Graham is a reviewer of technical papers for the Institution of Civil Engineers and avidly reads technical journals and news items to learn and also disseminate to others.
Graham relaxes(!) by playing hockey, cycling, travelling, eating and drinking.

Simon is the Group Lead for Advisory in WA, with a group of over 20 staff within GIS, Transport Advisory and recently Sustainability and Resilience teams. Simon is an accredited AECOM project manager and has been since 2014 with experience leading projects and multi-disciplinary teams, delivering options assessments and multi-criteria analysis (MCAs) for a various planning studies.
Simon’s 18 years of experience working in Western Australia, London, the UK and internationally is diverse. He is an advocate of and has a strong understanding and interest in delivering Transport Orientated Development (TOD) / infrastructure / masterplanning that caters for a variety of stakeholders and future planning needs. Simon’s practical experience working on a variety of city and development focus planning projects / studies in London and internationally developed strong views on how city scale planning should be implemented. Simon has worked in diverse locations such as north west China, the West Bank, Istanbul, Casablanca and Central London on a variety of strategic city scale masterplans and complex regeneration schemes – focussed on sustainable transport principles, centres planning and walkability at the heart of the driven solutions.
More recently Simon’s experience in the last 6 years has focussed on Government planning and major projects – delivering corridor infrastructure, station / precincts and Main Roads – highway components ranging from Business Case options assessments planning through to 15% concept design and laterally leading design teams within the construction lifecycle of the project under TCL-Zone 6.