John Pucher

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Website

Email: johnpucher{at}gmail.com

John Pucher is professor emeritus at the Bloustein School. He was a professor at Rutgers University from 1978 to 2014, conducting research on urban transportation in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Over the past 15 years, John's research has focused on walking and bicycling, and how to improve their safety and convenience for all age groups, for women as well as men, and for all levels of physical ability. He encourages walking and cycling for recreation as well as for practical trips to work, school, and shopping to increase physical activity and to help people toward healthier lifestyles. John has published three books and over 100 articles in academic and professional journals. His most recent book is entitled “City Cycling,” published by MIT Press in 2012. John has spent several years as a visiting professor at universities in Germany, Canada, and Australia, and most recently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was visiting professor of city planning and transportation.

In 2015 John retired from Rutgers University and moved back to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he grew up. He continues to do research on sustainable transport policies around the world, and is currently working on three funded projects: "Transforming Urban Transport: The Role of Political Leadership" for Harvard University and the Volvo Foundation; "Lessons from western EU cities for eastern EU cities" for the European Union and UN Habitat; and "2016 Benchmarking Report for Walking and Bicycling in the US" for the Alliance for Biking and Walking and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. He is also working with German, Swiss, and Austrian colleagues on a comparison of the successful transport policies and increasingly sustainable travel behavior (more walking, cycling, and public transport use) in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, and Vienna. In the coming years, however, he plans on increasingly focusing his efforts on improving bicycling and walking conditions in the Southeast, where he is now living.

John has given over a hundred keynote addresses, conference talks, and hour-long public speeches on the issues of cycling, walking, public health, public transportation, sustainable cities, and public policy, all in an international context that reflects his comparative research and extensive visits and stays as visiting professor at European, Canadian, and Australian universities.

For free PDF and Word file downloads of selected publications and PDF files of powerpoint presentations, please see John's Rutgers University webpage ("recent publications" and "powerpoints"):

Webpage:  http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/pucher

Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/JohnPucher

Paul K. Simpson, M.D.

Pennsylvania USA

Phone: 814-867-4266

Paul Simpson is a practicing Internal Medicine physician in State College, Pennsylvania. His studies and writings have focused on relationships between inequality, transportation and health. He has lectured at universities and at medical, transportation and government policy conferences in Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and numerous U.S. cities. 

As a full-time primary care physician, Simpson sees daily the effects of social realities, policy choices, marketing influences and media on the lives and health of those under his care and in his community. His marriage and twin college-age daughters provide first hand insight into the pressures these same forces bear on families. This perspective and familiarity with research revealing the underlying systemic constraints acting on individuals when they make choices detrimental to their health informs his analysis and commentary.

Simpson has been a bicycle commuter since 1975. As an obese adolescent who, at age 18, lost 90 pounds through dietary changes and adoption of bicycling as his preferred transportation mode, he has a unique perspective on causes and potential remedies of eating disorders, malnutrition and the obesity epidemic.

Simpson has served as vice-president and webmaster of the Centre Region Bicycle Coalition. He heads the coalition’s Bicyclist and Pedestrian Safety Task Force. He is co-chair of The People’s Power Exchange, an organization working to develop Tanzanian bike coops. The Exchange ships discarded bicycles to Tanzania in conjunction with an educational exchange of artists between North America and Africa.

Simpson’s lectures have focused on:

• Community destruction and the negative health impacts resulting from sprawl development and our society’s excessive reliance on automobiles.
• The role of physicians in designing, promoting, and developing communities which make physical activity a normal part of daily life.
• Recognizing and mitigating the impacts of social inequality on human health.
• How systemic inequality in transportation policy leads to detrimental status effects on health.
• How the War on Terror has been used to discriminate against pedestrians, bicyclists, and users of mass transit.
• How globalization undermines health by affecting transportation systems.

Paul K. Simpson, M.D.
1301 East Branch Road
State College, PA 16801
814-867-4266 (H)

814-574-6334 (C)

570-726-7992 (O)

Karen Nozik

Washington, D.C., USA

Email: karennozik{at}gmail.com

Karen Nozik recently served as the Director of Ally Development and Partnerships at the National Parks Conservation Association. She is also the founder of Eco-Writer, LLC a commercial freelance writing company. Her professional mission is to improve the world one exquisite word at a time.

Until 2005, Ms. Nozik served as Communications Director for Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), an international leader in green development, energy efficiency, and sustainable use of natural resources. RMI's clients included: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Stonyfield Farm, The Joyce Foundation, The Education Foundation of America, The Hewlett Foundation, Texas Instruments, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, among others.

During her tenure as RMI’s Communications Director, Ms. Nozik helped to fund, publish, and promote CEO Amory Lovins’ book, “Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security,” which encourages the United States to wean itself off oil.

Prior to RMI, Ms. Nozik served for three years as Director of Outreach for Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, working with communities to preserve and transform unused rail corridors into trails. In that capacity, she directed a nationwide effort to identify, develop, and maintain strategic partnerships with public health, smart growth organizations, and federal, state, and local governments to promote the benefits of trails and greenways, and to ensure media coverage. The scope of her work included writing, editing, marketing, positioning, publication development and management, strategic planning and facilitation, fundraising, on-site technical assistance, government and community relations, staffing, and conference and event planning.

Before joining Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Ms. Nozik was the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Bicycle Federation of America in Washington, DC, a national non-profit advocacy organization. Nozik served as a primary liaison between the bicycle industry, national advocacy organizations, local grassroots groups, schools, and the media during the reauthorization of the 1996 federal transportation bill, ISTEA. She was part of the committee to launch the Partnership for a Walkable America, a coalition of health, safety, government, business, and transportation organizations advocating building physically active communities.

Nozik’s background and experience cover almost every area of writing, editing, communications, and fundraising with special expertise in environmental issues.  Ms. Nozik was the Communications Manager for The National Office Paper Recycling Project at the United States Conference of Mayors, an environmental public-private partnership formed to jumpstart the paper recycling industry. She began her career in the advertising industry, working for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and McCann Erickson in New York.

As an undergraduate, she studied journalism and public relations at the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, and received a Masters degree in Natural Resources Management from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in 1992. Her production experience includes positions at KSNO radio in Aspen, Colorado and the NBC affiliate, Channel 8, in Rochester, NY.

Over the years, Karen has developed, written, edited, and produced a variety of magazine and newspaper articles, publications, annual reports, web site copy, videos, speeches, funding proposals, RFPs, grant applications, appeal letters, newsletters, workshops, and conferences.

Sue Knaup

Arizona, USA

Website

Phone: 928-541-9841
Email: sue{at}onestreet.org

Sue Knaup is the founder of One Street and has led organizations since the mid-'70s in the fields of animal rights, environment, special populations and bicycle advocacy. For more than a decade of this time, she served as executive director of bicycle advocacy nonprofits at the local and national levels. On the for-profit side, Sue owned and operated a local bike shop for 13 years. Serving on governmental councils, and committees has helped Sue understand the issues faced by leaders in this sector. Her international experience comes from extensive world travels and working with bicycle advocacy leaders in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Australia and Africa.

Sue is the author of four books--Defying Poverty with Bicycles, Cures for Ailing Organizations, Backyard Aluminum Casting, and Bike Hunt--all available through One Street Press and other book vendors.

Sue specializes in interactive presentations that involve participants from the first moment on. She follows the principle that in order to learn, one must make a personal connection to the materials being presented. In order to find this connection with each and every one of the people Sue presents to, she requests their input and adapts her presentations to their personal experiences. Sue's workshops are even more hands on, ensuring that each participant leaves with personalized materials that they can plug directly into their organizations. Sue's specialties include:

• Campaign planning
• Leading organizations
• Organizational development and capacity building
• Ethical management
• Overcoming organizational emergencies
• Social Bike Business
• Bicycle mechanic training
• The bicycle as a solution for all the world's problems

Sue's presentations and workshops can fit into a few hours or span several days. She has also taught a semester-long university course at Prescott College called The Bicycle: Vehicle for Social Change.

Morten I Kerr

Oslo, Norway

Website

Phone: 0047 920 30 697
Email: morten{at}kerr.no

Morten has been bicycling regularly since the beginning of the 1990’s, using the bike as the everyday means of transportation, both for commuting (“bike to work”) and in the neighborhood, and touring with the whole family, both in Norway and abroad. From the beginning he’s been cycling all year round, being exposed to the harsh elements of Norway.

Soon he got engaged as an activist with the Norwegian Cyclists’ Association in the Oslo region, and in 2006 he was elected President of the national organization, a position he still holds.

Morten has written numerous articles on cycling and cycling policy in local and national papers, for example on topics like bike route signage and cycling in an environmental and health perspective (some translated into English and published on the ECF and OneStreet web sites). He’s also written a number of articles on bike tours for the Norwegian cycling magazine “På Sykkel” and the Dutch magazine TRING!.

Morten can speak (and write articles) on topics like:

• Cycle tourism, bike tours in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Northern Ireland, France, Germany, Poland, Czeck Republic, Switzerland;
• Cycling in an environmental perspective;
• Bicycle policy (local and national);
• Bike routes: planning, signage and quality control.
• Bike Sharing systems
• Winter cycling

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Copenhagen, Denmark

Website

Phone: [+45] 26 25 97 26
Mikael Colville-Andersen is an urban mobility expert and "bicycle anthropologist" who is often referred to as Denmark's Bicycle Ambassador. He lectures around the world on how cities can - and should - re-establish the bicycle as a respected and accepted transport form.

As CEO for Copenhagenize Consulting he advises cities and towns regarding infrastructure as well as marketing and promotion campaigns that promote cycling positively.

With his presentation ”Four Goals for Promoting Urban Cycling”, Colville-Andersen provides the winning formula for how cities and towns can gear up for Bicycle Culture 2.0. Using Copenhagen's journey – then, now and towards the future - as an example he highlights how other cities can be inspired by the modern Copenhagen Experience.

The 500,000 people on bicycles each day in Greater Copenhagen are not 'cyclists', nor are they 'environmentalists'. They merely choose to ride because the bicycle is simply the quickest way through the city. With his unique combination of anthropology and marketing, Colville-Andersen explains how regular citizens can be encouraged to choose the bicycle.

The bicycle is the most effective tool in our toolboxes for achieving that new century goal of re-creating liveable cities.

Colville-Andersen has presented his Four Goals for Promoting Urban Cycling talk at universities and conferences in over 20 cities in 13 countries.

In addition to the popular Four Goals talk, Colville-Andersen has other presentations that have been given around the world.

Bicycle Anthropology presents the audience with the idea that focusing on mainstreaming urban cycling would benefit greatly from looking at the bicycle as a tool and regarding the cyclists through an anthropological viewfinder.

He also speaks about Behavourial Challenges for Promoting Urban Cycling wherein he dissects the current tendency to focus only on cyclist behaviour instead of all traffic users. This serves to further alienate those who cycle in cities in towns and does little for encouraging Citizen Cyclists to consider the bicycle as transport.

Copenhagenize Consulting – Building Better Bicycle Cultures - www.copenhagenize.eu

Blogs: www.copenhagenize.com  / www.copenhagencyclechic.com

Speakers - Europe

Mikael Colville-Andersen - Denmark

• Mikael specializes in bicycling cultures and inspiring people to ride.

Morten I Kerr - Norway

• Morten specializes in bicycle tourism, routes and signage.

Speakers - North America

Sue Knaup - Arizona, USA

• Sue specializes in interactive workshops on leadership, campaigns and social business.

Karen Nozik - Washington, DC, USA

• Karen specializes in policy development, marketing and communications.

John Pucher - New Jersey, USA

• John specializes in transportation policy and international comparitive studies.

Paul K. Simpson, M.D.  - Pennsylvania, USA

• Paul specializes in public health and social equity effects of transportation systems.