Shaping Liveable Cities: A Cross-Domain Approach to Sustainable Mobility

KEYNOTE AND PANEL SPEAKER
Prof Stephen Goldsmith
CLC Visiting Fellow,
Professor of Urban Policy and Director of Data-Smart City Solutions,
Bloomberg Center for Cities, Harvard University

Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Data-Smart City Solutions program at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Data-Smart City Solutions highlights local government efforts in the use of data analytics with community input to reshape the relationship between government and citizens. Also under his portfolio is the Project on Municipal Innovation, a platform for cities’ senior staff to share and adapt best practices and innovative policy ideas. Complementing these efforts, his podcast, the Data-Smart City Pod, highlights top innovators and showcases how cities are leveraging data to drive innovation and improve community outcomes.

He previously served as Deputy Mayor of New York and Mayor of Indianapolis, where he earned a reputation as one of the country’s leaders in public-private partnerships and neighborhood revitalization. Stephen was also the chief domestic policy advisor to the George W. Bush campaign in 2000, the Chair of AmeriCorps, and the prosecutor for Marion County, Indiana from 1979 to 1990. He has authored and coauthored various books on cities, including his most recent two with Kate Markin Coleman, Collaborative Cities: Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems and Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development, both of which deal with the importance of place and cross sector partnerships. He is recognized as a leading authority on local government and applied technology. He writes regularly for Government Technology and Governing Magazines, advises technology companies that provide solutions to government, and has frequently appeared in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe and New York Times.

PANEL SPEAKER
Dr Xie Litian
Senior Data Scientist (Transport), Urban Planning & Design Technology Centre of Excellence, Urban Redevelopment Authority

Dr Xie Litian is a Senior Specialist, working at the Design & Planning Lab of URA. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor, teaching on urban mobility modules at NUS. Dr Xie has more than 20 years of extensive experience working in the public and private sectors, covering key areas of Transport Planning, Land Use-Transport interaction Modelling, Traffic Simulation and Mobility Solutions.

PANEL SPEAKER
Ray Krishna
Head of Department,
Ramboll Mobility Singapore

Ray Krishna is Head of Department for Ramboll Mobility in Singapore, with nearly 20 years of transport planning experience. Before joining Ramboll, she co-founded a homegrown consultancy, building a strong foundation in local mobility needs and approaches.

With deep knowledge of local context and regional sensitivities, she leverages Ramboll’s global expertise to apply tailored international best practices in Southeast Asia. A strong advocate of Singapore’s transport achievements, she shares successes globally to foster two-way knowledge exchange.

Having led landmark projects across diverse transport services, Ray proudly contributes to Singapore’s car-lite journey and champions sustainable, people-centric mobility.

PANEL SPEAKER
Dr Sergi Sauri
Director of CENIT at CIMNE, Associate Professor at UPC-BarcelonaTech

Dr. Sergi Sauri has been the Director of the Centre for Transport Innovation-CENIT since 2013, an innovation unit of CIMNE. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the UPC-BarcelonaTech, teaching Economics at the School of Civil Engineering.

He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the UPC, a degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona, and a Master in Maritime Law and Business and Port Management by the UPC. His doctoral thesis was awarded the IV Prize of the Abertis Chair of Infrastructure Management. He also serves as the President of the Ibero-American Network of Universities of Mobility and Territory (RUITEM), Academic Coordinator of the Postgraduate in Smart City and Mobility Management at UPC, Director of the Master in Logistics, Transport and Mobility at UPC from 2013 to 2016, and Lecturer (part-time) at Tecnocampus, Pompeu Fabra University from 2016 to 2023. Dr. Sauri was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2008 and served as a member of the Governing Board of the College of Civil Engineers of Catalonia from 2014 to 2022. Previously, he worked as a project manager at SENER, Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. in transport planning and economics.

Throughout his career, Dr. Sauri has authored numerous scientific publications and led technology transfer projects, collaborating with multilateral entities, ministries, and the European Commission.

MODERATOR
Dan Hill
Director,
Melbourne School of Design

Dan Hill is Director of Melbourne School of Design, the graduate school in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. A designer and urbanist, Dan’s previous leadership roles include the Swedish government’s innovation agency Vinnova in Stockholm, Arup in London and Sydney. Fabrica in Treviso, the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA in Helsinki, and the UK government’s Future Cities Catapult and the BBC in London. Dan is also a Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Practice and a founder member of the Council on Urban Initiatives.