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Eddie Akinyemi is a senior staff member at the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE) in The Netherlands. IHE is an international institute for scientific research and postgraduate education and training in the fields of water, environment and transport. He has over 20 years of experience in scientific research, education and consulting in transport and road engineering internationally. He has published over 30 papers in journals and presented numerous papers at many international conferences. His key research topics include traffic management for rapidly developing cities, operationalization of the concepts of mobility, accessibility and sustainable transport development and the environmental capacity of roads.
Paul Barter is a visiting fellow at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, where he undertakes research on the linkages and interactions of urban transport with sustainable development, social justice, urban space and morphology. His work has a particular focus on urban transport policy and practice in Asia and the developing world. He initially pursued these interests through several collaborative projects while associated with the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He was co-founder and coordinator from 1995 to 2000 of an international information-sharing and advocacy network, the Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific (SUSTRAN Network) which was based in Malaysia (and now Indonesia). He is still an information services coordinator for the network on a voluntary basis.
Eli Ben-Michael is a graduate in psychology and is enrolled in studies for a master of philosophy degree at the Hebrew University. He has published research on the health impacts of exposures to ionizing radiation in nuclear workers, non-ionizing radiation and radar, organochlorine exposures and the effects of raised speed limits on case fatality.
Dipankar Chakraborti is director of the School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has undertaken research on air pollution, groundwater pollution and fluoride poisoning in West Bengal and India. He holds three patents on techniques for arsenic removal, has written ten chapters in books and monographs and authored and co-authored more than 250 papers in international journals. He is a visiting professor at a number of universities in Austria, Belgium, the Peoples Republic of China, Spain and Venezuela.
Martin Dietrich is a conservation biologist based in Germany, where he specializes in aquatic habitats. He has pioneered the interaction between ecologists and social scientists on sustainability issues and co-organized a symposium on Ecological economics: integrating ecology and socio-economic development during the 1998 INTECOL congress in Florence, Italy. He is a grass-roots activist within the German Friends of the Earth (BUND Bund fr Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland).
Elaine Fletcher is a US journalist and transport researcher based in Jerusalem. She corresponds for the Washington, DC-based Newhouse News Service and is the author of a number of documents on transport policy in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including Transport, Environment and Social Equity published by the Tel Aviv-based Adva Institute. She is a member of the board of directors of the Israeli-based Committee for Public Transport. At present she is the editor of the Israeli bi-monthly magazine ERETZ .
Ralph Gakenheimer is professor of urban planning at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He specializes in problems of cities in developing countries which are experiencing rapid motorization and land development. He is currently undertaking research in Latin America, China and India.
Gary Ginsberg is the director of Medical Technology Assessment Sector, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel. He has 30 years of experience of working as a health economist in the UK, US and Israeli health services. His research interests include quantifying, in both epidemiological and economic terms, the costs and benefits of health effects on morbidity and mortality of new technologies such as vaccinations, new pharmaceuticals, bicycle-helmet laws, new roads and new travel modalities, such as electric cars or the expansion of the train system.
Frazer Goodwin is a policy officer at the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) based in Brussels, Belgium. T&E is the umbrella organization for environmental non-governmental organizations across the continent and acts as Europes voice for a sustainable transport future. He has been with T&E for more than five years and has campaigned on a range of transport policies, from vehicle emission and fuel quality standards to pricing policy and infrastructure decision-making. His background is in human ecology, which he studied in Huddersfield and Brussels.
Gary Haq is a research associate of the Stockholm Environment Institute at York (SEI-Y), University of York, UK, where he undertakes research on urban environment issues and methodologies for environmental and sustainability assessment. His current research focuses on urban air quality management and transport in Europe and Asia. He is author of the book Towards Sustainable Transport Planning: A Comparison between Britain and The Netherlands (Avebury, 1997). He coordinates the Implementing Sustainability Research group at SEI-Y and is a member of the UNEP/WHO Steering Group for Air Pollution in the Megacities of Asia (APMA) project.
