NSW Regional Spotlight

Emily leads Transport’s E-micromobility Program, playing a key role in ensuring the Government can realise its ambitions for this emerging transport option to play a leading role in reducing car dependency and achieving social, environmental and economic benefits. She also drives cross-government initiatives to ensure people in our community are safe on and around e-bikes and e-scooters.

Emily has almost two decades experience working in the public and private sector to deliver excellence in strategy, policy, communication and engagement. She is passionate about building great relationships and delivering meaningful outcomes. 

Rob Scott is a senior infrastructure leader with over 25 years’ experience, specialising in civil engineering, water utilities, and asset management. He’s currently the Director of Infrastructure & Engineering Services at MidCoast Council, responsible for delivering essential services across transport, water, sewer and more.

With qualifications in civil and environmental engineering management and as a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Rob combines technical depth with strategic leadership. Known for his direct, collaborative approach, he’s a strong advocate for local government and passionate about sharing knowledge to improve outcomes for communities.

With more than 20 years experience working in multiple iterations of the NSW transport planning agencies, Jennifer has focused on plan delivery at the best scale for the task at hand. From vision setting, statewide performance assessment and prioritisation to the impact of a single driveway on a State Road, understanding the forecast outcomes, trade offs and changes has been a constant of her career.

John is a senior transport planner with a breadth of experience in local government, consulting and state government. His most recent role was with the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development delivering Special Activation Precincts. Prior to this role John was Senior Transport Engineer at Port Macquarie-Hastings Council. John had a long career with global consulting firm Arup working in Sydney, southern Africa and Ireland. John is passionate about using effective transport and infrastructure planning to enhance equity and social cohesion across the diverse regional communities of NSW.

Nicole is a traffic engineer and transport planner with over 25 years of experience in private multi-disciplinary and specialist consultancies. Nicole has led teams of people with varying disciplines, including Transport Modellers, Traffic Engineers, Transport Advisors, Transport Planners, Transport Technology specialists and Data Analysts.

Throughout her career, Nicole has delivered a broad range of projects in regional areas, including wind farm developments, road safety audits and strategies, regional road upgrades, special activation precincts (master planning and concept design), mine access roads and various traffic impact assessments. In many of Nicole’s project roles she has been responsible for stakeholder and community engagement and workshop facilitation, which leverages her ability to bring people together to collaboratively achieve a common outcome.

Melanie is the Portfolio leader for Safer Asset Performance, based in Brisbane. She has worked across business sectors including academia, public and private entities in South Africa and Australia. 

She is registered as a Chartered Engineer with Engineers Australia (MIE Aust CPEng) as well as an RPEQ. She leads large scale multi-disciplinary projects, with a particular interest in combining innovative technology and road safety.

Ram brings extensive experience in the deployment and optimisation of survey vehicles and mobile data collection 
platforms, including SCRIM, iPAVe, and NSV.

He plays a key role in enabling councils and road authorities to better manage their road networks through high-resolution data 
collection, condition assessments, asset management solutions and evidence-based decision-making. 

His strengths lie in business development, program management, stakeholder engagement, and process improvement, 
ensuring that each project is delivered efficiently, on time, in full, and in alignment with strategic goals

Christophe is an experienced consultant with over 20 years’ experience in road corridor planning, project planning and development, business case development, economic analysis, traffic impact assessment and road safety analysis across a variety of projects. Christophe started as a graduate with the then NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), before working on the planning of major bypass projects on the Pacific Highway corridor. 

He has worked in South Australia (developing a corridor strategy for the Dukes Highway, whilst studying towards his Masters), Queensland (long-term planning of roads in Far North Queensland), before settling in Newcastle in 2014, where he then re-joined the then NSW Roads and Maritime Services (RMS).  Since that time, Christophe has worked with SMEC (as Principal Planner) for 5 years, and is now a Technical Director Transportation with GHD, where has been since January 2023. Being based in the Hunter, Christophe works and supports a number of projects across the region, and is an integral member of the broader Mobility Solutions team based in Sydney, where he is also supported by Mark Leigh-Lucas (also based in Newcastle).