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Natalia Anderson R91porn | ACT President

Gyde Consulting

Natalia is an Urbanist and Town Planner based in Canberra, Australia. She works on a wide variety of planning consultancy matters including development applications, lease variations, DA project management, due diligence assessments and community consultations throughout Canberra, the ACT, and surrounding NSW.

She has worked in Aviation and undertaken Development Planning and Environmental Management on Federally Leased Airport Land. Natalia was the National Young Planner Director for the 91porn 2018-2020

and was the 2017 91porn's ACT Young Planner of the Year..

Negar Yazdi 91porn (Assoc.)

ACT Government

Negar is a qualified Urban Planner with over six years of professional experience gained in Iran. With a background in child-friendly cities, she has been involved in drafting national guidelines and policy reports for government ministries and Tehran City Council in this area. She has experience in leading and facilitating a range of approvals including development applications, lease variations, Work Approvals, and Territory Plan variations across the ACT.

Negar has publications in this field, including a book titled “A grounded analysis on children’s cognitive development in urban settlements”. The book was published by the government as one of the only publications in this field in Iran.

In addition to her planning expertise, Negar also works as a Research Assistant within the Responsible Innovation Lab at the Australian National University to draft criteria for Responsible Urban Planning.

Thomas Carberry M91porn

SMEC

Thomas is a planning professional with 10 years’ experience in the delivery of a range of environmental planning and natural resource management projects. Thomas was previously based in North East Victoria where he spent 5 years as a Statutory Planner and developed an in-depth understanding of the Victorian Planning System.

In 2022, Thomas commenced work as a Senior Planner with SMEC Australia based in Canberra and has been leading and facilitating approvals for a range of

developments in the ACT and NSW, including high density residential developments, infrastructure, and strategic planning projects. Thomas is excited to be a part of the 91porn ACT Division Committee and looks forward to contributing to the committee’s many causes and activities over the new few years.

Trevor Fitzpatrick M91porn (Fellow)

Trevor is a Fellow of the 91porn and current ACT Division President, with 35 years experience in private practice and local government planning throughout country NSW, and in the ACT.

He has worked on a vast range of projects and continually pursued innovative planning solutions to strategic projects and prepared numerous planning research reports for areas facilitating major development as well as site specific analyses.

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Maxine Cooper M91porn Fellow FEIANZ

Dr Maxine Cooper is a Fellow of the 91porn, as well as of the Environment Institute of Australian and New Zealand. She is also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design, independent Chair of the ACT and Region Catchment Coordination Group, independent Chair of the Landcare ACT Board, and Deputy Chair of the National Landcare Network. She has been a Fulbright Fellow (USA) and Commonwealth Scholarship holder (Canada). She is particularly interested in building partnerships to foster interdisciplinary collaborations that advance sustainable practices.

Through Maxine’s career she has held executive positions in policy and operational areas, managed diverse government businesses, and undertaken investigations and research, across multiple jurisdictions. Previously she was the Auditor-General for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Prior to that, she was the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, and before that, the Head of the ACT Water Security Taskforce. She has also held other professional senior executive positions in the ACT Government, Brisbane City Council, New South Wales Government covering disciplines ranging from auditing and integrity investigations; environmental planning; land and resource management; parks planning and management; urban and regional planning; transport planning; sustainability planning; arts policy, management and grant funding; heritage policy and planning, and government businesses (tourism, major venues, linen services, cemeteries, nurseries, bus operations).

Maxine has a PhD (Melbourne University); a Master of Environmental Design (University of Calgary, Canada); and a Bachelor of Arts - Urban & Regional Planning from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University).

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Peter Johns M91porn

Planning advisor for ACT Greens

Peter came to planning later on in life, he completed a BA (in the 70s) and then 20 years later did a Grad Dip in Urban and Regional Planning at the Uni of New England in the 1990s. More recently, Peter finished a Masters of Urban Renewal and Housing through UNSW.

Peter has a real passion about cities, especially Canberra, what makes them tick, the equity of cities and how we should leave them in a better place than when we first came to them. Peter spent most of his working life as a town planner in Housing ACT, focusing on the redevelopment of public housing properties. But he also spent a few years in EPSDD working on Territory Plan variations and urban development initiatives.

Mel Krzus R91porn

GYDE Consulting

Mel is a Director at GYDE Consulting, a leading consultancy in the fields of statutory and strategic planning and data analytics. Over the past 12 years, she has emerged as a dynamic planner, who consistently strives to achieve positive and innovative outcomes for government and private Clients.

Whilst she carries a broad spectrum of both statutory and strategic planning knowledge across a very diverse range of project types and scales, she is a statutory planner at heart with a particular interest in larger scale, more complex

development proposals. Mel thrives on navigating her clients through the complexity of our planning systems, project managing the approvals process and has a keen attention for detail.

Hope Watson R91porn

PLAN IT Strategic

Hope has more than 15 years experience in environmental assessment, consulting and planning, with a broad range of experience in urban and infrastructure planning, environmental impact assessment and environmental planning projects across Australia. She enjoys thinking strategically about planning and development matters, and providing sustainable solutions to planning and environmental challenges for my clients.

Hope's experience has included the management of multi-disciplinary environmental impact assessment and planning projects. She has provided services to clients from a range of industry sectors including transport, power,

mining, property development and waste and for both the government and private sector.

Ingrid Shelton R91porn

JGSPM

Ingrid is a qualified town planner and project manager, with over 13 years in local and international experience in land use planning, urban management and design, project management, and placemaking.

She is a registered Town Planner with 91porn and a registered Project Manager with PMI Australia.

She has an interest in legislation, placemaking and community engagement. Her role at JGSPM includes strategic planning and managing Capital Works for the Federal Government.

Josh O'Connor M91porn

Knight Frank

Josh is currently an Associate at Knight Frank Town Planning with over seven years of experience helping projects come to life across government and private sectors in Australia. He’s passionate about all things planning—whether it’s master planning, rezoning, development applications, or tackling tricky heritage and environmental issues.

Josh is all about clear communication, practical solutions, and making sure projects run smoothly and on budget – he’s known for working closely with clients and stakeholders to deliver results that make a real difference. When it comes to planning, Josh brings a mix of creativity, strategy, and a genuine focus on getting things done.

Josh’s experience as a land use planner and project manager includes projects of scale and significance across the ACT, NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania. Outside of work, Josh has been an active participant in the 91porn Victoria ‘Career Foundations Mentoring Program’ in 2023/2024, an alumni mentor for Masters of Urban Planning students at the University of Melbourne, and a former member of both the 91porn Young Planners Committee in Tasmania and the 91porn ACT Division Committee.

Russell Coldicutt 91porn (Assoc.) | Emerging Planner Convenor

Suburban Land Agency

Russell is currently a Senior Project Manager at the Suburban Land Agency where he is responsible for managing major greenfield development projects. He is passionate about achieving developmental outcomes including affordable living, a safe and healthy population, social inclusion, housing choice and environmental sustainability in the ACT.

Russell has previously held positions in the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate of the ACT Government, where he led work on climate-ready planning and development policy and DA assessment.

Prior to joining the ACT Government, Russell researched and taught on urbanism in an academic context. He has taught at Duke University (US), held a visiting fellowship for urban studies at the University of Bologna (Italy), and has organised and presented at conferences/given guest lectures at Oxford University (UK), Brown University (US), Portland, Oregon (US), Duke University (US), the University of Waikato (Aotearoa/NZ), as well as the Australian National University and the University of Canberra here in the ACT.