Dr Clarissa Han leads the NTRO Sustainability and Materials Performance Business Group, delivering high profile research on the use of recycled or alternative materials for sustainable transport network, assessment and development of resilient infrastructure, climate change adaptation, environmental impact assessment and advisory, life cycle assessment and economic evaluations of transport options, and sustainable future mobility solutions. She is also the NTRO Chief Technology Leader of Network Sustainability and Resilience. Clarissa has 25 years of engineering and research experience in transport management and operations, infrastructure sustainability and resilience, traffic studies and analysis, congestion cost estimation, and emerging ITS technologies, tools and performance benchmarking. Clarissa has been a major contributor to various national guidelines, standards and specifications in transport management and operations. She is the current Australian member of the PIARC Mobility Strategic Theme TC2.4 Road Network Operations/ITS (2020-24). Clarissa is also a board member of the International Road Federation (IRF). She is a regular speaker at various international conferences or forums such as the TRB Annual Meetings, PIARC conferences and the ITS World Congresses.

Michael Paterson is an accomplished commercially focused procurement professional, partnering with business to optimise financial, commercial and strategic outcomes. A strong leader with experience in end-to-end procurement, category management, focused on total lifecycle cost optimisation, innovation and supplier performance. Maintaining a future state focus of proactive practices to identify and deliver innovate supply solutions. Michael has spent 8 years at Pacific National and is currently the Procurement Manager – Rollingstock and has previously managed the fuel portfolio. His experience has also included infrastructure and indirect categories. Michael has had exposure to FMCG, manufacturing and the health care sector and has worked overseas. Michael has a Master of Business, Honours Degree in Industrial Engineering and Computing, Prince2 and Agile Project management accreditations and has recently started his MCIPS qualification.

Christopher Wong is the Director for Industry and Local Content at the Victorian Government’s Department of Transport. His role includes working with manufacturers and suppliers to build local industry capability in support of Victoria’s local content requirements and provide policy advice on ways to increase participation of local businesses in government projects. Prior to joining the Department of Transport, he spent time in what is now the Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions working on economic development. A mechanical engineer by training, he started his career in the automotive industry both here and in the United States.

Alexis is an industry leader with extensive experience in all stages of infrastructure delivery. This includes the development of strategies, project planning, planning and environmental approvals, funding submissions, design and construction. Throughout her career, Alexis has held key roles on major projects in the public and private sectors in Australia and the UK. Alexis is experienced across the transport sector in Victoria, having coordinated VicRoads inputs to Plan Melbourne and led Growth Area road network planning, business case development for 50 level crossing removals and three suburban road upgrade packages. Inspired by the challenge to build sustainable transport infrastructure, Alexis was instrumental in the establishment of ecologiQ, an initiative aiming to optimise the use of recycled and reused materials on Victorian infrastructure projects.

Tiff has been working in the rail industry for over 10 years, both in the operational and project spaces. Her early rail career was driving freight and coal trains, before moving into passenger trains here in Melbourne. Her enjoyment of building things and solving problems led her to move over to the projects team, where she was most recently working on the Melbourne Airport Rail project. Tiff is also passionate about diversity and inclusion, volunteering on the National Association for Women in Construction’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.