Priti’s passion for working in the slums of India with her dad, encouraged her to dedicate her engineering career to improve the lives of people, by providing quality infrastructure across Asia, Africa and the UK. Priti has been awarded as one of the top 50 women in engineering as well as the top 100 academics for policy making. Priti holds many influential positions, as the Director of Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, as the founder of Engineering for International Development Research Centre, and several charity trustee roles. Priti also got invited to present the importance of investing in sustainable infrastructure to the UK parliament. Priti conveys strong messages about the absence of infrastructure though stand-up comedy, which can be found here https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1147542435847289

Shahriar Caesar Rahman, is passionate about saving wildlife in Bangladesh. As a child, growing up in New York city, he volunteered to save the urban animals there. This inspired him to form his own charity ‘Creative Conservation Alliance’. Caesar has been working patiently for over 15 years to bring changes to the mindsets and policies on wildlife conservation. He is a champion for community based conservation, and won many prestigious awards worldwide. As we modernise and build new cities, we should not forget to make space for other species and let nature heal our planet.

শাহরিয়ার সিজার রহমান, বাংলাদেশের বন্যপ্রাণী সংরক্ষনের বিষয়ে, বিগত ১৫ বছর ধরে কাজ করছেন। শৈশবে নিউ ইয়র্ক শহরে বেড়ে ওঠার সময়ে তিনি সেখানকার শহুরে প্রাণীদের বাঁচাতে স্বেচ্ছাসেবক হিসেবে কাজ করেছিলেন। এখন সিজার 'ক্রিয়েটিভ কনজারভেশন অ্যালায়েন্স' প্রতিষ্ঠান এর মাধ্যমে, আমাদের মন-মানসিকতা এবং নীতিমালা পরিবর্তনে ধৈর্যের সাথে এগিয়ে যাচ্ছেন।

Michèle Young has over two decades of experience as an architect, in the UK and Poland, and as a humanitarian and international development practitioner. Michèle advised and supported teams worldwide to deliver best practice in emergency shelter, housing reconstruction and social infrastructure (re)construction in both conflict and environmental disasters in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific.

Now Michèle is the Development Coordination Manager, for Tower Hamlet, a local authority in London. In this role she is offering innovative and practical solutions to tackling the negative impacts of construction on residents and businesses and supporting a move toward a Circular Economy for the built environment.