Executive Director, Lagos Urban Development Initiative
Olamide is an Urban Activist – researcher, writer, and artist, holding degrees in BSc Architecture, MA Design and MPhil Infrastructure Management. Olamide started her career in PR, giving her a business and marketing foundation. Olamide has worked in London, South Africa and Nigeria with various organisations focusing on transport management, slum upgrading and housing rights in urbanising African cities.
Currently based in Lagos, Olamide is engaged in bridging the gap between communities and their environment as the Director at Lagos Urban Development Initiative. She is also a trustee at Open House Lagos and the Editor-in-Chief of the Lost in Lagos Magazine.
Scott Cain is the CEO of active travel business, Active Things. He is also the co-founder of RunSome, a campaign to inspire more of us to run some everyday journeys. He holds academic roles at King's College London (CUSP) and UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, and is an Associate of the Connected Places Catapult, a world-leading urban innovation centre focused on mobility and place.
Celebrating the transition to traffic-free city centres & a systematic land use transition away from redundant roads and parking to new housing, public parks & public realm.