Dan Johnson, Strategic Advisor, Heart of London Business Alliance.

Dan has worked for over twenty years in the public realm, placemaking and sustainable transport. Dan has developed a specialism in placemaking, sustainability, and healthy and active travel.

Dan was the Director of Placemaking at the New West End Company, representing over 600 leading businesses, transforming the public realm, air quality and experience in the West End. Dan was the West End business community's lead representative on the £150m Oxford Street place-shaping project. Previously working for the City of York Council, JMP Consulting and Transport for London.
 
 At TfL Dan managed a multi-million-pound annual programme, leading the public realm, air quality, safety, cycling and pedestrian programmes across central and inner London. This included delivering concepts, strategies and on-the-ground schemes in places such as Soho, Strand-Aldwych, Bond Street, Vauxhall, Clapham Old Town, Baker Street and Bank junction.
 
 Dan was successful in building the case for and introducing London's first 20mph speed limits on the TLRN in the City of London and leading TfL's role in making Bank junction a cycle and bus-only scheme.
 
 Dan is advising clients on pathways to a zero-carbon future and leading the transformation of the West End's public spaces, including Charing Cross Road, St Martin's Lane and the creation of a new Cultural Quarter.
 
 Dan is a Design Expert for New London Architecture.