Role: Core Staff |

Skye Duncan

Title: Director, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Skye Duncan joined NACTO in 2014 to serve as the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program that will develop a Global Street Design Guide and work with cities on street and public space design around the world.

Melinda Hanson

Title: Deputy Director

Melinda Hanson is the Deputy Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative at NACTO. Over the past decade, Melinda has worked with a range of international organizations on initiatives to promote sustainable urban transport and support cities to adapt to climate change. She’s worked on public transit projects with the Asian Development Bank and served […]

Ankita Chachra

Title: Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Ankita joined NACTO in 2015 as Program Associate for the Global Designing Cities Initiative. She is currently assisting in the development of a Global Street Design Guide that will address street and public space design challenges, which cities around the world are currently facing.

Abhimanyu Prakash

Title: Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Abhimanyu Prakash joined NACTO in early 2015 as a Program Associate for the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multi-year program that will develop a Global Street Design Guide and work with cities on street and public space design around the world through Bloomberg’s Initiative for Global Road Safety.

Fabrizio Prati

Title: Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Fabrizio joined NACTO in 2015. As a program manager, he coordinates the work of the Global Designing Cities Initiative in Bogotá while participating in the initiative’s efforts in Fortaleza and the other cities of the program.

Eduardo Pompeo Martins

Title: Program Manager, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Eduardo joined NACTO as a program manager in 2017 to contribute to GDCI’s efforts in promoting safe, equitable, and sustainable cities through better street design. As part of Bloomberg’s Initiative for Global Road Safety, he provides technical assistance to the City of Fortaleza in applying the design principles from the Global Street Design Guide. Prior […]

Annie Peyton

Title: Senior Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Annie works with GDCI’s new Streets for Kids program, creating a supplement to the Global Street Design Guide. She has worked towards social and environmental justice in cities, most recently in Thailand at the intersection of landscape architecture and climate resilience. Previously, she co-managed a construction site in northern Rwanda with MASS Design Group, and worked […]

Anna Siprikova

Title: Senior Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Anna joined NACTO in 2018 to work on Global Designing Cities Initiative- Streets for Kids program, creating a supplement to the Global Street Design Guide. She is an urban planner and specializes in public space design, management, placemaking and civic engagement. Anna has a passion for working with people in communities to create the public spaces […]

Majed Abdulsamad

Title: Program Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Majed Abdulsamad is a Program Associate with the Global Designing Cities Initiative, a multiyear program that developed the Global Street Design Guide and works with cities around the world on street and public space design through Bloomberg’s Initiative for Global Road Safety. Prior to joining NACTO, Majed worked in the public sector through an internship in the […]

Kat Gowland

Title: Design Associate, Global Designing Cities Initiative

Kat joined NACTO in 2018 as a Design Associate for the Global Designing Cities Initiative. She’s currently supporting work on GDCI’s Streets for Kids and Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) programs. In her endeavor to create more inclusive and equitable cities for people, Kat has recently worked with Copenhagenize Design Co. in Montreal to […]