Simon Munk Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Helping London become a cycling city. Heading up campaigning, behaviour change & community work at London Cycling Campaign.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Heading up major campaigns including #ClimateSafeStreets and managing our amazing and successful campaigns team.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

A recognised expert on cycle infrastructure and transport, I provide mentoring, strategic interventions and oversight and analysis on all aspects of roads transport, from planning low traffic neighbourhoods, cycle route design, to transport impacts on communities including on health, severance and air quality to London's politicians and officers, our borough groups etc.Personal achievements:- Brief and present regularly to high profile council, regional and national stakeholders on technical infrastructure and other transport issues with trusted partner & critical friend relationship at all levels.- Promote, critique, help develop and provide strategic support for schemes that often win awards and are often recognised as class-leading and successful in delivering positive real-world outcomes.- Develop tools, briefing papers and assessment systems using the latest data, evidence and academic research to successfully strengthen schemes and political action at borough and regional level.LCC achievements:- Ensured Mayor of London committed to tripling mileage of protected space for cycling on main roads in his term, Liveable Neighbourhood programme, and created first-ever London quality standard for cycling schemes- Helped ensure Mayor delivered rapid acceleration of cycling schemes during Covid crisis as part of "Streetspace" programme.- Worked with all London boroughs and local campaign groups to successfully generate political will, leading to bolder, better schemes and provided critical contributions prior to and at consultation to deliver substantive improvements to major infrastructure schemes.- Dealt with evidence, transport and planning in holistic, integrated manner, creating policy on and critiquing schemes through lens of cycling, walking, buses, freight, emissions reduction, health and technological innovation etc.

Copywriting, media training, videogame script editing and more in team of three London-based, award-winning consumer journalists.

- Award-winning journalist specialising in reviews, comment and features.- Specialist on consumer technology, outdoors and cycling products and videogames.- Contributor to national and international media.- Copywriter for national and international brands across similar areas of expertise, including web product copy, brochures, press releases, video scripts, ad copy, direct emails and more.- Launch Editor for Stuff Gamer, men’s lifestyle/videogames US magazine.

I was group Editor In Chief for all Shiny Media videogames blogs, including games-digest.com, xboxer.tv, wiiwii.tv and pspsps.tv.

Editor In Chief of Stuff Gamer - a one-off by Dennis Inc launched in the US in October 2003. Gamer was a spin-off of Stuff Magazine, combining videogame content with the satirical and offbeat spin of Stuff's US edition.

Rose from Editorial Assistant to commissioning four sections of Maxim Magazine. Was there for four years from launch. Covered investigative comedy journalism, consumer technology, videogames, "Weird World" paranormal sections as well as providing sex features, interviewing celebrities etc.

Evaluated TV media advertising effectiveness for large brands, as well as writing and editing database software that automated much of the analysis.

Bsc, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Music journalist at Impact student newspaper, founder member of The Black Lodge goth society, role-playing game.

Mechanical Engineering

A Levels, Mathematics