Zeina is a Principal engineer at the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust London, leading diverse teams in the delivery of active travel infrastructure, public space, and healthy streets projects in the UK from feasibility through to construction. She has delivered complex low traffic neighbourhoods, healthy routes, school streets, pocket parks, greenways, and cycle infrastructure. She has developed guidance on Low traffic neighbourhood design, and regularly delivers training on healthy neighbourhoods, and best practice active travel infrastructure to local authorities in England and Scotland. She enjoys working with diverse communities, particularly children, to design equitable, accessible, and inspiring streets.
Zeina has a broad background in urban planning, transport planning, and engineering with an MSc in Transport and City Planning and an MEng in Environmental Engineering from University College London. She is also a co-founder of The Chain Effect, a Beirut-based organisation that focuses on facilitating cycling as a form of sustainable transport and development.