Alister is a Director of LDA Design and is a landscape architect, masterplanner and spatial planner with 30 years consultancy experience. He is a regular speaker on design process and infrastructure design and was a TEDx speaker at the Royal Society Whitehall series on infrastructure legacy. He has contributed to round table sessions on infrastructure to support policy development, presented to the Hendry Review and undertook a peer review of the NIC’s design principles.  His projects have received a number of awards including the Landscape Institute Presidents’ Award in 2014. He was lead author of IEMA guidance on the value of good design and its role in EIA process.  Alister led the first NSIP project in the UK and is a recognised expert in DCO projects and projects of scale. He sat on HS2’s first Design Panel, is a panel member of the Design Commission for Wales and advisor to local authorities on complex developments of scale. Recent major projects include: masterplan lead for Heathrow West alternative airport expansion, HS2 Euston Station, several large Solar projects and is design lead for Sizewell C. He is advisor on several new community projects.