Kathryn King manages the Urban Mobility Programme at Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, where she co-author of the Keeping Cities Moving plan and the lead for the Innovating Streets for People programme. She joined the Agency following four years with Auckland Transport where she transformed the cycling programme and oversaw the city's largest ever investment in cycling.

Kathryn led the speed management programme, that has delivered survivable speeds across 700km of streets in Auckland. Kathryn spent over ten years in London, managing walking, cycling and safety projects, over eight of them with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.