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Making London
livable for everyone
Meeting point: City Hall, London, July 13, 2011, 12:30 p.m.
On a walk through central London, city representative Martin Powell and our
City Account Manager Kevin Worster take stock of the challenges facing the
huge city and the opportunities for improving the lives of its inhabitants through
sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Siemens has been active in London for almost two hundred years, helping the
city stay abreast of rapid growth and address the questions of the future – with
answers that Siemens is already providing today.
Martin Powell (left)
Martin Powell is responsible for climate change projects at the
London Development Agency. The agency, which reports directly
to the mayor, aims to ensure that the city ’s economic growth is
sustainable. Powell was formerly head of project management
at Network Rail, the owner and operator of most of the rail infra-
structure in the UK.
Kevin Worster (right)
Kevin Worster has been Siemens’ City Account Manager in London
since October 2009. His job is to drive innovation and thought
leadership and leverage our entire portfolio to help master the
city ’s key challenges. In his thirteen years at Siemens, Worster
has held a number of management positions.
01 Kevin Worster
Martin, what is your idea of a sustainable city?
02 Martin Powell
A sustainable city is one that combines all of its various
strategies together on water, energy, waste and trans-
port, so that you have a single, holistic approach to tackle
your urban challenges. I might add that in striving to
achieve this, it is extremely helpful to have a single point
of contact at our industry partners, such as Siemens has
established with the City Account Management.