New Amsterdam Bike Slam

Jury

	Renaud Dutreil Renaud Dutreil is Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, based in New York. He represents LVMH in North America, notably to public authorities and the business community. Mr. Dutreil is a graduate of France's Ecole Normale Superieure and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1987/89), and is a member of the Council of State. Most recently, from 2005 to 2007, he served as the country's Minister for small & medium-sized businesses, commerce, crafts and liberal professions. For the last year, Mr. Dutreil has actively promoted LVMH's commitment to corporate and environmental responsibility. In early 2009, he created the Bike In Style challenge, a partnership with The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Bike In Style asked talented FIT students to design stylish, practical and affordable bike wear for commuters. The prototypes of the winning designs were unveiled in August 2009, in conjunction with Summer Streets 2009, of which LVMH was a major sponsor. Mr. Dutreil lives in New York with his wife and children. He is an avid cyclist who routinely commutes to work on his bike.
	David Lewis David J. Lewis is a founding partner of LTL Architects, a firm which received the 2007 National Design Award for Interior Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and was selected as one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lewis is currently associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directed the Master of Architecture Program from 2002-2007. In addition to his work at LTL, David has taught at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University (Richard Trott Visiting Professor).
	Deborah Marton Ms. Marton has dedicated her career to the development of public space in New York City, with a specific focus on land reclamation, natural systems, and urban ecology. She began her association with the Design Trust in 2002, as a fellow on Thresholds of Eib's Pond Park 2, and joined as Executive Director in 2004. Previously, Ms. Marton was Program Manager of New York City Parks Natural Resources Group and later associated with the landscape architecture firm Field Operations, where she served as Project Manager for the Fresh Kills Master Plan. She received a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Design School and also holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
	Sergio Palleroni Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director of the BaSiC Initiative, is a Professor and Fellow of the new Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices at Portland State University. He has been a Professor at the University of Texas, Austin and University of Washington, where in 1995 he co-founded the BaSiC Initiative with Professor David Riley to support the service learning work they had been doing with students since the late 1980s in Mexico and Central America. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and design work for underserved communities, including the National Education Awards from the ACSA/AIA (1997), NCARB (2003 and 2006), and the National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the White House in 2005.
	Alexandros Washburn Alexandros Washburn is Director of Urban Design for the NYC government's Department of City Planning. He leads a team of urban designers in working on large-scale planning and development initiatives, as well as advising on key urban design and public open space issues citywide. Using his expertise in architecture, landscape architecture and planning, he has participated in the design of the new West Harlem waterfront park and overseen the planning, financing and approvals of Pennsylvania (now Moynihan) Station redevelopment in New York.