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Professor Arthur Kay is an advisor to organisations making cities better places to live. This includes serving as a Board Member for Transport for London (TfL), the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fast Forward 2030, and the Museum of the Home.
He is a Professor of Practice at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity. And author of Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars (Wiley, 2025), a ‘Financial Times Best Books of the Year’, with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore.
Arthur Kay founded, built and exited several start-ups: the clean technology company, Bio-bean (acquired 2023); the development, and technology company, Skyroom (acquired 2024); and the £100m Key Worker Homes Fund.
Arthur Kay’s work making cities better places to live has been recognised by The Guardian as ‘Sustainable Business Leader of the Year’, MIT Technology Review as a ‘35-under-35’, and the United Nations as a ‘Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer’
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