Léan has over 17 years experience working in the IT industry, from product management to business consulting. She started her career working as a product manager in a small Dublin start up which grew from 19 people to 800 and completed an IPO on NASDAQ in her five years there. In 2002, she completed a Masters degree in urban policy and design at the London School of Economics. Since then, her work has concentrated on the application of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in urban developments and the wider role of ICT in enabling sustainability.
She has been leading Arup’s consulting work in Smart Cities looking at how ICT can better enable the operation of cities while also enabling better cities and more sustainable citizen behaviour. Recent project work has been in developing ICT strategies for new urban developments and cities in the UK, Finland, China and Qatar.
Project experience includes:
City of Melbourne, Australia
Dongtan Eco City, China
E-Campus Sheffield, UK
Ebbsfleet, UK
EMDA Broadband Campaign, UK
Hanham Hall, Bristol, UK
Low2No Helsinki, Finland
Msheireb Heart of Doha, Qatar
Wanzhuang, China
