Speakers

Ruth Lin Wong Holmes BEng MA MAUD MSc MRICS RSA FLI has over 20 years’ experience as a Chartered Landscape Architect working for the public, private and voluntary sectors. She currently works for London Legacy Development Corporation, which has responsibility of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and developing neighbourhoods. For over 11 years she worked for The Royal Parks caring for over 5,000 acres of historic parkland in London.  At Groundwork West London, she worked on co-design with communities to retrofit play, green infrastructure and public realm improvements focusing on housing estates in Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing. She spent 3 years as Chair of the London Parks and Gardens Trust, is now the Vice Chair for the Royal Parks Guild Committee, Trustee with Bumblebee Conservation Trust and on the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association and the World Urban Parks Healthy Parks Healthy Cities Committees. To support the Landscape profession she volunteers as a Landscape Institute examiner, supervisor, judge and mentor. Also with a keen interest in heritage, ecology, parks and horticulture she judges each year for Green Flag, Green Heritage and London in Bloom.