Ian Mulcahey is the firmwide leader of Gensler’s Planning & Urban Design practice area. He has 20 years experience in the design and implementation of complicated projects at a range of scales in the UK and overseas. He has a deep understanding of the competing political, commercial and social forces that influence plans. He will direct the planning team, utilising creative strategies for the reconciliation of these forces during the consultation, design development, approval and delivery process to realise distinct, sustainable and successful proposals. He leads a multidisciplinary team of planners, architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who undertake a full range of national and international planning and urban design work to produce feasibility studies through to the planning and implementation of major strategic master plans.