inputs from the global project management community. He is currently helping to lead Arup's team on Europe's biggest project High Speed 2. Sporting career Hockey career Leslie-Carter played 1st Grade club hockey from 1989 to 2000. Having represented Oxfordshire County at schoolboy level, his hockey career developed at Bristol University, where he played in the University 1st XI side that won the National University (UAU) Championships in 1991. From 1992 to 1996, Leslie-Carter played in Newcastle for Gateshead Hockey Club (formerly Swalwell Hockey Club). He was top scorer for the club in the 94/95 (19 goals) and 95/96 (24 goals) seasons. His goals, mainly from short corner strikes, helped Swalwell to promotion to the Northern Premier League in 1996, and back-to-back Northumberland Cup wins. Leslie-Carter played in many UK hockey tournaments with North East touring side 'The Pallatics', winning three tournament titles at the Glaxo Hockey Festival in 1997, 1998 and 2000. In his final appearance for 'The Pallatics', he scored 11 goals in a match at the Portsmouth Islanders Tournament in 2000. He also played full county level for Northumberland in the 1994 and 1995 National County Championships. From 1996 he played three seasons in the 1st XI for Hampstead and Westminster Hockey Club. Throughout his time at H&W, he played in a central sweeper role. In his first 1996/97 season, under player coach and Great Britain international Rob Thompson, H&W won the Southern Premier League undefeated, and were promoted to the English National League after winning the playoff tournament at the National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes. In the 1997/98 season, H&W finished fifth in National League Division 1 – its best place to date – with Leslie-Carter at the centre of a defence with the best record in the league. During his time with Hampstead and Westminster, Leslie-Carter played in international hockey tournaments in the Netherlands, Germany and around the UK. Other Sports Leslie-Carter ran the Great North Run in 1994 and 1995, the London Marathon in 1996, the Sydney Half Marathon in 2006 and 2009, and has run Sydney's City to Surf run every year since 2003. In 2005 he gained his Bronze Medallion to become a qualified Surf Lifesaver at Bronte Beach Surf Club in Sydney. Selected Projects Rob Leslie-Carter's major projects include: Completed Laban School of Dance & Visual Arts, London Beijing National Aquatics Centre (The Water Cube) New Acton Nishi Development Croydon Five