Ludo Campbell-Reid

Ludo Campbell-Reid is an urban designer and a former competitive rower. He is most well known for being Auckland City's first "urban design champion."

Early life Campbell-Reid was born to an English father and a South African mother in Hampton Court, southwest London, in 1968. He graduated from the University of Westminster in London with a BA with Honours in urban planning studies, then completed a MA and Diploma in urban design at Oxford Brookes University.

Rowing Campbell-Reid represented Great Britain at the 1986 World Rowing Junior Championships in Račice, Czechoslovakia.

Campbell-Reid moved to Auckland in 2005,

Notable Auckland projects In 2012, he and his team delivered the council's first City Centre Masterplan in 2012. In his role, Campbell-Reid says his focus was to put "people first" with the creation of shared spaces in the city, including the redevelopment of Wynyard and Britomart, the 2015 redevelopment of Fort Street,

In 2018, he was the architect of Auckland Council's "Access for Everyone" plan, from which the council's planning committee unanimously supported a trial to pedestrianize parts of the central city. Some of his projects attracted controversy, including criticism from mayoral candidate John Tamihere in 2019.