Surprisingly no, maybe he was too busy with Rivendell or just worked on this, but the designer is Kurt Kristiansen, LEGO Design Master commented: “Bringing the iconic Classic Land Rover Defender to brick life was no easy challenge.
I had to look him up and he does not seem to have a Bricklist on Brickset but looks like he is a SW UCS designer including 10221 SSD and R2.