Stephen Glaister

Stephen Glaister is Professor of Transport and Infrastructure, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London. He was a member of the steering group for the Department of Transport’s National Road Pricing Feasibility Study constituted in autumn 2003. Between 1993 and spring 2001 he was an economic adviser to the Rail Regulator. He was a member of the UK government’s first Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment and has been Specialist Adviser to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport, as well as an adviser to the Commission for Integrated Transport.

He has published widely on transport and also on regulation in the telecommunications, water and gas industries. In 1998 he was awarded the CBE for services to public transport.

Professional Experience

*Director, Railway Technology Strategy Centre, Imperial College London, 1998 -
* Transport for London, Board member, July 2000 –
* Member, Steering Group for Road Pricing Feasibility Study, Department for Transport, 2003 – 04
* Economic Advisor and non-executive member of advisory board, the Rail Regulator, 1993 - 2001
* London Regional Transport, non-executive Board member, 1984 - 93
* Economic Advisor, Office of Gas Supply, 1996 – 2002
* Member, of independent Review of Road Charging Options for London (ROCOL)
* Economic advisor British Rail Policy Unit and InterCity strategy 1980 -1993