Business Breakfast with David Quarmby CBE, Chairman, RAC Foundation

Bircham Dyson Bell are hosting a business breakfast with David Quarmby CBE, Chairman of the RAC Foundation, an authoritative transport and road user think tank, where advocacy and policy is heavily evidence-based.  David will be exploring the relationship between cars and public transport in the 21st century and the factors affecting their use, the requirement for a level playing field in relation to funding and what the options could be for local or national road charging schemes.

David is recognised as one of the UK's leading transport professionals, with a varied career across the industry and in government.

Putting into practice his earlier PhD work on modal choice and the value of time, he spent 4 years with the Ministry of Transport and 14 years with London Transport, of which the last six were MD of London Buses. Four years as Sainsbury’s Logistics Director was followed by eight years as Joint MD of Sainsbury's and as director or chairman of its subsidiaries Homebase, Savacentre and Shaws in New England.  David has also been Chairman of Docklands Light Railway Ltd, Chairman of the British Tourist Authority, a member of the TfL Board and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority.

David combines his work as a consultant with Colin Buchanan with being a Director of Abellio (formerly NedRailways), and chairman of the Transport Research Institute at Edinburgh Napier University.  He has just been appointed by the Secretary of State for Transport to lead a review of the resilience of England’s transport systems to severe winter weather.

Registration for the breakfast will commence at 8.00 am, the meeting at 8.30 am and the proceedings will finish no later than 9.30 am, being held at our offices at 50 Broadway, London SW1H 0BL (opposite St James's Park Underground Station).  The session will be strictly held under the Chatham House rule.