New DfT Chief Analyst Mulheirn to co-chair revised JADP with van Vuren

The DfT’s Joint Analysis Development Panel (JADP) is now to be co-chaired by the department’s new Chief Analyst Ian Mulheirn, and consultant modelling expert Tom van Vuren, Strategic Consulting Partner, Amey and Visiting Professor, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds.

Mulheirn was Commissioner on the Centre of Government at the Institute for Government (IFG) and an Associate at the Resolution Foundation. 

He was previously Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change between February 2019 and December 2022.

He has taken over from Amanda Rowlatt who has retired while van Vuren replaces Professor Peter Jones who has taken on a new advisory role at the DfT.

JADP brings together academic and professional experts with senior departmental analysts. The full academic membership of the reconstituted panel is:

• Aruna Sivakumar Reader and Director of the Urban Systems Lab, Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling, Imperial College London

• Charlene Rohr, Technical Principal, Mott MacDonald

• Dan Graham, Professor of Statistical Modelling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College

• Helen Bowkett, Senior Technical Director, Arcadis and Visiting Professor, University of the West of England

• John Bates, Independent Consultant in Transport Economics

• John Siraut, Senior Director of Economics, Jacobs

• Luis Willumsen, Managing Partner, Nommon Solutions and Technologies

• Phil Goodwin, Emeritus Professor of Transport Policy, University College London and University of the West of England

• Richard Batley, Professor of Transport Demand and Valuation, Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds

• Tim Leunig, Director of Economics, Public First Consulting, Chief Economist Onward think tank, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) School of Public Policy

• Tom Worsley, Visiting Fellow, ITS Leeds

The panel is supported by a broader network of subject matter experts who are invited to attend meetings on specific issues.

A  Shadow Joint Analysis Development Panel (SJADP) has also just been established. It fulfils the same criteria and role as JADP but  comprises  more junior professionals who are earlier on in their careers, with the idea of injecting fresh innovative thinking from a diverse background.

The Shadow JADP membership is:

• Angela Lopez Garces, Associate Director, Transport Planning, Jacobs

• Chiara Calastri, Lecturer in Rail Economics, ITS, University of Leeds

• David Bowers, National Discipline Director – Transport Planning, Stantec

• Ed Manley, Professor of Urban Analytics, University of Leeds

• Emma Anforth, Associate Director, SYSTRA

• Pawel Kucharski, Senior Associate Director, Jacobs

• Pedro Abrantes, Grant Thornton

• Philippe Perret, Mobility Insights Technical Manager, BT Active Intelligence

• Steven Bond-Smith, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO)

• Tali Diamant, Technical Director, Economics and Business Case, AtkinsRéalis

• Manuel Ojeda-Cabral, Associate Professor, ITS, University of Leeds

• Claire Cheriyan, Strategic Analysis Manager, Transport for London

• Dilum Dissanayake, Associate Professor in Human Geography and Transportation Planning, University of Birmingham.

The JADP was established in 2015 to provide expert advice to the Department on its modelling and appraisal methods and strategies.

JADP annual reports have been published since its inception though the latest covered the period from 2020 to 2022, with nothing since.

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