Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería

Academia Pan-Americana de Engenharia

Pan American Academy of Engineering

 

 

TONY M. RIDLEY

 

 

Civil Engineer, University of Newcastle and Northwestern University.  Doctorate in Transportation Engineering, University of California.  Senior Executive Program at Stanford Business School,  1980. He holds Honorary Doctorates at the University of Newcastle and Napier University.

 

He joined the Board of Eurotunnel as a non-Executive Member in 1987.  He was Managing Director of the Project for two years.  Immediately prior to that he was eight years on the Board of London Transport and was Chairman and Chief Executive of London Underground Ltd. He was involved with the Docklands Light Railway from the outset, latterly as Chairman. He was the first Managing Director of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation 1975-1980 and was the first Director General of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive 1969-1975.

 

Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering in the Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College.  Has been the Director of the University of London Centre for Transport Studies (ULCTS).  Head of the Dept of Civil and Environmental  Engineering 1997-99.

 

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of both the Institution of Civil Engineers (of which he was President 1995-96) and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (of which he was Chairman for several years of the Transport Policy Committee). He was International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport 1999-2001 and became President of the Commonwealth Engineers Council in March 2000. He is a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations. He has been Chairman of the Board for the Engineering Profession of the Senate of the Engineering Council.  He is a former President of the Light Rail Transit Association and of the Association for Project Management.  He is a Director of the Major Projects Association. He has been active in the International Union of Public Transport and is now an Honorary Member. 

 

In 1988 he was the first recipient of the Highways Award of the Institution of Highways and Transportation and in 2000 the first recipient of the Herbert Crow Award of the Worshipful Company of Carmen.  In 2002 he received the President’s Award of the Engineering Council. He is a former member of the Construction Industry Council.  He is a Trustee, and a member of the Public Policy Committee, of the RAC Foundation for Motoring.

 

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