Tony Ridley

Tony Ridley is a civil engineer who worked for the Greater London Council in its early years. He has held Managing Director/Chairman/Board Member roles with the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive, Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation, London Transport, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway and Eurotunnel. He was the Professor (now Emeritus Professor) of Transport Engineering at Imperial College London 1991-99, during which time he was the Director of the University of London Centre for Transport Studies (ULCTS). He was Head of the Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering 1997-99.

His higher education was at the University of Newcastle, Northwestern University, University of California (Berkeley) and Stanford University. He was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 1995-96 and International President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) 1999-2001. He is President of the Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC), a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), and President of the Association for Project Management (APM).