Who's who - CambridgeshireTransport Commission
Sir Brian Briscoe
Sir Brian Briscoe is a widely experienced public sector consultant and Board member working with Central and Local Government (CLG). He has chaired the CLG Task Group on Gypsies and Travellers and the Reading Independent Transport Commission. He is a Board member of Visit England and LandData and a member of the Capability Review team for the Department for Transport.
Until June 2006 he was Chief Executive of the Local Government Association. Appointed in 1996 he led the merger of the three former Associations to create the LGA, the single voice of local government in England and Wales. He worked closely with Ministers, civil servants and local authorities to promote the cause of local government.
From 1990 to 1996 he was Chief Executive of Hertfordshire County Council, and before that (1988-1990) was County Planning Officer of Kent. His earlier career as a planner included periods in Hertfordshire, West Yorkshire, Herefordshire and Derbyshire.
Born and educated in Newcastle upon Tyne, he read geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and is a chartered town planner and chartered surveyor. He is married with three sons. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2002.
Professor Tony Travers
Professor Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics. His key research interests include local and regional government and public service reform. He is currently an advisor to the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee and the Communities and Local Government Select Committee. He is a board member of the Centre for Cities. He is an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy. He was a Senior Associate of the Kings Fund from 1999 to 2004, and also a member of the Arts Council's Touring Panel during the late 1990s. From 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the Audit Commission.
He has published a number of books on cities and government, including Failure in British Government, The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing, How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City (published in spring 2004).
He also broadcasts and writes for the national press.