Speaker profile
Dr Alan James
Dr Alan James leads Expert Alliance (www.expall.com), at the cutting edge of Transport & Infrastructure for the past 20 years. He also serves as the Institute of Directors Yorkshire and North East Regional Ambassador for Transport and Infrastructure. He has unique-in-world expertise across all major modes of fast ground transport, having served in leadership roles:
• in 300 km/h High Speed Rail – Project Director: HS2 the Stoke Route
• in 500 km/h Maglev – CEO: UK Ultraspeed for Siemens/ThyssenKrupp
• in 1,000 km/h Hyperloop – Vice President: Virgin Hyperloop One
Alan is a thought leader in GreenTech, Electric Vehicles and Modern Mobility. His work focusses on how cities, regions and countries can gain strategic economic advantage though ‘Innovation-In-Infrastructure’ and by setting the agenda on how the multiple, fast-evolving and rapidly-converging technologies and systems redefining mobility are deployed.
Alan lives north of Hadrians Wall in rural Northumberland. His blog “How to Electrify Your Life, Save Loads of Money and Save the Planet Too” (electrifylife.co.uk) publishes real world data from his domestic investment in GreenTech, to provide factual advice on how to go ‘all-electric’ on a household level, both to slash carbon emissions and to save hard cash.