Staff Profile
Dr George Hazel, BSc MSc PhD FCIHT MICE FCILT OBE
Consultant - E-mail
Dr Hazel is the former Chairman of MRC McLean Hazel and now works as an advisor. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane and Chair of the Advisory Group for the Transport Research Institute at Edinburgh Napier University. He was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 2005 for services to transport and has acted as advisor to various governments and agencies and local authorities including the Lorry Road User Charging Advisory Group, Transport 2000’s Policy Council and the Commission for Integrated Transport. He was also a member of the UK Secretary of State’s Steering Group on National Road User Charging and was President of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT). He was Chair of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) in 2005 and 2006. He has currently advised the Northern Ireland Department of Regional Development on their Strategic Plan, Siemens on their Urban Sustainable Centre in London , the EU on their European Bus System of the Future and Evergreen Toronto on their future mobility strategy for sustanable cities. He has recently completed city audit studies for Calgary and Edmonton for Siemens.
Dr Hazel is an expert in city and mobility analysis, policy advice and development and in innovative funding and delivery mechanisms. He has extensive experience of how towns and cities work having written a book in 2004 on “Making Cities Work” and led the team which produced the Megacities Challenges report for Siemens which was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2006. He has also acted as advisor to a number of towns and cities in the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.
