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Our
Key Staff
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| Stephen
Atkins |
Projects Director |
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Steve has over 30 years experience in transport
planning and research, specialising in transport policy analysis,
formulation and implementation. His extensive experience
includes periods as an academic, a senior officer with London
Transport, Chief Officer with a major City Unitary local
authority and Assistant Director at the Strategic Rail Authority.
Combining both a research background and practical experience
of implementing strategies, Steve’s wide-ranging experience
includes award-winning research into road space re-allocation;
policy advice to Board level for London Transport and the
Strategic Rail Authority; writing and implementing integrated
policies for transport, planning, environment and economic
development in a local authority context; developing multi-agency
partnerships and representation at public meetings, hearings
and inquiries. |
John Baggaley |
Director, Public
Transport Planning |
Mike Brewer
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Mike has over 30 years' experience
in transport planning, particularly in model development
and application, traffic forecasting and economic appraisal.
He has worked on urban, regional and national studies
and on toll road studies for both bidders and lenders.
He is also an accomplished project manager and, in addition
to the UK and other European countries, has worked in
Costa Rica, Argentina, Cyprus, Hong Kong and China. |
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Technical leader, Transport Modelling |
Neill
Birch
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Neill
Birch is a Managing Consultant, with considerable
transport planning experience spanning almost 20
years. His wide-ranging background covers hands-on
experience of all principal modes of public transport,
including bus and heavy rail, in a variety of European
contexts. Since 2003 Neill has been involved
with transport consultancy projects including regional
transport strategies, bus network development, rail
franchising, integrated ticketing and a major multi-modal
transport corridor study. He is very familiar
with Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG).
For five years, Neill was part of Arriva plc's team
spear-heading the Group's successful diversification
into mainland Europe. During this time he was
involved in public transport tenders in Denmark, Sweden
and the Netherlands; network reviews in the Netherlands,
Spain and Portugal; due diligence in France and Norway;
and project management in Spain and Portugal. He
also undertook a major study of the Noordned multi-modal
operation in the north east Netherlands. More
recently he was involved in a bus network study in
Ireland. |
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Manager, Glasgow Office |
Ian
Byrne
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Ian Byrne is a Transport
Planner with over 10 years’ experience in project
managing a wide range of transportation projects. Ian
joined MVA Consultancy’s Dublin office as Manager,
from the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) where
he was head of the commercial transport modelling
section. He has particular expertise in transport
model development for local area plans, integrated
framework plans, masterplans, infrastructural projects
and large scale developments. Ian has experience
in managing high level multi-modal strategic studies
encompassing light rail, heavy rail, bus and traffic
as well as more detailed junction and traffic management
design. |
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Manager, Dublin Office |
Dave
Carter
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Dave is one of our senior
Public Transport Planners. His main disciplines are
in scheme appraisal and approvals, public transport
planning, demand forecasting and evaluation.
Dave's skills in scheme appraisal have developed
from his involvement in the preparation of Guidance
for the series of multi-modal studies undertaken
by the UK Government through producing the first
version of the Guidance on Public Transport Scheme
Appraisal to application of these frameworks in
a number of scheme appraisals. He has managed a
number of grant applications for rapid transit
schemes involving both light rail and busways,
including pioneering use of the NATA appraisal
framework and taking negotiations forward with
the Government and Treasury. His work has lead
to the successful delivery of Nottingham Express
Transit (NET) which opened in March 2004 and he
is now involved in the development of a monitoring
and evaluation programme for the scheme, which
is performing well against some of the key objectives
set during its development.
Dave has also acquired extensive experience of
multi-modal strategic transport models, through work
on a number of integrated transport studies in both
the UK and South America and the London Transportation
Studies. His skills in this area have been confirmed
by assisting research into the effects of transport
on land-use. |
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Technical Leader Policy, Planning and Economics |
John
Colgan
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John
Colgan has thirty years experience in all traffic
and highway engineering fields. His particular experience
is in junction and link design, operational appraisals
and technical audits of major road infrastructure,
network analysis, area wide traffic management, event
planning, traffic signal design, development impacts,
scheme appraisal and Project Management.
John has given expert witness advice at a series
of Public Inquiries and also to Parliamentary Bill
Committees. He is an experienced Project Director
and Manager of Multi-Disciplinary Teams both in the
UK and overseas, with experienced in the application
of UK, European, and US International Design Standards
in Road design. John also has experience of undertaking
scheme appraisals on behalf of major institutions
such as the Asian Development Bank. |
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Director, Development Planning |
David Connolly
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Dr David Connolly is an
accomplished project director and manager with 16 years’ experience
in transport planning, multi-modal modelling, scheme
appraisal and social research.
His transport modelling experience includes the development
and use of a Land-use and Transport Interaction Model
of the Edinburgh Travel to Work area and a number of
other public transport demand forecasting models.
David has extensive expertise in the appraisal of
economic and environmental benefits of transport schemes.
He
has also led a wide range of the social research
projects, including various customer satisfaction surveys
and
a
wide range of behavioural and attitudinal studies.
He is a member of the Scottish Executive’s ScotStat
Board and regularly provides Expert Witness evidence
and other high-level advice to Central Government, Local
Authorities and their advisors. In particular, he has
recently helped two of the largest Regional Transport
Partnerships in Scotland develop their Regional Transport
Strategies.
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Deputy Divisional Director, Scotland |
Tim Cuthbert
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Tim is the Deputy Regional
Director with responsibility for our work in Southern
England. He has some 17 years’ experience of
developing solutions to transport engineering and development
planning problems that ranges from large scale strategic
studies to the design of local transport schemes. He
has worked both in the UK and overseas and been involved
in all aspects of scheme development from feasibility
studies and appraisal through preliminary and detailed
design including safety audit, to the production of
contract documents and the supervision of works on
site.
Tim’s particular areas of expertise include
traffic engineering, public transport scheme design,
interchanges, accessibility analysis, development,
planning and regeneration. Through his experience,
he has also gained a solid appreciation of the legislative
background to bringing forward or improving public
transport schemes. |
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Director, Regeneration and Masterplanning |
Martin Dix
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Martin has over 25 years’ experience
in Social and Market Research, making substantial contributions
to policy and practice in a wide range of fields including
transport, accidents and safety, policing and enforcement,
leisure, environment and planning and community development.
He has considerable experience of thinking through research
problems and their practical investigation using social
research methodologies, and delivering clear reports of
findings with action recommendations. As Projects Director
for our Social and Market Research Unit he has led and
supervised numerous projects for a wide range of client
organisations in the commercial, public and voluntary sectors.
He is a Chartered Psychologist and member of a number of
professional associations. |
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Technical Leader, Social & Market
Research |
Chris du Sautoy
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With an MSc in Transport
Engineering and Operations and over 18 years experience
in transport consultancy, Chris is our Technical Team
Leader responsible for the direction and management
of interchange planning projects.
He has undertaken studies of rail/metro stations
and interchanges, airport terminals, sports arena
and public buildings, working on behalf of clients
that include Network Rail, London Underground, BAA
plc, Dutch Railways, KCRC and Foster and Partners.
He is fully conversant with the application of design
standards for static analysis and dynamic simulation
modelling to help get the most out of the space,
resources and funds available to clients. |
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Technical Leader, Interchange
Planning |
Duncan Irons
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Duncan joined our Birmingham
Office as a Projects Director and has responsibility
for development planning and regeneration in the Midlands
and the north of England.
He has managed a significant number of projects
ranging from small development studies for private
companies to large strategic transport planning studies
for government bodies and has significant experience
in financial management of projects and the management
of project teams. He also has significant experience
of working with multi discipline teams which include
other professions such as architects and town planners. |
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Projects Director |
Paul
McCartney
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Paul McCartney is an
experienced Project Director and Manager with wide
ranging experience and knowledge in economic appraisal
of transport schemes, option appraisal and evaluation,
cost benefit analysis, demand forecasting and economic
impact assessments.
Paul has over 15 years experience working as a professional
economist, both in the public and private sectors.
He worked for the Scottish Government up to 2005 where
he was responsible for providing economic advice on
the development of transport policy, particularly the
economic viability and value for money of major transport
projects in Scotland. He therefore has a strong awareness
of the context of transport policy in Scotland with
a detailed understanding of Scotland’s economy
and the impact of transport policy on economic performance.
Paul was also adviser to the Scottish Government on
the concepts and role of appraisal within transport
policy with a particular focus on the application of
Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG), of which
Paul is a co-author of the original guidance document.
Since moving to the private sector
in 2005 Paul has directed or managed a large number
of projects for key clients, including the Scottish
Government, Transport Scotland, Scottish Enterprise,
Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Edinburgh City
Council and Glasgow City Council. The commissions have
ranged from option appraisals of capital projects to
evaluations of national policies and strategies. |
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Director, Transport
Economics |
Colin
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Colin
McKay specialises in advising major clients on a wide
variety of transport issues for developments across
the UK. He provides advice and supervises work
on Transport Assessments and acts in negotiations on
legal agreements with highway and planning authorities. Colin
has worked mainly in private consultancy and also for
a local authority. A Chartered Civil Engineer
experienced in the planning, design and construction
of major highway projects, he has practical knowledge
of the planning system and highways procedures. |
McKay |
Director, Development
Planning |
Jeremy Meal
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Jeremy has a breadth of
UK and overseas experience due to his involvement with
smart cards, fares and ticketing systems, concessionary
fares, transport management information systems and
public transport planning.
Jeremy is currently Director of a number of cutting-edge
smart card implementation advice projects in the
UK, notably for Translink (Northern Ireland) and
NoWcard (Cumbria/Lancashire County Councils and partners),
the latter funded by the Department for Transport
in view of their interest in implementing the ITSO
Specification for public transport ticketing smart
cards. He is also working jointly with PA Consulting
to implement the RouteMap for interoperability between
Oyster and ITSO on behalf of DfT/ATOC/TfL. In early
2004, Jeremy was also invited to review the Yorcard
proposals for Metro and SYPTE, having been involved
with the original LTP Annex E submission for major
scheme funding and this advice is ongoing. |
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Director, Smart Card and Ticketing
Strategies |
Reza Mohammadi
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Dr Reza Mohammadi is a
transport planner with considerable experience in many
aspects of transportation planning, and has contributed
to a wide variety of transport projects in UK, eastern
Europe and Asia.
Reza is currently Project Manager for a major mass-transit
study evaluating alternative alignment options serving
major corridors in Dubai. He is also Project Manager
for a workplace parking levy study in Nottingham.
He has managed a number of studies including a major
infrastructure planning and engineering study to
identify an alignment for a 20km north-south Expressway
in Singapore, and studies to develop and evaluate
short and medium term road pricing strategies in
Singapore. Reza has extensive experience in highway
infrastructure modelling, and has used various transport
planning software to develop and examine alternative
schemes for improving urban road network performance.
He has considerable experience on privately financed
schemes, and has provided significant input on the
A55 and A13 DBFO schemes in UK, M5 Motorway in Hungary,
and the Romanian Motorway Concession project. |
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Manager, Dubai Office |
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John
Baggaley has been involved in the planning and implementation
of major multi-modal urban transport systems in the
UK and overseas for over 25 years, working for both
operators and co-ordinating authorities. He has had
practical experience of the implementation and subsequent
operation of such systems in both the UK and Asian
contexts. This experience has given him a clear appreciation
of the issues that are critical to the success (financial
and otherwise) of such systems and inter-dependencies
between the component modes and operators.
He is an experienced interpreter of
transport model results, for both forecasting and
appraisal, ranging from single mode models (West
Yorkshire rail network) through large public transport
models (Singapore bus and rail network) to full multi-modal
models (Transport Model for Scotland). As a result
of this long experience of model use, John has a
particular skill in the interpretation of the model
outputs for a non-technical audience.
In recent years John has played
a significant role in the development of the UK
rail network, through advice to bidders for rail
franchises and the promotion of infrastructure
investment in Scotland. |
Nick Newton
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Nick
headed the £3.2billion, 500-strong Strategic
Rail Authority (SRA). With 35 years’ experience
as a major player in the transport sector with a pre-eminent
reputation, having enjoyed considerable industry-wide
respect by accepting challenge and embracing change.
He has a consistent history of leading policy development
and implementation in complex commercial fields, drawing
on widely-recognised strategic and organisational management
strengths. A master at developing strategic relationships
to optimum effect, with an exceptional ability to achieve
the most from people - motivating staff at all levels,
despite statutory mass displacement; dealing with senior
executives and government ministers; negotiating astutely
commercial terms with private sector contractors; and
successfully liaising with diverse stakeholders.
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Director,
Rail Strategy and Development |
Pierre
Odent
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Pierre
is MVA Consultancy's regional manager for France.
He has a wide ranging portfolio of projects, ranging
from the definition of regional transportation Master
Plans, cost benefit evaluation of transportation projects,
the development of national, regional and urban multimodal
models and the evaluation of the impact of transportation
policy on air quality. |
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Regional Manager,
France |
Neil
Raha
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Neil
Raha is a mathematician who specialises in transport
modelling. He has also successfully managed a number
of projects at European, national and local level covering
a broad range of transport issues. These include studies
involving multinational consortia of consultants providing
advice on topics such as the future provision and use
of transport models in Europe to the European Commission
and the future of freight modelling in Britain to the
UK Government. Neil is currently the Project Manager
of the London Transportation Studies (LTS) project.
He is managing the ongoing development of the new 2001
based version of the LTS model, incorporating both
new data and considerable software enhancements. |
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Projects Director |
Stuart
Reid
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Stuart
Reid has achieved considerable prominence in the
field of sustainable transport, with particular emphasis
on walking and cycling. He has contributed
to the development of national policy and key guidance
for planning, process and design and has worked on
behalf of central and local Government clients including
the Department for Transport, Department for Communities
and Local Government, Highways Agency, Countryside
Agency and Transport for London as well as numerous
local authorities. |
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Director, Sustainable
Transport and Communities |
Costi
Rentzos
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Costi
Rentzos is a Chartered Transport and Town Planner
with wide ranging experience in transport planning
and traffic engineering. During his career he has
managed and directed studies in the fields of masterplanning,
public transit priority, traffic management, and
urban regeneration. Costi has provided expert
advice on accessibility issues and transport assessments
for major housing and stadium developments within
Greater London including for the new Wembley regeneration
area and Twickenham rugby stadium. He has particular
expertise in the delivery of traffic management and
bus priority studies, which he undertook for a number
of London Boroughs; he has in depth knowledge of
the application of microsimulation techniques in
London and the south east, and provided software
guidance, audit and project advice to Transport for
London.
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Deputy Divisional
Director, London and National |
John Segal
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An expert in multi-modal
and single mode demand forecasting. He has demonstrated
this in rail franchise bids, strategic, high speed rail
and airport access studies. He was the first editor of
Britain’s Railways’ Passenger Demand Forecasting
Handbook and has maintained an on-going involvement,
recently reviewing fares elasticities in London. John
is also an expert in rail commercial strategy and fares
policies, including the application of yield management
techniques. |
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Director, Rail |
Mike Slinn
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After graduating from
Cambridge University, Mike started working for Scott
Wilson on a variety of civil and structural engineering.
On becoming Chartered, he spent a year in the USA obtaining
a Master’s degree and then returned to the UK
to work primarily in highways and transportation. He
worked in Hong Kong as Project Engineer for the Tuen
Mun Road and then had a two-year spell in Poland as
Resident Engineer and a five-year period looking after
engineering and transportation software and information
systems.
He joined MVA in 1990 and now has a national responsibility
for traffic engineering work within MVA. His experience
includes road safety engineering, traffic management
and highway design, regeneration and development
planning in the UK and Ireland. He is co-author of “Traffic
Engineering Design: Principles and Practice” and
has presented and lectured widely on bus priority,
road safety engineering, park and ride, freight,
transport assessment, travel planning and accessibility
planning issues. |
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Director, Transport Consultancy |
John Sutton
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Dr Sutton has more than 25
years of experience in transport planning, transport
information systems, geospatial technologies, and data
management. He leads the business development and marketing
of MVA's Transport Information Systems products and services.
He also provides strategic advice and direction to TIS
projects. He has a wide range of knowledge and experience
in transport information technologies including Geographic
Information Systems and Intelligent Transport Systems
deployed in public transport, traffic monitoring and
incident management, journey planning and environmental
systems. |
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Director, Transport Information
Systems |
James Vickers
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James
Vickers is a highly articulate, enthusiastic and
dedicated senior manager and negotiator with experience
in the franchised rail industry since 1995. His compelling
negotiation skills have been proven in the successful
completion of complex franchise deals and his strong
project and change management capabilities have been
brought to bear in industry and organisation re-structurings.
As our Director Rail Business Planning, he is assisting
clients with franchise and project business case
development and evaluation, and with strategy and
change management to ensure business opportunities
are fully realised.
He worked closely with Southeastern to enable the
train operator to optimise the business opportunity
and maximise the revenue potential of their new Integrated
Kent Franchise. Through a combination of market research,
analysis and modelling he provided the client with
a critique of their current market and worked with
them to develop initiatives to grow their future
market, including the impact of the high speed services
between Kent and London starting in 2009. James also
led our support to EuRailCo, a joint venture between
Transdev plc and RATP, in their bid to acquire Laing
Rail, working with senior executives, legal and financial
advisors to determine a risk-based valuation of each
of the three businesses. He advised the client as
to the market potential of each business, supported
due diligence and advised on the development of the
financial framework to support the potential acquisition.
Having commissioned a major study into transport
throughout the country, the Surface Transport Master
Plan (STMP), the Department of Transport (DOT) in
Abu Dhabi will need a capable and functioning DOT
and Public Transport Office (PTO) to deliver an integrated
transport solution. James is assisting DOT in creating
the organizational and policy capability to meet
the challenge. He is leading an experienced team
which includes ex-Strategic Rail Authority CEO Nick
Newton to identify the organizational capabilities
and resources required, define the organizational
processes, procedures and supporting system required
to enable the defined capabilities to be delivered
to a high standard and fast track the development
of policies and regulations to assist in the implementation
of the STMP outputs.
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Director, Rail Business Planning |
Gera
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Dr
Gerard Whelan is MVA Consultancy's National Modelling
Leader. His
background in economics and transport planning is
the root of his expertise in modelling the demand
for transport systems. His work covers road,
rail and air sectors with a focus on competition
and traveller choice. A common theme running
through his research is a level of expertise in market
research and advanced discrete choice modelling which
have been applied to a diverse range of applications
to model demand, predict market share and value product
attributes. Gerard has a wealth of experience
in modelling vehicle ownership, type and use gathered
across a number of research council and Department
for Transport sponsored projects. He developed
the Department’s national car ownership model
and played leading roles in developing the vehicle
purchasing and scrappage elements of the Vehicle
Market Model. He has significant experience
in modelling the demand for rail travel using both
discrete and continuous econometric methods, and
has contributed to the sector’s Passenger Demand
Forecasting Handbook on issues relating to competition
between operators and products. His expertise
in stated preference survey design and discrete choice
modelling has led him to new fields of application,
such as attitudes to automatic speed limiters, route
and departure time choice and providing advice to
the Department for Transport on the UK value of time. Before
joining MVA Consultancy, Gerard was a Senior Lecturer
in Transport Economics and Transport Policy at the
Institute for Transport Studies at the University
of Leeds where he was leader of the Economics and
Behavioural Modelling Research Group and presented
postgraduate courses across Europe on transport modelling,
transport econometrics, and public transport planning
and management.
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Whelan |
Projects Director |
David Whittle
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David Whittle is an experienced
project director and manager of studies in transport
planning and engineering, private finance initiatives,
strategic planning and intelligent transport systems
in the UK and overseas. He is experienced in scheme evaluation
and policy development. He has been a witness at Public
Inquiries in transport planning, scheme appraisals and
economics and traffic engineering. |
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Manager, Birmingham Office |
John Wicks
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John is a Chartered Psychologist
and Chartered Marketer, who has a 35-year record of achievement
in the fields of social and market research. He has applied
his expertise to many fields, including transport, crime
and policing, planning, housing, health, social services,
water, sport, leisure, tourism, education, training,
employee research, customer satisfaction and public consultation.
He leads research throughout MVA Consultancy. |
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Director, Social and Market Research |
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