Mobility

Lara Natale* is CERRE’s Director for Tech, Media, Telecom and Mobility. She leads the think tank’s research and activities related to these sectors.

Most recently, Lara co-led the Tech, Media, Telecoms practice at FTI Consulting in Brussels, providing strategic EU public policy and regulatory counsel to global businesses.

Prior to that, Lara was attachée at the (then-named) UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, negotiating digital, culture, skills and other legislation. She also led the Brussels secretariat of a migrants’ rights NGO network, worked in two Westminster-based think tanks on UK social policies and in UK management consulting, and spent time teaching English in several countries, including Japan.

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Claire-Marie Healy* is Senior Project Manager at CERRE, leading, planning and overseeing the delivery of our research projects in the Tech, Media, Telecom and Mobility sectors. Before joining CERRE, she worked for GSMA, the industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide, where she held various positions including EU Public Policy Manager following regulations on mobile telecommunication in Brussels, and Project Manager for Mobile Connect, the online authentication and identification service provided by mobile operators globally.

Earlier in her career, Claire-Marie worked at the OECD in Paris, following ICT policies for the Business and Industry Advisory Committee. She also interned at the GSMA Development Fund in India and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia.

Claire-Marie received her MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), after completing her studies in International Relations with German at the Kent University and the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB). She is a French native speaker with excellent language skills in English, German and Spanish.

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Konrad joined CERRE in November 2020 as an intern, supporting the Tech, Media, Telecoms and Mobility teams. He is now Project Officer, Tech, Media, Telecom & Mobility.

Konrad gained experience in the private as well as the non-profit sector before joining CERRE. He was a training coordinator associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd and interned for the human rights education team at Amnesty International Hungary. He pursued internships at IGSD, a Washington-based research organization dedicated to sustainable development, and at WWF, the international non-profit working for wildlife conservation.

Konrad holds a Bachelor Degree in international relations from Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) and a Master’s in Public Administration at Leiden University (the Netherlands).

Yves Crozet is a researcher associated with CERRE and is emeritus professor at Sciences Po in Lyon.

An economist specialising in the transport economy, he is a member of the Laboratory of Urban Planning, Transport, Economics (LAET) at Lyon University, where he was director from 1997 to 2007.

From 2010 to 2015, he was Secretary General of the World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR).

Since 2009, he has been President of the think tank French Road Union (URF). He is also a member of the quality control committee for the transport services of Ile-de-France and is a member of the CITEPA administrative council and the Conseil National Routier (CNR).

In 2016, he published a book in Editions Economica titled “Hyper-mobility and public policy: a new era?”

Georgina Santos is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography and Planning of Cardiff University.

An economist, she is interested in environmental and transport economics and public policy. She has conducted research on environmental taxes for air and road transport and on delays at airports and traffic congestion on roads, and more recently, on shared mobility.

Georgina Santos holds a first degree in Economics from Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University College London and a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.

Andrew is Professor of Transport Performance and Economics at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. He leads the Institute’s Rail Research Group. His research is focused on: infrastructure access pricing and marginal cost research; rail regulation and the impact of rail reforms on economic efficiency; cost and efficiency modelling; and modelling the economic impact of rail technology innovations. He has published important work in these areas and has led or is leading a wide range of research projects.

He is also academic advisor to water regulator Ofwat on econometric benchmarking, a member of the advisory board of the Italian Transport Regulation Authority, and an Editor of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.

Andrew has a visiting research position at the Centre for Transport Studies (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and VTI) in Stockholm and at the University of Masaryk, Czech Republic. He teaches at undergraduate level on Advanced Microeconomics and Public Enterprise and Regulation and teaches / or has taught at Masters level on Economics of Transport Regulation and Public Transport Planning and Management.

Chris Nash is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Research Professor at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) of the University of Leeds.

He was previously Director of the ITS for seven years.

He has coordinated and contributed to a wide range of EU research projects, including the SUSTRAIL project.

He has advised many organisations, including the EC’s High Level Group on Infrastructure Charging, the OECD, and the Transport and European Union Select Committees of the British Parliament.