Jacqui joined the Department for Transport in November 2003 as head of Sustainable Travel Initiatives.

She launched the National Business Travel Network in February 2007, which is now part of the Government's ACT on CO2 campaign; has been overseeing the Sustainable Travel Towns initiative which is due to be completed in 2009; and was project manager for the 'Travelling to School' initiative. She also set up the sustainable transport policy group for the British Irish Council which is aimed at promoting sustainable travel across the British Isles.

Before joining the DfT, she worked in the Highways Agency (HA) managing major innovation programmes including devising and implementing the HA’s ‘Influencing Travel Behaviour’ project and managed the research resulting in establishment of the Traffic Officer Service on the motorway network.

Jacqui has a doctorate from the University of London where she researched the role of networks and interactions in the management of transport policy.

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