
Our team
Our Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and policy forum are dotted across Scotland, England, and even Norway!
Our Team

Colin Howden
Director
Colin has managed Transform Scotland since 1998. He has extensive experience in campaigns, public affairs and political relations, is a regular contributor to the Scottish media and has published widely on all aspects of sustainable transport policy and practice. As the Director of Transform Scotland, Colin has overseen the design and publication of numerous campaign reports and publications for diverse audiences, from members of the public to senior business leaders and politicians. He is particularly adept at communicating complex technical information in an easy to understand way. He has in-depth knowledge of transport policy, operations and politics in Scotland, having worked with transport companies and senior stakeholders for over fifteen years. Colin was also Board member and Treasurer of the European Federation for Transport and Environment from 2009 to 2012.

Ros Browning
Business Coordinator
Ros is skilled in coordinating a bit of anything and everything for Transform Scotland! Based in Moray, she works remotely to support the staff team with their roles and manage our volunteers, as well as leading on some HR duties, events coordination, and office management. Graduating from the University of Dundee in 2002 with a degree in Zoology, her working career is diverse, combining extensive experience in project management with strong communication skills and a passion for community initiatives. She has worked for a range of enviromental and health/disability organisations including Friends of the Earth Scotland, The Ecology Centre, Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Care for Carers. Ros loves nothing more than taking her dogs out for a long walk in nature or accompanying them on a bus or train journey!

Laura Hyde-White
Public Affairs Manager
Laura leads on policy, public affairs and communications at Transform. She manages campaigns and briefings, develops content for digital channels, and leads on the organisation of the Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Sustainable Transport. Laura has a background in natural science, with a Physics BSc from KCL and MSc in Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh. She is passionate about communicating how science intersects with environmental and social concerns and the role of sustainable transport in tackling inequalities. In her spare time, Laura can be found painting, hiking – or pursuing a combination of the two!

Emma Margrett
Fundraising Advisor
Emma has worked and volunteered for Transform Scotland since 2013, initially as Development Officer, then Board Member and is currently Head of Fundraising. Emma’s main role is to research, review, write and submit funding applications to support Transform’s core aims. Emma’s background isn’t sustainable transport related but financial, environmental and development. Emma represented Transform on the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund grants panel for three years and was previously on the Boards of Comrie Development Trust and New Caledonian Woodlands. She does not drive (due to emissions plus being a total liability) so her bike is the main form of transport. Emma also likes table tennis and was a founding member of the Transform table tennis club.

Susan Jeynes
Walking Campaign Project Manager
Susan has a background in community engagement and behaviour change, specialising in climate change. For the past ten years, she has worked in sustainable transport, in the fields of both active travel and car clubs. This has included being Car Club Programme Manager (Scotland) for CoMoUK, where she supported councils and community groups across the country to set up and run car clubs. She also trained planners on how to design shared transport schemes into new developments. Susan is passionate about helping communities to work together to reduce their environmental impact. She was a founding member of two local environmental charities, Sustainable Cupar and Greener Kirkcaldy.

Stacey O'Flaherty
Bus Priority Project Manager
Stacey is one of our Project Managers who loves to be involved in many projects! Stacey works and volunteers for a number of organisations ranging from Transport to Dance which she did once manage to combine the two. Her background is project management in finance but has moved more into sustainable transport since her love of buses found her delivering a bus programme to schools across Scotland. In her spare time she campaigns for better transport in her local area, specifically buses!

Niamh Kinahan
Bus Priority Community Event Coordinator
Niamh is our new Community Events Coordinator, working on the Life in the Bus Lane Project to organise and manage community engagement events across Scotland. They carry out all event administration and scheduling, and assist with managing staff and recruiting volunteers. Niamh also does lots of hands-on event delivery, engaging with the public to chat all things bus. Niamh has been working in events since 2018, as a Duty Manager and Coordinator for arts festival across the UK including Brighton Festival, Harrogate Festival, Edinburgh Science Festival and Edinburgh Book Festival. They graduated in 2022 from the University of Edinburgh with a joint degree in Philosophy and Politics. In her downtime Niamh loves to read and play at local folk sessions, she also loves getting the bus out to Portobello for a wee sea swim.
Our Volunteers

Paul Tetlaw
Policy Advisor
Paul spent most of his career in environmental management in the water industry and was formerly a General Manager with Scottish Water. He was born in Yorkshire where he started his career in the water industry before moving to Scotland in 1980. He qualified as Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management. He has had a long-term interest in sustainable transport and its relationship to individuals’ quality of life and the built environment. He is a member of the steering group of Capital Rail Action Group (CRAG) and represents Transform on Transport Scotland’s High-Speed Rail Partnership Group. He also chaired ScotRail’s Stakeholder Advisory Panel from 2016 to 2019. He is on the Committee of the Scottish Association for Public Transport and was the Chair of Transform Scotland between October 2006 and October 2010. Paul currently spends most of his time at Transform focussing on rail issues aiming to influence the agenda for rail expansion within Scotland and on cross-border services. He is particularly proud of the part that Transform Scotland played in helping to ensure that a tram system was delivered in Edinburgh.

Lotti Lancaster
Chief Entertainment Officer
Lotti has a background on climate change and sustainability and has experience across the public and third sector. She is now a Civil Servant working at the Scottish Government, with a personal interest in sustainable and accessible public transport. Lotti has volunteered with Transform for over a decade on various projects, now in her favourite role of Chief Entertainment Officer.
Policy Advisor

Chris Day
Policy Advisor
As Policy Advisor Chris has, inter alia, helped form and argue our positions on the Transport Bill, City Region Deals, and Air Departure Tax. After working as a Social and Community Worker, in 1992 Chris joined the Lothian Regional Council’s Accessible Transport Team, moving on in the City of Edinburgh Council to work on transport policy, planning, strategy, and public transport including buses, rail, and taxis. After a varied career in transport he retired in 2016. Chris’ first experience of transport activism was, aged 8 or 9, writing ‘Marples must go’ in the dirt on his father’s car. Marples, indeed, went shortly thereafter.
Policy Advisor

Jamie Wallace
Policy Advisor
Jamie has had a broad-based career, largely focused on sustainability issues, across the private, public, and charity sectors. He worked for many years at the sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, helped grow a successful food business from London’s Borough Market, and worked in the environment team at the Greater London Authority. He set up the social enterprise walkit.com, an online tool to encourage more urban walking, launching it in over 40 towns and cities across the UK, and attracting hundreds of thousands of users. He takes a particular interest in the integrated environmental, social and economic case for rebalancing transport policy and practice away from private car use towards public transport and active travel.

Tom Flanagan
Policy Advisor
Tom is based in Dunbar and spends his spare time supporting the family retail business, Nørden, a skandi-styled retail store in North Berwick. Tom has extensive experience having been a local government Chief Officer for over 30 years leading on growth, transport, regeneration and environmental services. He is well versed in strategic partnership working and his immediate past role was Partnership Director for the Tayside and Central Scotland Regional Transport Partnership (TACTRAN). Tom was also previously Executive Director Place for Blackburn with Darwen BC. Before joining BwD, Tom held the strategic policy lead role with Oxfordshire County Council and has also served as the Corporate Director for Environment, Planning and Economy for Cornwall Council and Executive Director for Regeneration with Oldham MBC. As well as volunteering for Transform Scotland, Tom is also currently acting as Strategic Advisor to Strathclyde Partnership for Transport on their Regional Transport Strategy. He is a Scouser by birth, an avid Liverpool fan and holds a season ticket to Anfield. YNWA.

Nigel Bagshaw
Policy Advisor
Nigel’s job is to monitor Edinburgh City Council’s implementation of the tram project and any other transport plans and issues affecting the city. He has long been involved in transport issues as a local environmental campaigner. Nigel also served as a councillor on Edinburgh City Council from 2012 to 2017 where he spoke for the Green group on transport and planning matters and sat on the Board of Transport for Edinburgh. He spends a lot of time travelling by public transport throughout Europe, particularly the east, always with a keen eye on other cities’ urban transport systems and history.

Hilary Hao
Business Advisor
Meet Hilary Hao: a climate enthusiast, business mentor, and member of the Climate Reality Project Expert Network. She's on a mission to turbocharge the sustainability scene in both business and public infrastructure. Hilary's passion for low-carbon, accessible public transport hits close to home—literally! As a non-driver who loves to travel far and wide, she champions low-carbon and affordable transportation solutions wherever she goes.
Board of Directors

George Lowder
Chair of Transform Scotland
George is the Chair of the UK's Light Rail Safety and Standards Board, two Scottish charities and a Vice President of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. At the end of August 2024, after almost 9 years in the role, George stepped down as the Chief Executive of Transport for Edinburgh (TfE). TfE is the parent company of Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams, Edinburgh's municipally owned, award winning, public transport operators.

Debbie McCreath
Group Marketing Director at Alexander Dennis
Debbie is Group Marketing Director at Alexander Dennis, leading the group wide Marketing strategy for marketing, communications, and public affairs activity. Alexander Dennis is leading the transition to zero emission mobility through using technology to be cleaner, greener, quieter and the choice for transport companies around the world. Debbie originally joined the company in the role of Marketing Communications and Public Affairs Manager, as the company’s lobbying lead. Prior to joining Alexander Dennis, Debbie was advocating for an Innovation Centre in the University of Strathclyde looking to drive biotech uptake in Scotland, and previously worked for trade association the Food and Drink Federation. Outside of work, Debbie is a member of the Women in Public Affairs (WiPA) Scotland Executive Committee. The WiPA network aims to bring women from across the public affairs industry together to share experiences and insight and provides a support network for women at all levels in the public affairs industry. She sits on the Transform board as Vice-Chair.
Glasgow City Councillor

Angus Millar
Glasgow City Councillor
Angus is currently Glasgow City Council's Convener for Climate, Glasgow Green Deal, Transport and City Centre Recovery. In this role, he leads on the city's journey to Net Zero, promoting sustainability and a just transition to a greener economy, and developing the city's transport strategies. Angus also leads on Glasgow's city centre recovery efforts, supporting regeneration and championing a vibrant, mixed-use city centre economy. First elected in May 2016, Angus represents Glasgow City Centre and the Anderston, Finnieston and Yorkhill areas as one of four councillors for the Anderston/City/Yorkhill ward.

Lindsey Taylor
Communications Manager Scotland at LNER
Lindsey is the Communications Manager Scotland at LNER, leading and delivering communications, stakeholder engagement, partnerships and public affairs activity across Scotland. LNER is the rail company that has operated on the East Coast mainline since June 2018. LNER has ambitious plans to change the face of train travel and be the most responsible and sustainable way to travel for generations to come. A Better Journey is what our commitments to our people, our places, and our planet. Prior to joining LNER, Lindsey was the Senior PR & Communications Lead for the first of its kind policy and purpose led world cycling championships in Scotland. As a member of the marcomms senior leadership team at the Energy Saving, delivering campaigns on sustainable travel and transport. Lindsey is also Member of the Chartered Institute for Public Relations.
Appointed Member at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

Anne Follin
Appointed Member at Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Anne’s background is in Strategic Planning. The majority of her career was spent working for BAA Scotland, where she was responsible for the planning and development of the main Scottish airports. She had particular responsibility for surface access to the airports and was closely involved in the development of the Edinburgh Tram link to the airport, the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link and increasing bus patronage. Since 2013 she has been an Appointed Member of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. She is also a Lay Member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Client Protection Fund. In 2019 she became Chair of Trustees of Home-Start Falkirk Ltd, a charity which helps parents with young children who are facing difficult challenges in life. Anne is passionate about the importance of the role of good public transport in helping all sections of society develop and prosper.

Scott Prentice
Strategic Planning Director
Scott Prentice is ScotRail’s Strategic Planning Director and works closely with colleagues in Transport Scotland and Network Rail to develop the medium and long term plans for rail services in Scotland. After starting his career as an engineering management trainee with British Rail, he managed new train and infrastructure projects with Irish Rail and Network Rail respectively before working with a number of project management and transport planning consultancies. He has been part of the ScotRail team since 2012 and has a keen interest in improving accessibility and use of all active travel and public transport modes across Scotland.

Rachael Revesz
Living Streets Scotland representative
Rachael Revesz is a freelance writer and editor, focusing on the environment, public transport, finance and women's rights. Publications she has written for include the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Independent, the National, and other trade and consumer titles. Rachael is newsletter editor and volunteer for Living Streets Scotland (Edinburgh branch) and was previously a trustee for the Women's Budget Group, a think tank that analysed how government economic policy affects disadvantaged groups. She is excited to have released a podcast with a major network in 2024 about the oldest cold case in Scotland.

Karen McGregor
Director at Sustrans Scotland
Karen McGregor is the Scotland Director for Sustrans has been with the charity since February 2020. In her first three months with Sustrans Scotland, Karen lead business continuity operations during the pandemic as the charity dealt with lockdown. She then led collaboration with Transport Scotland, Public Health Scotland and a wide range of local authority stakeholders and active travel partners to respond to public need to have space to exercise outdoors and make essential journeys on foot and by bike. This led to the Spaces for People fund which statutory bodies to deliver temporary infrastructure to give people safe space in which to physically distance while walking, cycling and wheeling. Karen has represented Sustrans in various policy forums and has spoken on the National Planning Framework NPF4, Transport Decarbonisation and on designing spaces for children and young people. Before joining Sustrans, Karen worked with a Transport Operator as Director of Customer Sales and Marketing. Prior to that she was CEO of Firstport, Scotland’s go-to agency for start-up social entrepreneurs.
Co-opted Member

Jolin Warren
Co-opted Member
Jolin has been working in sustainability and carbon management in Scotland for over eighteen years, with experience and expertise in a wide range of subjects, including carbon accounting and energy management, transport policy and impacts, renewable energy, land use, waste management, and environmental legislation compliance. His research work has ranged from the business benefits of rail travel through to best practice in active travel and making sense of Scotland’s sprawling road-building budget. Jolin works with third sector organisations providing carbon footprint, environmental best practice, and sustainable transport expertise. He was formally the Environmental Officer for the National Trust for Scotland where he developed their carbon footprint calculations and reporting, managed their Climate Change Action Plan, and provided strategic and operational advice to all levels of the organisation. Jolin also served on the Board of Friends of the Earth Scotland for six years. Jolin sits on the Transform board as Treasurer.
Our Policy Forum

Dr Karen Barrass
Founder of Climate Insights
Karen's extensive experience lies in research and advocacy – developing insight and policy tools and leading campaigns to affect positive change. She founded Climate Insights in 2023 to provide bespoke in depth research and policy analysis on today's urgent environmental challenges. She previously led policy and research activities at UK100. Prior to this, she spent four years advising European parliamentarians on climate, air quality and transport and working with communities across the South East. She has a long track record as an independent consultant, working with various international public and private organisations on transport and sustainability, including Urban Foresight, Global Action Plan and UN Habitat. Karen’s doctorate from Oxford University explored the policy implementation processes necessary to decarbonise transport. Karen began her career at The Climate Group and contributes her insight and expertise to Transform's Policy Forum as the group's Convenor.

Malcolm Reed
Personal capacity
Malcolm Reed was the first Chief Executive of Transport Scotland and was previously Director General of Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive. Since retiring from full-time employment in 2009 he has held a variety of advisory and consultancy roles in the transport sector both north and south of the border, which have included assignments for Virgin Trains, Nexus, and Abellio. His previous career included posts at Glasgow University, the Planning Exchange in Glasgow, Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive, and Strathclyde Regional Council, latterly as assistant chief executive with responsibility for the Council’s infrastructure and protective services. He was appointed a CBE for services to transport in the 2004 new year’s honours. Malcolm maintains his professional interest in transport through fellowships of the CILT, CIHT, and the Institute of Railway Operators, and his strong personal commitment to sustainable transport is reflected in his current role as Vice-President of SAPT. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel of the Railway Heritage Trust and for many years has served on the judging panel of the National Rail Awards.
Public Health Programme Manager at the GCPH

Bruce Whyte
Public Health Programme Manager at the GCPH
Bruce sits on the policy forum at Transform Scotland and was previously a board member. At GCPH, Bruce leads a programme of research into active and sustainable travel. Recent publications have included a review of cycling casualties and near misses in Scotland and an evaluation of a bike inclusion scheme (Bikes for All). He is currently involved in analysis of cycling and walking trends during lockdown and research to estimate the health economic impact of pedestrian and cycle commuting in Scotland.

Stefan Maurice
Infrastructure Coordinator for Sustrans Scotland
Stefan is a Partnerships Manager for Sustrans Scotland, where he supports local authorities across Scotland in developing and delivering strategic active travel projects. Previous projects Stefan has worked on include Stockingfield Bridge in north Glasgow, Bowling Bridge in West Dunbartonshire, and the Claypits Local Nature Reserve. In 2018, Scotland’s Year of Young People, he was awarded a travel scholarship by the Green Action Trust to examine youth engagement with sustainable urban design across the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. As a member of the Policy Forum, he supports and informs Transform Scotland’s work on strategic transport developments, with a particular focus on active travel. In his spare time, Stefan enjoys exploring Scotland’s coastal paths, and performing up and down the country on drums with Hamish Hawk.

John Pinkard
Managing Director of Ansons Consulting Ltd.
John is a member of Transform Scotland’s Policy Forum and was previously a member, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Board. He has a deep understanding of the role sustainable travel and transport can play in creating a better world and is committed to helping deliver this outcome. John arrived in the UK in 2004, having started his 30+ year career in Australia. His day job is Managing Director of Ansons Consulting Ltd, a company that specialises in planning, delivering and evaluating measures designed to reduce the social, environmental, economic and/ or financial impacts of travel and transport. Alongside his consultancy work, John has also spent several years working in a range of relevant public sector policy and strategy roles and has volunteered his time to support the work of several charities. He holds a degree in Outdoor Education and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business.

Sue Flack
Transport and planning consultant
Sue has considerable public sector experience but has also worked in consultancy for 8 years. She was Director of Planning and Transport at Nottingham City Council from 2012 to 2016, having previously been responsible for developing the levy in Nottingham from its initial stages and before that developing travel plans across the city. More recently she has advised various local authorities in England who want to develop Workplace Parking Levy in their area and is currently working mostly for Leicester City Council. She is a trustee for the URBED Trust.In her spare time Sue tries really hard to keep fit and blogs about living in an eco housing estate.

Roger Humphry
Quantitative scientist/statistician
Roger works on public health and veterinary epidemiology. Roger is attracted to transport because he believes that if government were to match funding and decision-making to their policy (e.g. the Sustainable Transport Hierarchy), we would see substantial improvements in a number of important outcomes (health, economic, environmental, social). Roger has argued it is a policy area in which most of the solutions already exist and for which we have good evidence. So all that is now needed, is implementation. Roger is involved in a few local and national groups – trying to create paths and making the case for more sustainable transport policy.

Dr Jonathan Cowie
Lecturer in Transport Economics at Edinburgh Napier University
Jonathan is the author of The Economics of Transport published by Routledge in 2009, and joint editor of the Routledge Handbook of Transport Economics published in 2017. Jonathan has authored many conference and journal papers in the area of supply side economics of transport services (both public and freight), is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and long-time member of the Scottish Economic Society. His research interests centre around the common theme of supply side transport economics, which includes issues such as ownership (private v public), economic regulation, costs (both public and private) and productivity/efficiency assessment. As an example, Jonathan is currently involved in an EU funded project which is examining possible ways and policy implications for greening last mile deliveries, primarily based on the use of cargo bikes.

Dr Caroline Brown
Director at Royal Town Planning Institute
Caroline teaches and researches topics around environmental and social sustainability and the role of the built environment in supporting human and planetary health. Caroline is particularly interested in active travel and the experiences of women, children and disabled people who cycle or wish to cycle. Despite lots of evidence about the lower uptake of cycling among women for example, there is little nuanced understanding of the reasons for the differences and how they might be tackled in policy and design. In an attempt to cover some of these gaps, Caroline has supervised and advised many student research projects about active travel, including a PhD exploring cyclist-pedestrian interactions on shared paths, and several exploring the experiences of women cycling in Edinburgh. Caroline documents some of her thoughts about transport issues on her blog. Caroline is a co-director of the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling and a founding committee member for the Women’s Cycle Forum Scotland.

Hussein Patwa
Accessibility Consultant
Hussein served on the Mobility & Access Committee for Scotland advising government and external stakeholders on all issues related to accessible transport, and is currently Acting Secretary of the Scottish Accessible Transport Alliance. He acted as a member of and patient representative to the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain and has volunteered with RNIB in a variety of mid to high level roles across the UK. Hussein is an avid reader and travel enthusiast, and has worked with a number of groups on projects to facilitate inclusive low-carbon journeys, with a specific focus on inclusive communication, design and technological innovation. Hussein is registered blind and suffers from chronic pain, and has worked to ensure the voices of disabled people are heard, while using his own lived experience to ensure that products and services are accessible, affordable and available to all.
Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Association for Public Transport

David Giles
Deputy Chairman of the Scottish Association for Public Transport
David has been an active member of the Scottish Association for Public Transport (SAPT) since returning to Scotland in 2015. Prior to that, he worked in software development, project management and consultancy for large IT services companies. He has a degree in Computer Science from Edinburgh University and an MBA from the Open University. Since retiring, and returning to Scotland, he has pursued long standing interests in transportation and walking. Besides his involvement in SAPT, he leads Health Walks for Active Stirling, has conducted pedestrian conditions assessments for Living Streets Scotland and is involved in the Slow Ways project. He also provides private tuition in Higher and Advanced Higher (and occasionally university level) mathematics!

Erik Dalhuijsen
Transition Engineer
Erik Dalhuijsen is a physicist, petroleum and renewables engineer, currently working as free-lance consultant in the transition space. While new to the transport policy arena, he has extensive experience in analysis and appraisal of projects great and small from 30 years in the global and local oil industry, favouring an integrated approach to resolve complex challenges. His experience with renewables transition and modelling at local and regional level abroad, combined with a deep understanding of the energy balance, helps separate decarbonisation solutions from distractions. Erik has a strong affinity with sustainable transport, from his Dutch roots -with cycling as a primary form of mobility- to his climate change advocacy work as co-founder/director of Aberdeen Climate Action CIC. He is also an avid ocean sailor.

Jamie Wilson
Head of Engineering at Alexander Dennis
Jamie is Head of Engineering at Alexander Dennis Ltd. As a Chartered Engineer, he has spent over 15 years in the bus industry and shaped successive generations of new bus and coach product including diesel, hybrid, gas, fuel cell and battery electric. Jamie is passionate about public transport, specifically bus product, and an advocate for ensuring it remains universally affordable and accessible for all. As a bus industry professional, Jamie often participates in industry events, groups, workshops and delivers lectures to interest groups on technology developments within the industry.
Our Members
As well as our brilliant team, we also have over 60 member organisations from across the public, private and third sector.