Mrs. Elizabeth Jones leads the Transport Research portfolio for the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is the Senior Transport Adviser within FCDO and joined the UK Government in 1997.

Mrs. Elizabeth Jones has more than 25 years’ experience working on international development globally. She has worked and lived in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Bangladesh and most recently for four years in Fiji. She has extensive experience working with partner governments, bilaterals, multi-laterals and civil society spanning transport, water supply & sanitation, urban development and anti-corruption. She has previously held positions on the UK Institute of Civil Engineer’s Transport Journal Panel, Chaired the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility Board, been a founding Board member for Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) and Board member for the University of Birmingham’s Road Management & Engineering MSc.