Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has appointed former South Yorkshire top figure Tom Bousfield as its new executive director of transport.
Mr Bousfield previously served as the executive director for growth, business and skills for the South Yorkshire Combined Authority.
His early career started as a junior associate for the New Economics Foundation, with later roles including senior economic advisor for the National Infrastructure Commission at HM Treasury, senior advisor for the prime minister's implementation unit at the Cabinet Office, and a return to HM Treasury as head of local and international transport.
He has also led national funding portfolios spanning local transport, buses and the national roads programme.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough stated that this appointment will play a ‘pivotal role' in realising the region's goal of ‘tripling the size of the economy by 2050, with transport acting as a key enabler of growth set out in the Local Growth Plan'.
The combined authority mayor Paul Bristow commented that Mr Bousfield brings ‘the strategic capability and collaborative leadership needed to get Cambridgeshire and Peterborough moving'.
Mr Bousfield added that he was delighted to be joining the combined authority 'at such a pivotal moment'.
