Commissioner B - Airports Commission
Professor Dame Julia King
Biography
Professor Dame Julia King DBE FREng is an engineer who has been Vice-Chancellor of Aston University since 2006. She:
- is a member of the Committee on Climate Change
- is a Non-Executive Director of Angel Trains and of the Green Investment Bank
- is a member of the UK Airports Commission
- sits on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- is the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador
Her previous appointments include:
- senior roles at Rolls-Royce plc in aerospace and marine
- Principal of the Engineering Faculty at Imperial College
- Non-Executive Director of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
- leading the King Review on low carbon cars for the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2007 to 2008
Commissioner B - Airports Commission
Responsibilities are:
- submitting a report to the government by the end of 2013 identifying and recommending options to the government for maintaining the UK’s status as an international hub for aviation
- recommending to the government immediate actions to improve the use of existing runway capacity in the next 5 years – consistent with credible long-term options
- submitting a final report to the government by summer 2015 assessing the environmental, economic and social costs and benefits of various solutions to increase airport capacity
- considering operational, commercial and technical viability