Airline Economics Seminar
Kenneth Button
Professor of Public Policy
George Mason University
Kenneth Button holds the following titles: B.A. (East Anglia), M.A.
(Leeds), Ph.D. (Loughborough), Fellow of the Institute of Logistics
and Transport, Fellow of the Institution of Highways and Transportation,
and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport.
He has been Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for
Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics in the School of Public
Policy, George Mason University since 1997.
From 1994 to 1996 he was Conseiller in the Advisory Unit to the Secretary
General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Paris, where he headed work on international aviation policy. He was
at that time on leave from being concurrently Professor of Applied Economics
and Transport at Loughborough University, UK, and VSB Visiting Professor
of Transport and the Environment at the Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam.
He was also Director of the Centre for Research in Economics and Finance
at Loughborough University. Dr. Button was the Special Advisor to the
UK House of Common Transport Committee between 1993 and 1994. In 1990
he was full-time Consultant to the OECD Environmental Directorate. Prior
to that, he directed the Center for Applied Economics and Finance at
Loughborough University. He has held visiting posts at the University
of British Columbia, the University of California at Berkley and the
University of Bologna.
Dr. Button's academic training was in the fields of economics, econometrics
and transportation planning. He has published, or has in press, some
90 books, more than 400 papers in leading academic journals, and forecasting
software. He has also given written and oral evidence to the U.S. Congressional
Transportation Committee and to both the UK House of Lords and UK House
of Commons Transport Committees.
Dr. Button is editor of the refereed academic journals Transportation
Research D: Transport and the Environment and of the Journal
of Air Transport Management and is on the editorial boards of
nine other journals. He is on the scientific committee of the World
Conference on Transport Research. He has just served on National Academy
of Sciences Committees Surface Transportation Environmental Research:
A Long-term Strategy (Special Report 268 of the TRB) and Freight
Capacity in the 21 st Century (Special Report 271 of the TRB).
He is currently on a TRB committee organizing an international conference
on road pricing.
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