Brian Robinson, Commercial Vehicle Emissions Consultant, Zemo Partnership

Brian provides technical support to Zemo Partnership’s Commercial Vehicle Working Group and its various van and truck-related initiatives and acts as the main point of contact on freight transport emissions issues for DfT and TfL’s LoCITY programme. 

Brian is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist, with a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, and has over thirty years’ experience in transport, energy and climate change policy, sustainability, vehicle safety, strategic analysis, professional associations, programme leadership and managing people, projects and resources. Before going freelance in 2014, Brian spent 16 years in increasingly senior roles at TRL Ltd, carrying out mostly HGV-related safety and environmental research, and 12 years at IMechE, much of that as Head of Energy.

Outside of Zemo Partnership and other work, Brian is a Board Member of the Society for the Environment, a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and a Board Member of the IMechE’s Energy, Environment & Sustainability Group.