Roger Vickerman
University of Kent, UK

Roger Vickerman is Professor of European Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, where he is also Director of the Centre for European, Regional and Transport Economics, Director of the Kent Centre for Europe: a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Associate Dean for the Transmanche University Network. He holds degrees in Economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex and an honorary doctorate in Economics from the Phillipps-Universität Marburg. His main research interests are the relationship between transport (especially infrastructure), regional development and integration in the European Union; and the role of migration and labour mobility in integration. He is particularly known for his studies on the Channel Tunnel and its economic effects, on which he recently completed a follow-up study of the impact over the first 10 years. He was a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment (SACTRA) in the UK, 1996-1999, contributing to its major report on Transport and the Economy, and has recently completed contributions to studies on the Territorial Impacts of EU Transport and TEN Policies for the EU’s ESPON initiative and Spatial Visions for North West Europe. He has served as an advisor to committees of both the House of Commons and House of Lords in the UK Parliament and acted as a consultant to the European Commission, various UK government departments and regional and local government authorities.

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