Edmund King

President, The Automobile Association

SAFER MOTORISTS SESSION: 12th November 2009

Edmund King is the President of the Automobile Association and a Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University.

He has a politics degree from Newcastle University and a postgraduate diploma in broadcasting from Santa Monica College. He has worked as a committee secretary for the Social Science Research Council, for a Government Department in Whitehall, in public relations for a wine company in Burgundy, in the motor industry in California, as a broadcaster in Los Angeles, as Campaigns Co-Coordinator for the British Road Federation, and for the RAC and the RAC Foundation.

He has written several reports on transport and often appears as a transport commentator on radio and television. He is a member of the transport sector panel of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a committee member of the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association and a member of the Motorists’ Forum.