Martin Humphreys

Martin Humphreys, Senior Transport Economist, has over fourteen years experience in the transport sector.  His primary areas of expertise include transport policy and the economics of the transport sector, including pricing, costing, the internalization of external costs, with a particular emphasis on project appraisal in developing and transitional economies. He has accumulated considerable experience, having worked in a number of different sectors: inland water transport, trade facilitation, ports, railways and roads, in a number of different geographical locations: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Lithuania, Serbia and Montenegro, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. He also has academic research experience into transport investment appraisal, primarily social cost-benefit analysis and COBA, and more recently, the use of expressed preference techniques to ascertain indirect and non-use values for rail-based public transport, as part of his doctoral research. His responsibilities within the World Bank include the management of economic and sector work and project supervision and preparation, primarily in the countries of the Western Balkans. 

Education: B.Sc. Economics, University of Wales; M.A. Transport Economics and Ph.D. Transport Economics, Institute for Transport Studies, The University of Leeds.