Steven Norris

Steve has a degree in Law. He spent most of his life in business before entering Parliament in 1983. He became Minister of Transport with special responsibility for London from 1992 to 1996, the first time a minister had been given multi-modal responsibility for the capital.  Steve was later honoured as a Companion of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and was made a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and of the Institution of Highways and Transportation.

Steve retired from Parliament in 1997 and became Director General of the Road Haulage Association from 1997 - 1999.   He came out of political retirement to be Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London in 2000 and again in 2004, running Ken Livingstone close on both occasions.

Steve is passionate about public transport, and is a member of the Council of the Railway Forum.  As a minister, he authored the original National Cycling Strategy for England, and was invited by the current Labour government to found and lead the National Cycling Strategy Board.  Steve is also a Patron of Sustrans, the cycling charity, and of the NGO Transport 2000.  He is President of the Intelligent transport Society, the independent telematics forum representing industry and government in the global ITS movement.

In his business life, Steve is Executive Chairman of Jarvis plc, Chairman of AMT-Sybex Group and a director of a number of other quoted and private companies, many in the field of transport and the built environment.  He is Senior Partner at Park Place Communications, a consultancy specialising in transport and the built environment. Steve writes a regular column for Property Week.