ProfessorAisling Reynolds-Feighan

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan has worked as a transport economist for more than 35 years. She is Professor of Transport Economics at UCD. She has worked as a transport consultant/expert to the European Commission, US Department of Transportation, and Irish Department of Transport, as well as the Economic & Social Research Institute Dublin, the Irish Exporters Association and DKM Economic Consultants. She was a member of the EU's FP7 and FP6 Expert Advisory Panels in Transport.

Aisling has published extensively on air and road transport economics in the leading international transportation research journals. She has presented to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport (parliamentary committee), and contributes regularly to public debate on transport matters through TV, radio and print media outlets. She was Chair of the Regional Science Association International British and Irish Section, 2013-2017. She was a member of the Tourism Recovery Oversight Group appointed by the Minister for Tourism in 2020. She is currently a member of the Irish Department of Transport's Road Freight Forum. In the Spring 2022, Aisling was Visiting Professor at the David O' Maley College of Business, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA.

She is currently PI on the UCD Energy Institute NexSys TR3 Project "Transition to commercial vehicle electrification policy".