James works to progress policies that discourage ever-larger private vehicles, otherwise known as SUVisation, or simply carspreading. His previous roles include freight director at T&E, executive director at Green Budget Europe and policy director at An Taisce, Ireland's national trust. James has also served as a non-executive director of Ireland’s state railway company Irish Rail (2012-2015), as a T&E board member (2015-2017), and he worked for T&E in Dublin between 2012 and 2015, coinciding with Ireland’s EU presidency in 2013.
James is a law graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds masters degrees in sustainable transport and real estate development from the Dublin Institute of Technology. He is co-author of Chaos at the Crossroads, a book chronicling Ireland’s development path before its post-2008 financial crisis. As well as spending time with family and friends, James also enjoys reading and hiking.
