Katie BLACK

Katie Black has been Energy Transition Director for Transdev Group since February 2024. In this role she leads the team responsible for developing and implementing Transdev’s zero emission fleet strategy across all modes of transport and 19 countries.

Prior to this she spent twelve years in the UK’s civil service working in the Department for Transport, the National Infrastructure Commission and the Department for Energy and Climate Change. From 2020 to 2023 she was the Joint Head of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles. In this role, she oversaw the policies, regulations and subsidies required to support the phase-out of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2035 in the UK. She has a first-class masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Leeds, where her research project focussed on the degradation of key chemicals used in the carbon capture and storage process.