Edmund King is President of the Automobile Association and Director of the AA Charitable Trust for Road Safety and the Environment. He is also a Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University.
He has written several reports on transport and often appears as a transport commentator on radio, television, and podcasts. He was an advisor to the Citizens Assembly UK on climate change and drives an EV.
He was awarded an OBE for ‘services to road safety’ in 2016. He was runner-up in the Wolfson Economics Prize 2017 alongside his wife, Deirdre, for their thesis on ‘Road Miles’.
In 2020 he was inducted into the PRWeek ‘Hall of Fame’ and with his team won the PRWeek Best Public Affairs Campaign and PRCA Best Automotive Campaign for their work on ‘smart’ motorways.
He is a keen advocate of electric vehicles and often promotes their benefits in blogs, podcasts, articles and at conferences.
