Garel Rhys CBE

Professor Emeritus, University of Cardiff

Professor Emeritus Garel Rhys CBE is the UK's foremost academic observer of the global motor industry and until October 2005 he held the SMMT Chair of Motor Industry Economics and he was also Director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff, and is now its President. He is Professor Emeritus University of Cardiff, President of the Institute of the Motor Industry and counsels the boards of many of the global automotive industry's leading manufacturers and suppliers and governmental and parliamentary organisations. He has written widely on the economics of the world automotive sector including commercial vehicles, components and automobiles and his international broadcasting activities bring the economics of transport and the automotive sector to a wide audience.