Tony Melville Ridley CBE was born on 1933 and is a British civil engineer and professor.
18 Facts About Tony Ridley
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Tony Ridley worked as a design and site engineer in the US and Britain before becoming chief research officer of the highways and transport department of the Greater London Council.
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Tony Ridley became director-general of the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive in 1969 where he oversaw the development of plans for the Tyne and Wear Metro.
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Tony Ridley was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from March 1995 to November 1996.
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Tony Melville Ridley was born in Castletown, Sunderland in 1933.
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Tony Ridley attended Durham School before graduating with a bachelor of science degree from the University of Newcastle.
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Tony Ridley's education has been associated with universities in the United States including Northwestern University, Illinois; the University of California and Stanford University.
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Tony Ridley was awarded a doctor of philosophy degree for a dissertation on the evaluation of transport investment.
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Tony Ridley was a site engineer for the construction of Bradwell nuclear power station and a design engineer for the Nuclear Power Group of Knutsford.
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Tony Ridley was later chief research officer for the highways and transport department of the Greater London Council before he was selected, in 1969, to become the director-general of the newly founded Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive.
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Tony Ridley remained in post as director general until 1975 when he was appointed managing director of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation.
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Tony Ridley left Hong Kong in 1978 and during the 1980s was chief executive officer of London Underground.
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In 1987 Tony Ridley won the Institution Prize of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation.
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Tony Ridley was a director of Halcrow Fox consulting engineers between 1992 and 2004, of the Major Projects Association between 1995 and 2009 and of the RAC Foundation from 1995 to 2010.
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Tony Ridley was Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London in the late 1990s and still maintains an emeritus professorship in the department.
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Tony Ridley served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from March 1995 to November 1996.
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Tony Ridley was appointed to the presidency following the death in office of Edmund Hambly.
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Tony Ridley served out the remainder of Hambly's term as well as the usual 12 months in office, becoming the first person to do so since Herbert Manzoni in 1961.