Neil Scales

Neil Scales
OBE
Director-General of the Department of Transport and Main Roads
Assumed office
March 2013
Chief Executive Officer of TransLink
In office
March 2012  March 2013
Chief Executive and Director General of Merseytravel
In office
1999–2012
Personal details
Occupation Public servant

Neil Scales OBE is a senior Australian public servant. He is currently Director-General of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, having assumed the office in 2013.

Life and career

Between 1999 and 2012, Scales was Chief Executive Officer and Director-General of Merseytravel.[1]

Scales resigned from Merseytravel in December 2011, to take up an appointment in the Queensland Public Sector.[2][3] He joined Translink, the public transport authority in Brisbane, Australia, in March 2012 as Chief Executive Officer.[4]

In March 2013, Scales was appointed Director-General of the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads.[5]

Awards

Scales was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to transport.[5]

References

  1. Goeldner, David (15 December 2011). "TransLink CEO Found". Australasian Bus and Coach. Bauer Trader Media. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. "Merseytravel chief executive Neil Scales leaves for new transport job in Australia". Liverpool Echo. Trinity Mirror Merseyside. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015.
  3. "Neil Scales to leave Merseytravel for TransLink, Australia". Global Rail News. Rail Media. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015.
  4. Department of Transport and Main Roads, Director-General, Queensland Government, archived from the original on 17 March 2015
  5. 1 2 Emerson, Scott (1 March 2013). "Neil Scales appointed TMR Director-General" (Press release). Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015.
Government offices
Preceded by
Michael Caltabiano
Director-General of the Department of Transport and Main Roads
2013 –
Incumbent


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