Neil Scales is a former British-Australian public servant. He was the Director-General of the

Department of Transport & Main Roads The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), is a department of the Queensland Government. TMR was formed in April 2009 by merging Queensland Transport and the Department of Main Roads. TMR manages Queensland's 33,000 km state road ...

, in

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having assumed the office in 2013, and serving until June 2023.

Career and Life

Between 1999 and 2012, Scales was chief executive officer and director-general of

Merseytravel Merseytravel is a public transport body and the passenger transport executive of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority responsible for delivering Public transport and other transport functions in the Liverpool City Region. It was origin ...

in Liverpool. Scales resigned from Merseytravel in December 2011, to take up an appointment in the Queensland Public Sector. He joined TransLink in Brisbane, Australia, in March 2012 as chief executive officer. In March 2013, Scales was appointed director-general of the Queensland

. He retired in 2023.

Awards

Scales was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to transport.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Australian public servants British emigrants to Australia Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{Australia-gov-bio-stub