Kathleen Jacobi

Kathleen is the Sustainability Portfolio Coordinator of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), a state agency providing national road, cycling, and light rail infrastructure and services in the Republic of Ireland. Having a specific interest in gender equality, travel equity and active travel, she has been part of the team developing ‘All Aboard: TII's Accessibility Podcast’ published earlier this year. She is currently working on a study exploring female participation in active travel which builds on findings of TII’s ‘Travelling in a Woman’s Shoes’ study that was published in 2020.

Since 2008 Kathleen has been working in various roles on Luas, the light rail system in Dublin. She holds a BEng (Hons) in Structural Engineering and an MSc in Sustainable Transport and Mobility. Kathleen is a member of the ‘Research in Mobility’ Committee and ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Working Group within UITP (The International Association of Public Transport), and the European Commission’s ‘Ambassadors for Diversity in Transport Network’.