Joseph S. Szyliowicz

Joseph S. Szyliowicz is the Founder of its Intermodal Transportation Institute which he directed for ten years and a Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.  He is the recipient of the University’s Distinguished Service Award, the Alliance for Transportation Research’s International Award for Science and Ethics in Transportation Research, the “Educator of the Year” award from the Denver Transportation Community, and the Burlington Northern Foundation award for outstanding scholarship.  

He has served as a consultant and reviewer to many governmental agencies such as the Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, and the Transportation Research Board.  He served as the General Rapporteur for the International Conference on Sustainable Transportation in Developing Countries (Abu Dhabi, 2005) and as the International Co-Chair of the Sustainable Transportation Task Force of the China Council for International Cooperation and Environmental Development.  He has been a member of the U.S. delegation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Intermodal Transportation Working Group for several years and has helped organize workshops and training programs dealing with intermodalism in the Philippines, Singapore, and Indonesia.   

His areas of expertise include the Middle East, sustainable development and transportation, including security issues.  He has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences and workshops on those topics, is author, co-author, or editor of a half dozen books and reports and has written more than two dozen book chapters and articles.  In the area of security he has participated in various conferences including a NATO Workshop and has contributed chapters to several books and to such publications as the Review of Policy Research, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Transportation Quarterly, The Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration, and the Encyclopedia of Terrorism.

He has received fellowships and grants from The Alliance for Transportation Research, The American Research Institute in Turkey, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the US Fulbright Commission, the Social Science Foundation, the Rand Graduate Institute and the European Union’s Atlantis Program.  He has co-authored major institutional grants from the USHEW and the USDOT.  He has been a Senior Fellow at various academic institutions including St Antony's College, Oxford University, the Harry S. Truman Institute and the Institute of Advanced Studies (both at Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and has taught and lectured at numerous universities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.  He is the North American Editor of the World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, Chair of the International Political Science Association’s Science, Technology and Public Policy Research Committee, the U.S. Representative for the Transportation Security Cluster of the Network for European Communications and Transportation Researchers (NECTAR) and has served as President of the Denver Council on Foreign Relations since 2005.  He has also published several "oped" pieces in such journals as the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post and Engineering News and Record and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs in Denver as well as on The McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, the Voice of America, and National Public Radio.