Jari Kauppila

Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division

International Transport Forum

Dr. Jari Kauppila is Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division at the International Transport Forum at the OECD. His team works on wide range of transport policy issues and is responsible for the ITF’s flagship publication, Transport Outlook, quantitative model development and statistical data collection, among others. Since joining the ITF in 2007, Jari has also coordinated several international research projects on topics such as logistics, transport reliability, decarbonisation, road safety and infrastructure investment. Prior joining the ITF in 2007, Jari spent nearly ten years as a lead economist with the Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland. Besides his duties at the ITF, Jari is an Adjunct Professor in Transport Economics at the Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Turku School of Economics in Finland.