Stephen Van Beek, Executive Director

Steve Van Beek is Executive Director of Policy and Strategy for LeighFisher with over two decades of management, transportation industry, and academic experience. In this capacity, Steve advises airport and transport clients and coordinates policy and business strategy across the consulting firm’s lines of business. He is involved in a variety of client services including strategic planning and policy analysis, multimodal planning, transportation funding, and finance, as well as federal laws/regulations/policy.

Previously, Steve served as the President and CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation, a non-profit specializing in developing transportation leaders while also devising innovative solutions for the transportation industry and government. At Eno, Steve led a number of consulting assignments and policy forums on the state of the surface transportation and aviation trust funds, sustainability, strategic planning, and workforce development.

Steve was Executive Vice President of Policy for Airports Council International, North America where he represented U.S. and Canadian airports on a variety of issues including funding, congestion, and delay, as well as security. Prior to that engagement, he served as Associate Deputy Secretary and Director of the Office of Intermodalism for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

In addition to his LeighFisher work, Steve serves as a member of the FAA Management Advisory Council, as a senior advisor to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, and sits on university boards devoted to intermodalism, transportation policy and operations, and marine highways.