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Shirley Ybarra, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
Shirley Ybarra is a senior transportation policy analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
Ms. Ybarra served as Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2002, overseeing a budget of $3.2 billion and a staff of 13,000 people. Between 1994 and 1998, Ybarra was Virginia's Deputy Secretary of Transportation.
Ybarra authored Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995, considered the model public-private partnership legislation in the United States.
In 2001, Ybarra received the American Road and Transportation Builders Association's "Public-Private Ventures Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for her leadership in designing innovative infrastructure financing.
Ybarra also
served as senior policy advisor and special assistant for policy for
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole from 1983 to 1987. In
that role, Ybarra managed the transfer and privatization of Dulles and
National Airports to the Washington Metropolitan Airport Authority.
She holds a Master's degree in Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Reason Foundation
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