Robert Puentes

Robert Puentes is the president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think tank that aims to improve transportation and promote policy innovation. He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Puentes is an expert on transportation and infrastructure, urban planning and smart cities.

Puentes serves on a variety of boards, including the Shared-Use Mobility Center, UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, and Young Professionals in Transportation.

His recent appointments include the Federal Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity; New York State’s 2100 Infrastructure Commission; the Advisory Council of the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Transportation Reinvention Commission; the District of Columbia’s Streetcar Financing and Governance Task Force; the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Technical Advisory Committee; and the Falls Church, Virginia Planning Commission.