Daniel Moylan

Daniel Moylan Hon FRIBA (born 1 March 1956) is an English Conservative politician, a member of Kensington and Chelsea Council and co-chairman of Urban Design London. He is a former deputy chairman of Transport for London, former chairman of the London Legacy Development Corporation and was chief aviation advisor to Boris Johnson as Mayor of London, advocating a new hub airport to the east of London to replace Heathrow, and also the Mayor's principal advisor on Crossrail 2.

In 2010 an article in the London Evening Standard described Moylan as "one of London's most powerful and colourful politicians".

Moylan was educated at St Philip’s Grammar School, Edgbaston. In 1975 he went up to the Queen's College, Oxford, where he took a degree in German and Philosophy. He was President of the Oxford Union in the Michaelmas term, 1978, and in November gained publicity by securing Richard Nixon as a guest speaker.

Moylan joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in December 1978. After some time in the FCO’s Central and Southern African Department, he undertook Afrikaans language training and was posted to the British Embassy in South Africa as Third Secretary, reporting on the progress of South-West Africa to independence as Namibia. In 1982, Moylan left the FCO and joined County Bank, the investment banking subsidiary of National Westminster, and stayed with them until 1986. At the general election of 1983 he was the Conservative candidate for the constituency of Birmingham Erdington, losing to Robin Corbett by 231 votes. In 1986 he joined Security Pacific Hoare Govett as a Vice-President, and left them in 1987 to set up Egan Associates, a company providing training courses to financial institutions.

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