Stephen Stacey has been a General Manager at Toyota Motor Europe since 2001 and today leads the Government and Technical Affairs Division, a team of twenty-one engineers and policy specialists based in Toyota’s European headquarters but working closely with the company’s national sales companies. Before joining Toyota, he was for fifteen years a consultant and lobbyist in London and Brussels. He studied at Oxford University, from which he has a degree and a doctorate in modern history, and began his professional career teaching at universities in the UK. Stephen Stacey is a member of Toyota Motor Europe’s task force responsible for the company’s pan-European plug-in hybrid electric vehicle project.