Before that Henry served as Assistant Commissioner for Transportation Policy and Public Transportation at NYSDOT. Here he made contributions to the Department’s programs in planning, mass transit, aviation, railroads, trucks and ports. He oversaw economic regulation, transportation policy development and implementation.

He also served as Program Associate in the Governor’s Office where he advised the Governor on programs in transportation, environment and public recreation.
Henry has attended Purdue University, Yale University and the University of Minnesota, where he received his doctorate in Transportation.

He has served as a guest lecturer at the Rockefeller Institute for Public Policy and as an Adjunct Professor at Union College.

Since retiring Henry is active with the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management and is a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.

He has served as an Independent Transportation Consultant for numerous state, national and international projects. He has many accomplishments in transit including serving as an independent consultant to USDOT to act as Special Advisor to the Minister of Communications in Saudi Arabia in 1995.

He is married to Sally Warboys Peyrebrune and has five children.