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Professor Abbas has over 30 years of experience in transportation consultancy, research, training and academia. This involved leading & managing transport groups/sections/departments and conducting projects/studies/research/training/teaching in fields of: strategic, urban and transport...

Shahrin was being appointed as the Vice President, Trains Planning and Capability Development with effect from 1 May 2016 to strengthen its organic planning capabilities and liaise with the Land Transport Authority of Singapore. Reporting directly to the Managing Director, SMRT Trains...

Ali Abdollahpour was born in 1969. He joined Tehran metro Co. at 1997 and has held a number of different positions at Tehran metro. In 2007 he was appointed as quality and safety manager and He was selected deputy manager of stations and technical vice president in 2013. He is chosen for vice...

Mr. Allouzi has a bachelor degree in International Relations, Served as the manager of parliament affairs in Jordanian  prime minister since 1994 till 2010 then he took over as the manager of Jordan Hejaz railway until this moment.

Abdulkareem Al-Yami, AVEVA ProCon’s Regional Director of Sales for the MENA region is responsible for the management of regional new business and accounts, working closely with our customers to ensure they achieve the return on the investment they had made in ProCon. With over fifteen years of...

Naji AtallahHead of AEC and ManufacturingAutodesk – Middle East & TurkeyNaji Atallah, who joined Autodesk in 2013, leads its AEC and Manufacturing Department. He focuses on defining the vision for Autodesk in the building and manufacturing industries, as well as cultivating and sustaining the...

Engineer Mahmood BalighMinister of Public Works, Government of Islamic Republic of AfghanistanMahmood Baligh was born in 1971 in Daikundi Province. He has a Bachelor of Engineering from Tehran University and a Master of Science in Geo-Technique from AmirKabir University. During his academic...

Laurence Batlle is Chairwoman of the RATP Dev Executive Board, and has sat on the RATP Group Executive Board since 1st January 2017. She joined RATP Dev in 2007 as CFO, and since then has played a major role in defining its strategy and supervising its international growth. She became a member of...

Dr / Eng. G Betru, is the founding General Manager, the current CEO of the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC) a Civil/ Railway Engineer & Chartered Quality Management Professional responsible for the study of an indicative framework of the NRNE including the concept design , surveying and...

Ciro Biderman is a Professor in the graduate and undergraduate programs in public administration and in economics at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV); associated research at the Center for the Study of the Politics and Economics of the Public Sector (CEPESP/FGV); and a research affiliated in the...

Mr Carlo Borghini was appointed Executive Director of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking on 16 February 2016 and is responsible for the overall management of the S2R JU activities.Prior to this posting, Mr Borghini was EDA Corporate Services Director, where he was responsible for the management of...

Petros M. Chronopoulos is a Civil/Structural Engineer currently employed by Deutsche Bahn Engineering & Consulting GmbH (DB-E&C). Since early 2015, he works as a secondee to the Civil Works Department of Qatar Railways Company (Qatar Rail).  He is involved in both technical and project...

Philippe Citroën joined UNIFE in 2011. He began his career as Transport Advisor at the French Permanent Representation to the EU in and then became Member of the Cabinet of the French Transport Minister in 1990. In 1993 he became Manager and Chief of Staff at RATP Paris, and joined the SNCF as...

Simon Daum holds the position of Head of Digital Agenda at Deutsche Bahn AG, one of the leading mobility and logistics corporations of the world. Before that, he held various senior positions within DB, including international passenger transport strategy, international sales and alliance...

Dr. Josef DOPPELBAUER holds a degree and a Doctorate, both in Physics. He started his career at the Alcatel Research Centre in Vienna, Austria, where in 1997 he became Technical Director. In 2001, he moved to Paris to become Chief Technical Officer for Alcatel Transport Automation...

Mr. Youssef Draiss, holds a state Engineer Diploma obtained in 1992 and began his career at the National Agency of Cadastre Land Conservation and Cartography. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Draiss practiced at the Inspectorate General of Territorial Administration Ministry of Interior. Promoted in 2003, he ...

Khaled Nour el Din has more than 28 years of combined experience in Rail freight business, Rail infrastructure projects and maintenance, Rail safety management systems, Accident investigations and Public Transport regulatory roles.Khaled participates in several training programs for safety...

Mr. Joubert Fortes Flores Filho, 58, has extensive experience in transports and people management.  He began his career in Metrô Rio in 1974, having served as electric / mechanics infrastructure and engineering Coordinator.  Nowadays he is the Director of Engineering, Management and...

Sir Peter Hendy, chair, Network RailAppointed to the board: 2015Sir Peter Hendy is the Chairman of Network Rail, having joined in July 2015. Sir Peter was previously commissioner of Transport for London (TfL) in 2006, having served since 2001 as TfL's managing director of surface transport. He...

My career in East Japan Railway Company (JR East) started in 2005 and I have hands-on-experiences in train maintenance and operations control center. After studying human factors in University of Wisconsin in 2013, I worked for three years as a safety researcher of JR East. Now I am assigned to JR...

Charles Abooki Kateeba MSc. (Eng), MUIPE, MSMEKnowledge Areas:Railway Transport management, Public Private Partnership management, Manufacturing and Maintenance engineering, Concession Monitoring, Transport Planning and Development, Supply Chain Management, Training of Trainers, Leadership and Team ...

Niklaus H. Koenig, known as “Mr Maglev” in Switzerland, is the President and CEO of SwissRapide AG as well as Project Director of the SwissRapide Express project.Born in Alberta, Canada, Niklaus Koenig studied Theatre Arts at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Electrical Engineering at the...

Entering the world of public transport with the cross-enterprise project „easyRide“ in 2000, Andreas Kronawitter spent 10 years with SBB as project manager, enterprise architect and manager. By 2010, he left for BLS, Switzerlands second largest railway company. He is responsible for the IT-strategy ...

Stephen Lines FCIOB, FICCP, MCCM Now approaching 40 years of construction industry experience Stephen has worked across all sectors with 15 years main contracting, 15 years client-side, and 10 years with International Consultancies.Stephen employs a practical hands-on approach to the management of...

Nizar “Nick” Madanat, the Senior Director of Rail Vehicle Engineering with Los Angeles Metro, has been working in the rail industry for 27 years and has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Technology Management.  He began his career in...

Dr. Mohammad Montazeri is currently a Lecturer at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) and Deputy Managing Director for Planning and Logistics of Tehran Metro Holding Company. After receiving his Ph.D. from K.U.Leuven and his Post-Doc. from R.U.Gent in Belgium in Industrial...

Henrik Plougmann Olsen, CEOMetroselskabet and Greater Copenhagen Light Rail, DenmarkHenrik Plougmann Olsen is the CEO of Metroselskabet and Greater Copenhagen Light Rail. He has been in the business of public transport for more than 15 years. Prior to his engagement at Metroselskabet he held a...

João Pombo is an Associate Professor in Railway Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK, with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a specialist in railway engineering with 20 years’ experience and has been involved in Research and Development (R&D)...

Eng. Giuseppe Raso is an Electronic Engineer, graduated at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), specialized in Telecommunications and Licensed to superintend Civil and Telco yards, Member of the Italian Engineers National Professionals Register and Member of Saudi Council of Engineers.More than 22 years...

Mr. Mario Roznak established the very first turnout factory in the Middle East, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has been in operation as voestalpine Track Solutions Saudi Arabia LCC since 2012. Apart from managing responsibilities of the turnout factory in Riyadh, Mr. Roznak is also a...

Helmut Scholze is a Partner in the Middle East office of Roland Berger where he leads the Transport & Infrastructure Competence Center. He joined Roland Berger in 2013 after having worked for more than 13 years as lawyer and management consultant in Europe and the Middle East. His clients are...

Ms. Galetlolwe Semenya: Public Private Partnership Railway  Project ManagementI am an avid believer in the value of public transport and have built my career in the Railway industry over 11 years. Subsequently I have gained railway knowledge, technical experience and its corporate financial...

Current job Railways director of southern Iraq from Basra born 1968 graduate of the University of Basra Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1995, has been visiting a number of European and Asian countries for business training and access to rail projects and project Basra Metro.

Mr. Ibraheem Sheerah is a strategic business leader, entrepreneur and PMO specialist with more than 18 years of experience. He is known for his passion for strategy execution and innovativeness. He is a corporate control director at the Saudi Railway Company (SAR). Previously, he was included in...

Mr. Mohamed SialaQualification:    July 1989   BSc. From Electrical and Electronic Department "Telecommunication specialty" Engineering Faculty, Tripoli University -LibyaAfter graduation on 1989 and spending 3years in Export&Import business I joined Oil&Gas sector for 4years...

Howard studied economics at LSE before managing train operations and stations in South and West London. In the 1990s he worked on Channel Tunnel services establishing joint ventures with Belgian and Swiss public and private sector partners. He became Managing Director of one of these joint...

Hired In 1987 at the Moroccan National Railways (ONCF) as an engineer.Occupied several positions such as Opeartions Inspector, Head of the Central Traffic Control, Director of Transport, Central Director of Infrastracture and Traffic and since 2009 he's the Director of the Development...

Sami Syed is a leader in Transport industry for Infrastructure renewals with an experience of over 25 years.  He is a Project Manager with Transport for London, Project managing Infrastructure track renewals on London Underground. Sami started his career in 1989 managing the Track Operations for...

Emmanuel is the Chief Executive Officer of RATP Dev Transdev Asia (RDTA) since 2015. RDTA operates and maintains major rail systems in Asia including the Seoul Metro Line 9, the Mumbai Metro Line 1 and the Hong Kong Tramways, bus networks in China, and is working on new major urban rail O&M...

Vladimir Vladimirov has served as CEO of “BDZ Holding” EAD since November 2014. His career at the company started in October 2009 when he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of “BDZ Holding” EAD. He held this position until April 2013.During this period the structure and operations of the...

Dr. Yang has been working for Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation since 1987.  During construction stage, he was deeply involved in design and construction specification preparation for civil infrastructure and set-up the interface management system.  His major responsibilities include:-...