The future of rail in Asia

Catherine Baxter is Chief Operating Officer at Metro Trains Melbourne. Catherine and her team are responsible for operating metropolitan passenger services safely including Train Operations, Passenger Experience, OCMS, Rollingstock and Infrastructure Asset Management.  In this role she leads a...

Muhammad Effendi is currently an Operation and Maintenance Director of PT MRT Jakarta since October 26, 2018 and has experience in construction management in the oil and gas sector, business development, and Occupational Health and Safety, for 30 years. He was appointed as the Head of Project...

As Chief Information Security Officer at Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA), Shao Fei spearheads the cybersecurity programme across land transport. He is also concurrently Director for Cybersecurity and Director for Data Science at LTA. Prior to joining LTA, Shao Fei had served in...

Dr. Padet Praditphet, born on January 9, 1963 in Nonthaburi, Thailand is  Doctor of Philosophy (Chulalongkorn University 2007), and Director of the Common Ticketing Administration Office, Office of Transport Policy & Planning, Ministry of Transport Thailand since 2012. Prior to this, he was...

Dr Rai has 34 years of experience in the rail sector, operating in a government domain. He is well-versed in technology in rail systems and also plays a dual role as Electrical Inspector to the Indian Government.He holds a Doctorate in Engineering, with interest in modeling, sustainable...

Nick has a background in trying to make passenger rail more attractive through both improved service and cheaper price. Previously, he was Head of EU Affairs at Trainline, Europe’s leading digital rail retail platform. Prior to that, he was employed as Head of Sales & Business Development at...

Prof. Nalinaksh S. Vyas has been at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since 1987 and also currently functions the Chairman of the Technology Mission for Indian Railways, for the Government of India. The current major areas of activities include implementation of Industry 4.0 protocols for...

Punit is Chief Project Manager (Systems) at National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd., an organisation entrusted with the development of a high speed network in India. At present Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed corridor is under construction with equity participation of the central and state...

Pierre Gosset is the Chief Technical Officer of SYSTRA Group. He is a member of Systra’s Executive Board. As part of his responsibilities, he oversees all technical activities including the Innovation and Digital development of SYSTRA Group in the new mobility field. Pierre has 25 years of...

Mr Chia Choon Poh is Deputy Group Director of Rail Assets, Operations & Maintenance of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore.  He is also Director of Rolling Stock & Depot as well as Chief Specialist, Rolling Stock & Depot Equipment.

Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., is an urban strategist. He is a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences in their Fintech and Blockchain group.  In 2017, he co-founded Iomob, a Mobility as a Service software company seeking to decentralize the mobility sector by providing an open protocol for the...

Rifkiandi Darajatun is the Head of Project Management Office (PMO) Division at PT MRT Jakarta since January 2018. His division manages the quality management system, contractual, cost and schedule aspects of various contract packages (civil works and railway systems) of MRT Jakarta Construction...

Dr Klebsch is a physicist and engineer. For 20 years he worked as a developer, project leader and manager at Siemens in the field of mobile phones until he joined the VDE in 2006. On behalf of federal ministries, he leads consortium projects with systemic-technical backgrounds. Since 2017, he...

Gerhard Kreß is responsible for Data services in Siemens Mobility, building up new customer offerings enabled by data analytics for both rail vehicles and infrastructure. In this function, Gerhard Kreß is responsible globally for the “Mindsphere Application Centers” for rail.Before that he was in...

Caroline Sapriel is the founder and Managing Partner of CS&A, a specialist risk and crisis and business continuity management consulting firm with offices in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Belgium, The Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States. With over 25 years’ experience in risk and...

Christian Schlehuber studied informatics and IT-Security at the TU Darmstadt with a specialization in critical infrastructures. After receiving his master degree he started to research at the Security Engineering Group of TU Darmstadt on the topic Critical Infrastructure Protection in 2013. In 2015 ...

Suffering from a heavy hearing loss, Fabian learned early, that success needs focus and a strong team – both on and off the basketball court. He is a passionate, empathetic leader with a natural ability to think strategically and in a cross-functional, holistic manner. As a thought leader Fabian...

I have done Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad and am currently working as a Director level Officer in Indian Railways in a leadership position, leading a workforce of about 2000 as Group “A” Gazetted Officer of the Indian Railways in Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot at Guwahati. I have been...

Mr Jeffrey Sim is Head of Rail Development at SBS Transit, which is a leading bus and rail operator in Singapore. It is also a member of the ComfortDelGro Group which operates in seven countries including Australia and the United Kingdom. As Head of Rail Development, he is responsible for business...

Azmale has 23 years of experienced working in the Rail industry out of 27 years working experience accumulated in total. He started his career with Track Network Maintenance (TNM), Ampang Line in 2001 and has held various capacities since then. Azmale has been entrusted with the position of Head of ...

Peter is an expert in the transportation sector for 30 years. He has degrees in electrical engineering and economic psychology, because for him, technology and people belong together, especially when it comes to digital transformation and the application of artificial intelligence.By living and...

Rikke Carmichael is Head of Air Operations at Network Rail. Her team specialise in data collection from multiple aerial vehicles. The data is used to assist with rail conditions and maintenance and supporting specific company projects. This helps to identify potential problems ahead of failure...

Dr Siv Bhamra is the Global Rail Sector Lead for Bechtel’s Infrastructure business unit. In this role, Siv is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, project performance, and resource allocation on global rail and transit projects.With 30 years of experience, Siv is an internationally...

Mr Chua has more than 30 years of experience in urban land transport infrastructure development and management in Singapore. He was amongst the pioneers involved in the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System projects in Singapore. Mr Chua is currently the Deputy Chief Executive (Infrastructure &...

With nearly 35 years of work experience in Railway/Metro field, I have worked in Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) since 2008 and at present holding the post of Executive Director (Operations & Maintenance), responsibile for the Metro train operations over a route length of 43 kms...

Mr Danny Ho is Head of Rail Projects at SBST, which is a leading bus and rail operator in Singapore. He is responsible for leading projects and organizational initiatives for rail operations and engineering capabilities development. He is also the lead secretariat for rail business expansion...

I belong to 1988 batch of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers. I joined for my first assignment on 21st January,1992. I had worked in various assignments such as maintenance of diesel locomotives, inspection of safety related materials, posting in Ministry of Railways and dealing with...

Tilly Loughborough joined Metro Trains Melbourne as General Manager Passenger Experience in July 2019. With 15 years of global experience, at board-director level, Tilly has an in depth knowledge of public transport operations and a specialism of putting thecustomer at the heart of all...

Mr Vinay Kumar Singh is the Managing Director of NCR Transport Corporation (NCRTC), a JV of Govt of India and 4 NCR State Govts. NCRTC has been mandated to implement first regional rail of India, the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) in the National Capital Region (NCR). Mr Singh is an officer...

Gautier graduated in Civil Engineering from École Spéciale des Travaux Publics and postgraduated in Project Management (MSc) from the University of Birmingham. Looking back on his professional background within the RATP Group, his experience has been built through 4 periods of time. His first...

Kumar Keshav, Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation is leading a team of professionals for implementation of Lucknow Metro, Kanpur Metro, Agra Metro and Meerut Metro from 2014. Kumar Keshav is an officer originally belonging to Indian Railway Service of Engineers and is a...

Naoto Kimura joined Tokyo Metro’s predecessor, Teito Rapid Transit Authority, in 1984.  In his early career, he gained experience in formulating the business plan, as well as rolling stock planning.  After becoming Deputy Manager  in March 1995, his posts included work in railway business...

Yong Bok Lee is an alumnus of Korea National Railroad University and holds a Master of Transportation Economics from Inha University as well as a Ph.D of Business Administration, Woosong University.

Henri Pottier has been Vice-President Asia Pacific for RATP Dev since July 2019. He joined RATP Dev in 2014 as Deputy Director of the Business Unit Asia-Middle East and North Africa and was in charge of the performance of the metro line 9 of Seoul (600,000 daily passengers) from 2017 to 2019. Henri ...

Evan Tattersall has 35 years' experience in construction across many industry sectors including transport and building. His extensive experience working in Melbourne's metropolitan rail environment includes Craigieburn Electrification Project and leading the complex inner city packages on...

Ir. Ian Tsui is the Asia Pacific Regional Director in Wabtec Faiveley Transport. He has over 20 years of experience in the Railway Industry, both on the railway operator side and on the system supplier side. His area of expertise ranges from Engineering, Project Management and Sales &...

Mr. Daniel Weitze (Head of Digital Mobility) is helping the world moving forward.Aiming to increase the quality of life for human beings in smart cities.Since August 2018 – after gaining 15 years of experience in transportation around the globe (Europe, North and South America, Asia) in several...

Marco Gallini graduated in 2000 in civil engineering at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. His experimental thesis concerned the use of elastic waves for the evaluation of the cracking state of tunnels. After an experience as an infrastructure designer, he began his 19 years long...

I am a certified Examiner, Inspector, Auditor for Infrastructure Railways, Auditor for General Work Safety, and an Engineer Indonesia PII member (2017), joining the ASEAN Engineer Register in 2018. I was with the Indonesia Ministry of Transportation in the Port Project division for 17 years, with...

Kin Boon has worked for Land Transport Authority as an engineer and project manager for more than 22 years on mega rail projects.He has vast experience in project and design management in delivering complex engineering projects, particularly underground metro, in highly built up city...

Olivier Rivalta, an engineer with solid experience in urban transport systems, joined Egis Rail in 1998. Since then, he has worked on metro projects (Singapore, Lyon, Alexandria, etc.), LRT projects (Marseille, Dublin, Lyon, Strasbourg, Grenoble, etc.) and Amtrak's High Speed North East...

T C Chew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He is also a fellow of a number of UK professional institutions. He has been involved with the railway and construction industries globally for over 40 years. In January 2017, TC joined Arup London as leader of the ...

Techie Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the renewable energy industry. Skilled in business strategy, market analysis and product commercialisation. Prior starting my venture with Resync, I was working at REC Solar as a New Product Development engineer and commercialised...

Professional career for more than 20 years (both International and local) mainly focused on Railway Signaling (project and construction management), Railway Telecommunication, Building M&E and Maintenance, GIRN and Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) for road traffic signal.The experience includes ...

Frank is a highly competent senior manager in the transport operations & customer service industry, with over 22 years of senior management experience leading and influencing large teams.      He is a proven results-focused problem solver, team-player and communicator at various levels working...