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Miguel Valero
Miguel Valero has been appointed President of Canarail, succeeding Jim D Spielman who will remain as a Special Advisor to the President.
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Pierre Tonon
Pierre Tonon will take over as Secretary-General of the European Rail Freight Alliance on October 1, succeeding Monika Heiming who is moving to infrastructure managers’ association EIM. Tonon is currently Head of Safety for Belgian rail freight operator SNCB Logistics.
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Vinay Mittal
Vinay Mittal has taken over as Chairman of Indian Railways and Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Railways following the retirement of Vivek Sabai. He was formerly General Manager of the South Eastern Railway, having held a variety of posts in IR’s Traffic Service since 1975, including Chief Operations ...
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New team in place at DSB
DENMARK: Two new board members will take up their posts at DSB this month as the national passenger operator restructures its management team following the recent financial problems at its DSBFirst joint venture. DSB announced last month that Christian Roslev (pictured) would be joining the board on August and ...
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Fiona Tordoff
Fiona Tordoff is to become Chief Executive of the Institution of Railway Operators next month, following the retirement of Chris Daughton who has led the IRO for 10 of its 11 years in existence.
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Dinesh Trivedi
Dinesh Trivedi has been appointed as Minister of Railways in India, succeeding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who had been acting minister for two months following the departure of Mamata Banerjee to become Chief Minister of West Bengal in May.
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Debra Johnson
Debra Johnson has been named acting Executive Director & CEO of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, following the resignation of Nathaniel Ford on June 30.
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Mark Langman
Mark Langman has been designated Route Managing Director for Network Rail’s new Wales Route, which is to be established in October with a local headquarters in Cardiff (RG 4.11 p28). He was previously Route Director for NR’s Western Route, which included Wales.
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Dr Uwe Kruegerhas
Dr Uwe Kruegerhas been appointed CEO of Atkins with effect from August 1. He succeeds Keith Clarke who will stay on in the role of Sustainability Director.
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PM takes over Ministry
India: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (left) has temporarily taken over as Minister of Railways, following Mamata Banerjee’s resignation on May 19 to become West Bengal Chief Minister. Singh’s office now handles all rail projects worth more than Rs1bn and has taken responsibility for higher administrative grade appointments. Minister ...
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Restructuring at Alstom
FRANCE: From July 4 Alstom will implement a major reorganisation recommended by Chairman & CEO Patrick Kron, including the creation of the new position of Deputy CEO, which has been filled by Philippe Joubert. Alstom’s operational activities will be split into four sectors: Thermal Power, Renewable Power, Grid, ...
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Thomas Umberghas
Thomas Umberghas been elected to succeed Curt Pringle as Chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Tom Richards and Lynn Schenk were selected as Vice-Chairmen, in Schenk’s case for a second term. CEO Roelof van Ark has also announced the appointments of Christopher Ryan as Chief of Staff and ...
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Matthias Kurth
Matthias Kurth, President of Germany’s Bundesnetz-agentur, was elected as the first Chairman of the IRG-Rail group of independent railway regulators at its inaugural Plenary Assembly in Den Haag on June 9. ORR Chair Anna Walker from the UK has been elected as Vice-Chair.
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Philippe Citroën
Philippe Citroën,CEO of Systra, has been appointed Director General of Unife from July 1, succeeding Michael Clausecker.
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Dominique Perben
Dominique Perben, a former French transport minister, has been nominated for the post of Chairman of transport infrastructure financing agency Aftif by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Dr Markus Hunkel
Dr Markus Hunkel, Senior Vice-President, Strategy, at DB Schenker Rail, will become Operations Director on June 1 following the resignation of Dr Christian Kuhn.
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Andreas Willich
Andreas Willich, Deputy Director of Long Distance Traffic at SBB, has been named Head of Passenger Transport at Swiss operator BLS.
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Mosenngwa Mofi
Mosenngwa Mofi has been appointed CEO of South African operator Prasa, a new position in which he will be responsible for Metrorail suburban and Shosholoza Meyl inter-city services. He was previously CEO of the Railway Safety Regulator.