Distinguished Speaker Series: Nicola Shaw, Chief Executive Officer of High Speed 1

High Speed Rail in the Private Sector - Some Lessons. Bio: Nicola Shaw is CEO of High Speed 1. HS1 Ltd holds the concession to operate, manage and maintain the high-speed railway infrastructure and its stations between London St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel until December 2040.  She was previously a Director of FirstGroup PLC and for the five years to 2010 was Managing Director of the £1.3 billion revenue, 25,000 staff bus division in UK, Ireland and Germany.  Her career has spanned both public and private sector in the UK and abroad.  Before joining FirstGroup Nicola had several regulatory, commercial and operational roles, including positions with the SRA and the ORR, as well as with Bechtel, Halcrow, the World Bank and London Transport.

Nicola is a Non-Executive Director of the Aer Lingus Group plc and a member of the DfT Rail Franchising Panel.  She is also a Trustee of Transaid, an international UK development charity dedicated to reducing poverty across the developing world through better transport.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University and a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

More information on the Speaker Series can be found on the Distinguished Speaker Series webpage.