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Julian Worth has spent 43 years in the rail freight industry in a wide variety of roles, including Managing Director, Transrail Freight, and Marketing Director, English Welsh & Scottish Railway. He now works with a range of organisations in the private and public sectors, providing strategic advice on rail-based logistics. He also writes on rail freight matters and speaks at conferences in the UK and abroad, with a particular emphasis on supply chain decarbonisation and modal shift. Julian is Chair of the CILT Rail Freight Forum and is a member of the Freight & Logistics and Strategic Rail Policy Groups, plus the Public Policy Committee. He is a Fellow of the Institute.
Maggie Simpson is Director General of the Rail Freight Group, the representative body for rail freight in the UK. Since joining in 2005 she has worked to promote growth in rail freight and to support member companies of the Group in their activities. She is also a Trustee of the Railway Benefit Fund.
Jorge is an Engineer who has been in the Railways industry for more than 28 years, he directed railways and mobility projects in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Germany, and the United States. He has worked for companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Bombardier, and Siemens.
Currently Jorge is vice president of Deutsche Bahn ECO North America, where he has been supporting California High Speed Rail Authority implementing the nation's first high speed rail program among other projects in the USA and Canada.
Prof Andrew McNaughton is Professorial Fellow of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Southampton and Chair of Network Rail (High Speed) Ltd, the infrastructure manager and operator of the HS1 railway. He acts as independent Advisor to the UK Government on cost efficiency of electrification and the Transpennine Upgrade programme.
From 2009 to 2018, Andrew led the operational, engineering and environmental design and specification of HS2 and acted as Principal Witness in Parliament. He was Chair of the World Inter City & High Speed Rail Committee 2016-19.
Andrew developed a 40 year Fastrail Strategy for the New South Wales Government and acts as Strategic Advisor to the Governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia on new line and conventional route upgrade development.
Andrew is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham for Asset Management and lectures at Cambridge University on client impacts on capital cost.
Between 2000 and 2009, Andrew was Chief Engineer of Network Rail and chaired its renewals and enhancement investment panels. He chaired the EU Rail Research Advisory Council, the European Rail Infrastructure Forum and was Vice Chair of the EU Transport Advisory Group. His railway career started in 1973.
Edgar Keller is the President of ABB’s Traction division. He joined ABB in 1982 and has been leading the Traction business since 2004. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the ABB Technikerschule and an additional education in business administration from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne.
Max Linier is the project leader of the Diesel phase-out program for rail at the German national railway company Deutsche Bahn AG.
After a decade leading alternative drive projects at Daimler AG, such as the production of the hydrogen storage system for the Mercedes-Benz GLC F-Cell, the electric drivetrain and the battery storage system for Mercedes-Benz eVito, eSprinter and EQV.
Max decided 3 years ago to use his skills to help decarbonising the rail sector. Within the Diesel phase-out program he advances the scaling of alternative fuels like HVO and also works on predevelopment projects with for example hydrogen combustion engines.
Professor Stuart Hillmansen is an Professor in Railway Traction Systems within the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He completed a PhD in Imperial College London. His main area of research interest is in traction systems for use in railway vehicles, and modeling and measurement of energy consumption for railway systems (both AC and DC). His team have developed the 1st Hydrogen Fueled locomotive in the UK, and is currently heavily involved in the industry’s efforts to decarbonise.
Mark is the Managing Director of Great Western Railway.
Starting his career at Reading station in 1989 he worked for British Rail, Railtrack and several train operators including Thames Trains, First North Western, c2c, Silverlink, Gatwick Express and WAGN.
Appointed to the MD’s post at First Great Western in 2008, Mark initially had to work to restore punctuality and reliability which had fallen substantially prior to his arrival as well as addressing some serious financial challenges. He worked with government to build the case to add substantial carriages to the business to address capacity shortages.
He subsequently worked collaboratively with the DFT and Network Rail to develop the enhancements to support the introduction of new electric trains, the Crossrail project, substantial rebuilding of key stations including Reading. He steered the business through substantial change as the railway has seen delivery of these projects and substantial quantities of new rolling stock have been put in to use on GWR to benefit customers with existing rolling stock often retained and cascaded to support other parts of the business. This work culminated in the delivery the December 2019 timetable which added frequency and reduce journey times on most GW routes.
He was asked to step across to sister business, South Western Railway, in 2020 to address serious performance, partnership and contractual issues and returned to GWR in January 2021 having addressed the key SWR issues.
Mark has worked in UK Rail for over thirty years and has experience at the front line and in more strategic roles. He has chaired the UK rail industry National Task Force and sits on the Rail Delivery Group Planning & Production Board.
He was awarded a CBE in the 2021 New Years Honours List, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Fellow of Institute of Railway Operators. Mark holds other honorary posts within the heritage and mainline railway community.
Aleksander Wołowiec is the Deputy Director of Railway Subprogramme Strategy & Planning, Design & Engineering Department at Centralny Port Komunikacyjny. He is responsible for building relations with internal and external railway stakeholders involved in the CPK Project. He’s also coordinating cooperation with the key organisations of the Polish and European railway sector. Under previous capacities he worked for Polish national rail infrastructure manager and public administration at national and European level.
Dr. Matias Sevel Rasmussen is the Signal Systems and R&D Manager at The Copenhagen Metro. He is currently responsible for the Transportation System part (rolling stock, railway infrastructure including all systems and the depot) of the new M5 metro line in Copenhagen. Prior to that he was leading the re-signalling investigation of lines M1-M2 and leading the design of other capacity increasing solutions. During design, testing and commissioning of the newer M3 circular line and the M4 line, he was involved from the client side. His responsibilities also include the company’s participation in various R&D projects, and he is a member of the UITP Automated Metros Platform. Formerly, he has been working with advanced decision support algorithms in routing and scheduling software systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark in operations research. He has a M.Sc. degree in computer science and a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen.
Markus Ossberger, 53, brings over 20 years of expertise as an infrastructure manager in urban transport. With a background in civil engineering and a doctorate, he progressed through roles at Wiener Linien's Infra division. His journey culminated as Head of Construction and Facilities Management, overseeing 1400 employees and a 10-billion-euro portfolio until the early 2030s. Now, as #InfraManager, he's charting innovative paths in the transport and railway sector.
Corentin in the Head of Rail Unit in UITP’s Knowledge & Innovation Department. The Rail Unit oversees the Association’s global Metro, Light Rail and Regional & Suburban Railways Divisions. Corentin is active also in other groups and initiatives involving operators, organising authorities and the supply industry, reflecting the multi-stakeholder composition of the UITP’s membership. He joined UITP in 2010 from a background in communications and journalism.