SIR PETER HENDY CBE - CHAIRMAN, NETWORK RAIL

When Sir Peter Hendy CBE was appointed chairman of Network Rail in July 2015, he had completed more than ten years of dedicated and distinguished service to the capital - first as Transport for London’s managing director of Surface Transport (2001-2006), and then as TfL’s commissioner.

It was in the latter role that he led and prepared for the successful operation of London’s transport system in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which earned him a knighthood in 2013.

Peter’s skills and experience were then deployed on the national stage when he joined NR in July 2015, where his first task was to conduct a review into the organisation’s troubled programme of investment for Control Period 5.

The subsequent overhaul of NR’s enhancement portfolio ensured NR stayed within its funding envelope, while four years later Hendy would help to secure a record £48 billion from government for CP6.

An owner of an original London Routemaster bus, Peter was formerly deputy director of UK Bus for FirstGroup and managing director of CentreWest London Buses, after starting his transport career in 1975 as a London Transport graduate trainee.

As well as his day-to-day work, Peter supports the Railway Children and London Poppy Day charities and is a trustee of London’s Transport Museum and the Science Museum Group.

He is also chairman of the London Legacy Development Corporation and the London Freight Enforcement Partnership and president of the London Bus Museum.

Peter is international president for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transport and the Institute of Civil Engineers.

He holds honorary doctorates from City University, the University of Leeds, the University of Bath and Queen Mary University of London.