Andy Byford CV

Andy Byford joined London Underground as a graduate trainee in 1989. He was soon a duty station manager.

By 1996, he was station operations manager for the Jubilee Line extension.

From 2003-06, he was operations director for Southeastern Trains, and from 2006-09 operations director for Southern Railway.

Byford then left the UK to become chief operating officer with RailCorp in New South Wales, Australia.

In 2011, he joined Toronto Transit Corporation in Canada, later becoming chief executive.

In 2017, he became president of the New York City Transit Authority, with a brief to modernise the subway network. He was popular, earning the nickname ‘Train Daddy,’ but encountered political resistance and resigned in early 2020.

He was appointed commissioner of Transport for London shortly afterwards, replacing Mike Brown as London’s most senior transport official.