Nicola Shaw

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Nicola Shaw

CBE
Education Croydon High School
The King's School, Canterbury
Alma mater University of Oxford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employer Yorkshire Water

Nicola Shaw CBE is the chief executive officer at Yorkshire Water. She has previously held roles as the executive officer at National Grid, the chief executive of High Speed 1, and director of FirstGroup. She was appointed a CBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2015.

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Education

Shaw attributes her fascination with transport to her father, a stockbroker who commuted to London Bridge from Oxted in Surrey. [1] She attended Croydon High School and The King's School, Canterbury. [1] Shaw studied History and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford. [1] [2] In 1995 she completed a Master of Science in Transportation degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] [3] [4]

Career

Shaw joined Transport for London in 1990. [1] She was partly responsible for the Stratford bus station, the first not to be constructed of red brick. [1] [5] Shaw then completed a master's degree in interdepartmental transport at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [4] The program focused on civil engineering, the importance of transport and teamwork. [6] In 1995 Shaw joined World Bank. [4] She worked at Halcrow Group, where she advised Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia on transport projects. She returned to the UK in 1999, where she was deputy chief economist and director of Access, Competition and Licensing at the Office of the Rail Regulator. [4] In 2002 she joined Bechtel to lead business development. [7]

In 2003 she was appointed managing director of operations at the Strategic Rail Authority, where she was responsible for the contractual negotiations between the government and private sector train operators. [4] [7] She joined FirstGroup in 2005, where she was managing director of the bus division. [7] [4] From 2005 to 2010, she was responsible for 25,000 staff in the bus division and £1.3 billion revenue. [8]

Between 2010 and 2015 she was a non-executive director of Aer Lingus. [8] In 2011 she became chief executive of High Speed 1, where she transformed the project from construction into a long-term business. [9] Shaw was responsible for customer relations, including St Pancras railway station and Stratford International station. [6]

In the 2015 Summer Budget she was tasked to write a report on how to "fix Network Rail". [10] [11] She published the Shaw Report in 2016, which made several recommendations for the future of British Transport: [12] [13]

Patrick McLoughlin said publicly that he "welcomes Ms Shaw’s suggestions". [15] [14] When asked by Rail Professional what it was like to be a woman working on the railway, Shaw replied "I have no idea what it's like to be a woman in this industry because I've always been one and I've always been in transport ... People do ask that question but if I asked you what is it like to be a man in the rail industry, you would give me the same answer, I think." [3]

In March 2016 Shaw was appointed executive director at National Grid plc. [16] [9] She is interested in how the patterns of energy use are changing, and was working on improving transparency and efficiency in energy balance and the transmissions network (National Grid). [17] She is working with DeepMind to use Artificial intelligence in the future of Utilities. [17] She worked to improve diversity at National Grid plc, where 30% of senior management are women. [18] In May 2022, she was appointed as the chief executive officer of Yorkshire Water. [19]

Shaw received a CBE for services to transport in the Queen's New Year Honours in 2016. [20] [8] She has been non-executive director of the International Consolidated Airlines Group since January 2018. [21]

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  2. ↑ "Lincoln Leads 2018: How is Technology Shaping the Future?" . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. 1 2 "Rail Professional interview: Nicola Shaw - Rail Professional". www.railpro.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Nicola Shaw Biography" (PDF). MIT. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  5. ↑ "Stratford Bus Interchange - Architen Landrell". Architen Landrell. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  6. 1 2 Dunn, Peter. "High Speed 1 CEO Nicola Shaw, SM '95, Keeps the Trains Running on Time". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  7. 1 2 3 Martinson, Jane (2006-12-01). "Nicola Shaw Busman's holiday for a public transport aficionado". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  8. 1 2 3 "HS1 Chief Executive Nicola Shaw receives CBE (1) | High Speed 1". highspeed1.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
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  10. ↑ Collingridge, John (2015-09-27). "Transport geek wants to show us light at the end of the tunnel". The Sunday Times. ISSN   0956-1382 . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  11. ↑ "Summer Budget 2015 - GOV.UK" . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  12. ↑ "Shaw report: summary of recommendations" (PDF). UK Government. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  13. ↑ "Shaw report: final report and recommendations - GOV.UK" . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  14. 1 2 "Exclusive: HS1 CEO Nicola Shaw on the future of Network Rail". Construction News. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  15. ↑ "Patrick McLoughlin – UKPOL". www.ukpol.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  16. ↑ Ambrose, Jillian (2016-03-23). "National Grid taps HS1 boss Nicola Shaw to be UK director". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  17. 1 2 "Interview: Nicola Shaw CBE on the future of National Grid". www.marketforce.eu.com. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  18. ↑ "Nicola Shaw: I'm proud of all we are doing to improve diversity, but we can't do it alone - Create the Future". Create the Future. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  19. ↑ Ungoed-Thomas, Jon (21 August 2022). "England's highly paid water bosses rake it in from lucrative second jobs". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  20. ↑ Lee, Rebecca. "New Year's Honours for transport". www.ciht.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  21. ↑ "Nicola Shaw: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
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