Clare Moriarty has taken over as Director General, Rail, at the UK’s Department of Transport with effect from January 7, as part of an internal restructuring following the InterCity West Coast refranchising problems. Formerly Director General, Corporate, she served as Acting Permanent Secretary at DfT pending the appointment of Philip Rutnam last year.
UK: Labour MP for Swindon South Heidi Alexander was appointed as Secretary of State for Transport on November 29, following the resignation of Louise Haigh the previous evening. Alexander was MP for Lewisham East from 2010 to 2018, when she stepped down from parliament to become ...
SERBIA: Minister of Construction, Transportation & Infrastructure Goran Vesić resigned on November 5 in the wake of street protests which followed the fatal collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad station. The 35 m concrete canopy on the outer façade of the building collapsed at around ...
EUROPE: Apostolos Tzitzikostas of Greece has been named European Commissioner designate for Sustainable Transport & Tourism. A 46-year old member of the New Democracy party, Tzitzikostas was governor of the Central Macedonia region from 2014, President of the European Committee of the Regions in 2020-22 and ...
