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Mark Wild OBE, FREng has been chief executive of HS2 Ltd since December 2024. 

Mark leads one of the largest infrastructure programmes in the UK – Britain’s newest high-speed railway stretching more than 140 miles between London and Birmingham and employing more than 33,000 people. 

Mark draws on more than 35 years of experience leading complex infrastructure programmes in both public and private sectors in the UK and abroad. 

Mark joined HS2 Ltd from SGN, one of the UK’s largest gas distribution networks, serving 7 million customers in Scotland, southern England and Northern Ireland. Most of his experience has been in operating or building major transport infrastructure, including as managing director of Westinghouse Signals, chief executive of Public Transport Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), and managing director of London Underground – one of the oldest and largest metro systems in the world with more than 1 billion journeys a year and 20,000 employees. He has a proven track record of transformational change on some of the largest and most complex projects around the world. 

As chief executive of Crossrail Ltd (2018 to 2022) in London, a £20 billion programme building one of the world’s most advanced high-frequency passenger rail services, he led a rescue and recovery of the programme following earlier cost and schedule delays in 2018. This included rebuilding the organisation, completing construction and integrating it into one of the most successful new operating railways in the world – now known as the Elizabeth line. 

Mark puts safety and sustainability at the heart of his work, and is passionate about helping develop a new and diverse generation of engineers to lead the industry. 

Mark grew up in Durham in the North East of England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has a first-class engineering degree and an MBA from Leeds University.