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Richard Bowker

CEO, Union Railway‎

Appointed CEO of Union Railway in 2009, Richard has a 20 year career in the railway industry having worked in ‎both the public and private sectors. He has held high-level positions in the UK at London Underground and Virgin ‎Rail, and was for a time the Group Commercial Director for the Virgin Group of Companies with specific ‎responsibility for transport. He was appointed the Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2001 by the then ‎Secretary of State for Transport in the UK Government, and most recently held the role of Group Chief Executive ‎of National Express Group Plc, one of the world’s leading international transport businesses. A Fellow of the ‎Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Logistics and Transport, he was ‎awarded the CBE by HM Queen Elizabeth in 2005 for services to the railway industry.

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