Mark Wild
SGN’s CEO Mark Wild OBE has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was recognised for his role leading complex and important infrastructure projects, including the completion of Crossrail.
Mark joins 72 other leading figures in the field of engineering and technology who have been elected to the Fellowship, including physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE and Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE, the co-founder of Lastminute.com.
While Mark initially trained as an electrical engineer, his career has spanned a series of complex and critical infrastructure projects, mostly in transportation.
As CEO of Crossrail, he led Europe’s biggest construction project and saw it through to the successful opening of the Elizabeth Line in May 2022. He’d previously been Managing Director of the London Underground. His leadership in operating and building major transportation infrastructure also includes his roles as former Managing Director of Westinghouse Signals and CEO of Public Transport Victoria.
Talent and skills for the future
Mark said: “It’s an honour to be elected as a Fellow and I’m really looking forward to supporting the Academy’s important work to develop talent and skills for the future, and spearheading innovation to create positive change.”
Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: “Engineering is everywhere, but nowhere the same, and our new Fellows represent the great breadth and diversity of engineers who are striving to address some of the world’s most complex challenges – benefiting society and the economy in the process.”
The Royal Academy of Engineering is focused on harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
This year’s new Fellows continue to reflect the Academy’s ongoing Fellowship Fit for the Future initiative announced in July 2020, to drive more nominations of outstanding engineers from underrepresented groups ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2026.
The group consists of 60 Fellows, eight International Fellows and five Honorary Fellows, each of whom has made exceptional contributions to their own sector, pioneering new innovations, leading progress in business or academia, providing high level advice to government, or promoting wider understanding of engineering and technology.
The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a special ceremony in London on 28 November.
