Keynote Speakers

Adding to the CORE 2010 programme, our two keynote presenters; Mike Roney of Canadian Pacific and Andrew McNaughton of High Speed Two Limited – two of the world’s leading railway engineers – will each present a 60 minute plenary session.

Andrew McNaughton

Andrew McNaughton is Chief Engineer of High Speed Two Ltd and Special Professor of Rail Engineering at Nottingham University. He has been engaged in railway engineering and management since 1973. His first twenty years in British Rail were engaged in maintenance, renewal and upgrade of both main line and rural railways, including leading the introduction of steel sleeper relaying and development of new maintenance techniques. In 1993 he was appointed Head of Production and then subsequently Director, Great Western for Railtrack. In 2001 he became Chief Engineer, tasked with creating, for Network Rail, an engineering function which includes all rail system disciplines including human performance.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Past President of the Permanent Way Institution. In Europe he is Vice Chairman of the Transport Advisory Group to the EU Commission, Chairman of the International Railway Union (UIC) Infrastructure Forum and Chairman of the European Rail Research Advisory Council.

Michael Roney

Michael Roney is General Manager – Technical Standards and Chief Engineer with Canadian Pacific, where he is responsible for track standards, rail maintenance, bridge design, geotechnical groups and automated track inspection processes. He has been with Canadian Pacific in engineering and maintenance-of-way since 1981. He has also worked with the National Research Council of Canada as General Manager of their Rail Division, with BHP’s Melbourne Research Labs and with Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, where he has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering.

Michael is current Chairman of the International Heavy Haul Association and Chair of the Canadian Railway Research Advisory Board. He is a past president of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association.