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David Waboso
Science, Medicine & Engineering Managing Director, Digital Railway

at Network Rail

In May 2018, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced
changes to the network that David will lead on. Gradually,
Britain’s signals will be replaced with digital versions so
that drivers get “real-time information” about the location
of other trains and will no longer have to rely on trackside
lights. The programme will work towards introducing
self-driving trains to the network.
David is a chartered engineer and project manager who
has been working on infrastructure and train control
projects for more than 30 years.
Previous roles include senior positions at the Strategic
Rail Authority, The Nichols Group and Bechtel Corporation.
For more than a decade, he was the Capital Programmes
Director at London Underground, where he led on the
£1.5billion annual Tube Upgrade Programme.
David was headhunted by Network Rail in 2016 to be its
managing director of Digital Railway. He is responsible for
a number of projects, including increasing the use of digital
signalling and train control technologies through the Digital
Railway Programme.
He works at the company in challenging times –
passenger numbers have doubled over the past 20 years and
are set to double again over the next 20 years.
Outside of his day job, he is President of the Association
for Project Management and a Fellow of the Royal Academy
Samantha Tross of Engineering, the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

This year Samantha became the first woman in Europe
to be trained in robotic surgery of the hip and knee. She
has continued to use her influence as the first black
female consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the UK on
the international stage, collaborating with orthopaedic
surgeons in Guyana, building on her previous outreach
work and focusing on forming collaborative exchange
programmes.
This past year has also seen Samantha lecture at the
annual conferences of the British Orthopaedic Association,
as well as the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and
Ireland on the ‘Importance of Diversity in Surgery’, focusing
on gender and ethnicity.
A graduate from University College London, followed by
training at Guy’s and St Thomas’s, Samantha is one of a
small but growing number of female orthopaedic surgeons
in the UK. She practises at BMI Clementine Churchill
Hospital, Harrow Bupa Cromwell Hospital and Ealing
Hospital NHS Trust.
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Orthopaedic
Surgeons and member of the British Hip Society, as well
as Fellowship training in lower limb arthroplasty from the
Orthopaedic and Arthritic Institute in Canada and Sydney’s
Peninsula Orthopaedic Institute.
She teaches medical students, is on the examining team
for Imperial College Medical School finals examinations
and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Medical Case
Reports. She has been awarded a Black British Business Icon
Award and Tatler magazine featured her in its prestigious
Doctors’ Guide of the country’s top 250 consultants.

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