Mike Adkin is a chartered civil engineer with over twenty years experience on major UK rail programmes including HS1, HS2 and fourteen years on Crossrail. He held roles as head of contract management on Crossrail (2009 to 2010) and HS2 (2012 to 2013).

His specific area of interest is the development of tools and processes to both inform strategic and tactical decision making, and to manage the flows of information up and down the supply chain on mega infrastructure programmes. Between 2011 and 2013, the author adopted systems developed at Crossrail, to successfully support the start of the HS2 programme.