Rachel has been the Crossrail Principal Sponsor at DfT since August 2022, with responsibility for overseeing the completion of the final critical stages of delivery and the close out of the project, including ensuring that lessons learned from Crossrail are shared with other government major projects and programmes.
Rachel is a Chartered Project Professional with a Masters in Transport Engineering and Planning and is experienced in delivering rail and highway infrastructure schemes. Prior to joining the Crossrail project, she was the DfT Programme Client for major rail enhancements on the East Coast Main Line. Between 2005 and 2017, she worked at TfL, clienting and sponsoring bus priority, urban realm and road safety schemes. In her last role at TfL, she led a team sponsoring the delivery of a number of major highway transformation projects across London.
