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Samer Ali

Director, Transportation (Highways & Rail)

Samer Ali

United Kingdom

With over 23 years’ experience in large-scale project delivery across the UK, the Middle East and North America, and a PhD in Geotechnics, Samer leads our Highways and Rail portfolio. Using his experience in programme delivery and building high performing teams, he aligns our technical expertise to each client’s requirements and acts as a senior point of contact through design and delivery.

A practiced CEng, FICE and PMP leader, Samer has held senior leadership roles on major transportation and aviation schemes, including Portmann Highway 1, HS2, Heathrow and the Doha Metro. His interests explore how digital engineering, data-led decision-making and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) can improve safety, programme certainty and whole-life value for asset owners, maintainers and road/rail users. 

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Digital engineering – spanning data-led design, BIM, digital twins, automation and modern construction methods – is boosting safety, reducing disruption and increasing cost and schedule certainty across road and rail programmes. At the same time, rapidly evolving Intelligent Transport Systems are using real-time data, AI driven traffic management and connected infrastructure to lay the foundations for automated mobility. This is an exciting time for our industry, as these technologies converge to create smarter, more resilient and more user centred transport networks.

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