Lead Director
Great British Railways Transition Team
Anit Chandarana is currently Chief of Staff at Network Rail and is working with Andrew Haines and the team on the interim arrangements for the railway following the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail In May 2021. He also led Network Rail’s involvement in the building of the white paper. Anit has worked in the rail industry for over 18 years and joined Network Rail after completing his training at Sainsbury’s, he then went on to spend five years at Shell where he worked in the retail part of the business in finance. As well as his full-time role, he is also a Non-Executive Director for East London NHS Foundation Trust and was previously a Non-Executive for PWI for two years, he has also Chaired the Trustee Board for two of Network Rail’s pension schemes.