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Dr Michѐle Dix CBE

Dr Michѐle Dix CBE FICE has 47 years’ experience in transport in the public and private sector. At Transport for London she developed and delivered the Central London Congestion Charging Scheme with her job share partner. As the managing director for planning she was responsible for London wide strategies and policies and developing major schemes. Most recently she was the managing director of Crossrail 2.

Today Michѐle is a non-executive director of the Major Projects Association, a non-exec on Crossrail International, a visiting professor at UCL, programme board member for the restoration and renewal of the Houses of Parliament and an ICE Policy Fellow. Michѐle is chair of the ICE Connects: Women in Fellowship focus group and was appointed a UK Infrastructure Commissioner in 2023.

Andy Mitchell CBE

Andy has been the CEO of Tideway, the company responsible for the Thames Tideway Tunnel, since 2014.

He joined the project from Crossrail where he was Programme Director and a Board member. He has worked around the world, including on developments such as Hong Kong Airport and Hong Kong West Rail. He also held senior roles at Network Rail, including Project Director of the Southern Power Upgrade project and Senior Programme Director of the Thameslink Programme. Andy is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers, and former Chair of the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Platform (i3P) and Infrastructure Client Group (ICG). He was also the Co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council from 2018 to June 2022 and in 2020 he was named Personality of the Year at the Building Awards in recognition of his efforts working with government to prepare for Brexit and to support the industry through the Covid-19 pandemic. Andy was honoured with a CBE for Services to Civil Engineering in 2015. He is the Chair of London Youth Rowing, a youth engagement charity and longstanding partner of Tideway.

Yuli Doulala-Rigby

Yuli Rigby-Doulala started her career in geotechnics in 1995, working as a graduate engineer on the Jubilee Line extension project. After spending almost a decade in Hong Kong as a geotechnical engineer, she returned to the UK and joined Tensar, a specialist in ground stabilisation and soil reinforcement, in 2006.

She initially took overall responsibility for the firm’s eastern hemisphere design team. More recently, she has focused on developing the business and educating the industry about the benefits of geosynthetics in construction.

An ICE Fellow, Rigby-Doulala became chair of the British Geotechnical Association in June 2025.