Michael Howell

An engineer by training, Michael Howell has a background in transportation and worked in the UK motor industry after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge and before completing MBAs at INSEAD and Harvard. He worked with Cummins Engine Company and General Electric Company (GE) in the USA, latterly as General Manager of GE Transportation Systems, the world’s largest manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. Subsequently, he was an Executive Director of Railtrack Group plc at the time of its 1997 privatisation. Formerly he was a Non-Executive Director of Hutchison China Meditech Limited, the innovative biopharmaceutical company. Currently, Michael serves on the Board of Wabtec, the US$8bn leading supplier of products and systems for the rail industry, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.