Sanjiv Garg, IRTS, Former Additional Member, Railway Board. Earlier assignments: Chief Operations Manager & Chief Commercial Manager,

Northern Railway; Advisor (Safety), Railway Board; Divisional Railway Manager, East Coast Railway; Executive Director, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited. Initiated large scale infrastructure expansion works which resulted in doubling of freight loading capacity on Khurda Road division on East Coast Railway, and implemented institution of “Gate Mitra” (as Advisor Safety, Railway Board) which drastically reduced unmanned level crossing accidents as also consequential accidents and casualties.

MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics; MBA, MDI, Gurgaon; Diploma in Multimodal Transport Management, Belgium; Chevening Gurukul Scholar at London School of Economics and Political Science; M. Phil(Social Science). Fellow, Institute of Rail Transport; Vice Chairman, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport – India and earlier its Secretary-General. Executive Management Programme at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, in 2016.

Author of research publications including articles in Railway Gazette International (2008), Rail Transport Journal (2017), and India Infrastructure Report- 2009 (OUP); speaker at international conferences (Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Geneva, Illinois, Montreal, Manchester, Shijiazhuang, etc.), and several international conferences within India. Recipient of Railway Minister’s Gold Medal and General Manager’s Award on Indian Railways.