After an extensive national recruitment process, the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has announced that the ARA Board has endorsed Lucio Di Bartolomeo as the new chair of the ARA. Lucio’s formal appointment will be endorsed at the ARA AGM to be held in late November.
Lucio has been a full-time Non Executive Director (NED) for 18 years including as chair of Australia Post, Northwest Rapid Transport, Australian Naval Infrastructure, Health Infrastructure NSW and Macquarie Generation. He has also held NED roles with Australian Super, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, Downer EDI and Moorebank Intermodal Company.
Prior to commencing NED roles Lucio was the Managing Director of ADI/Thales Australia’s leading defence, systems and engineering contractor. Before his appointment to ADI in 2002, Lucio had a 26-year career in the transport industry.
From 1986 to 2002 Lucio held a number of senior management positions that put him at the forefront of rail industry reform including holding the positions of group general manager of FreightRail and CityRail before finishing as managing director of FreightCorp.
Most recently Lucio was appointed by the New South Wales Government to an independent advisory panel to oversee the NSW Freight Policy Reform Program.
Lucio is a qualified Civil Engineer and has a Master’s degree in Engineering Science. Lucio will be attending AusRAIL where he said he looks forward to meeting with industry.
