{"id":54185,"date":"2015-02-23T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e69d4101ff6263f4603741fe1f772e12"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:56:00","slug":"press-release-new-non-executive-director-appointed-to-hs2-ltd-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54185","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New non-executive director appointed to HS2 Ltd board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd has welcomed a new non-executive director to its board as the project to build Britain\u2019s new high speed rail network moves towards construction.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Mountford has been appointed by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin.<\/p>\n<p>Roger is a former member of the Board of the Civil Aviation Authority as well as Chair of The Housing Finance Corporation, which raises long term funds to finance social housing.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently Chairman of HgCapital trust plc, an independent trustee of several pension schemes, and a member of the Council of the London School of Economics. <\/p>\n<p>Commenting, <abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd Chairman David Higgins said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> will soon become one of Europe\u2019s largest infrastructure projects and we need Board Members who understand the complex  technical, financial and community background to the project. Roger has the experience we need and I am delighted to welcome him to the Board.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reacting to his appointment, Roger Mountford said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> promises to transform long distance rail travel and provide a powerful catalyst to British industry and the northern economy. I am delighted to take up this new position on <abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd\u2019s Board as we start to move towards construction in two years time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_2441\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Public enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk\">hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"high speed two\">HS2<\/abbr> Ltd helpdesk<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4908\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1021\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>High speed rail media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3068\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 Ltd has welcomed a new non-executive director to its board as the project to build Britain\u2019s new high speed rail network moves towards construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54199,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions\/54199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}