{"id":74043,"date":"2016-09-11T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a08b4d4da367d1e23057c8caa79168b3"},"modified":"2016-09-11T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T09:19:00","slug":"news-story-a-statement-from-hs2-chairman-david-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74043","title":{"rendered":"News story: A statement from HS2 chairman, David Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Responding to the announcement that Simon Kirby is to join Rolls Royce as Chief Operating Officer, the chairman of HS2, David Higgins, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted for both Simon and Rolls Royce that he has been appointed to this position. Whilst naturally we will miss his experience and leadership, I also recognise that he is joining a truly great, global company in an industry in which he has previously worked.<\/p>\n<p>In his two and half years with the company, Simon has used his vast experience to recruit and shape a world class team which over the coming years and decades will turn HS2 into a reality that will be of lasting benefit to this country.<\/p>\n<p>That team will continue that process as we start and complete the process of finding Simon\u2019s successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am also delighted to be able to announce today the appointment of Mel Ewel, formerly Chief Executive of Amey, as a Non Executive Director. His great experience in the construction industry speaks for itself, as does the huge respect in which he is held. As such he will be a great asset to the Board\u2019s deliberations as we move to the point of  construction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Simon Kirby said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">HS2 is not just a highly ambitious project, but also one which will leave a lasting legacy for Britain. It has been, therefore, a huge honour to have been its Chief Executive and to have been involved in creating a leadership team made up of the best talents from this country and elsewhere. I have absolute confidence in their ability to deliver the project and, in doing so, to help transform the way we do things in this country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 Chairman, David Higgins&#8217; statement regarding HS2 CEO, Simon Kirby, leaving to join Rolls Royce, and appointment of Mel Ewel to HS2&#8217;s Board.<\/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\/74043"}],"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=74043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}