People: MTR Corp Ltd (0066.HK)

Mr. Jay Herbert Walder is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MTR Corporation Ltd since 1 January 2012. Mr. Walder worked in the rail industry, both in England and in the United States, for over 20 years. Before joining the Company, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the United States. Between 2001 and 2007, Mr. Walder was the Managing Director, Finance and Planning, of Transport for London. From 2007 to 2009, he was Partner at McKinsey & Company, London. Mr. Walder holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton, Harpur College, and a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also completed the Executive Programme in Strategic Leadership from Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Mr. Walder is on the Board of Advisors of the Taubman Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mr. Walder was on the Executive Committee of the American Public Transit Association (APTA) and the Executive Board of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).