Shaw attributes her fascination with transport to her father, a stockbroker who commuted to London Bridge from Oxted in Surrey.
[1][5] Shaw then completed a master's degree in interdepartmental transport at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[4] She worked at Halcrow Group, where she advised Dubai, Singapore and Malaysia on transport projects.
She returned to the UK in 1999, where she was deputy chief economist and director of Access, Competition and Licensing at the Office of the Rail Regulator.
[8] In 2011 she became chief executive of High Speed 1, where she transformed the project from construction into a long-term business.
[17] She worked to improve diversity at National Grid plc, where 30% of senior management are women.