Steven Richard Bowker CBE (born 23 April 1966, Oldham)[1] is former chairman and chief executive of the Strategic Rail Authority, a former chief executive of National Express and Etihad Railway, and also a former chairman of UK Athletics and independent director of the English Football League.
1941), who would go on to have a long career as a senior manager in the bus industry, latterly working for Stagecoach Group and Brian Souter.
[2][3] Bowker attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, read economics at Leicester University, and played as a professional session pianist for a year.
[4] In 1989 he joined the London Underground as a graduate finance trainee, where he qualified as a chartered management accountant.
[12] Since 2023 Bowker has co-presented Green Signals, a regular podcast discussing current events in the UK rail sector, together with Nigel Harris, former managing editor of the UK industry magazine RAIL.