{"id":69978,"date":"2024-06-21T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/?p=116656"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:57:07","slug":"chair-of-the-ara-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=69978","title":{"rendered":"Chair of the ARA steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Danny-Broad.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\"><figcaption>Image\/ARA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>After almost five years as the chair of the Australasian Railway Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/ara.net.au\/\">ARA<\/a>), Danny Broad has announced he will be stepping down from his position on the 25th of November.\u00a0<\/strong><span id=\"more-116656\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Broad spent four years as the CEO and five years as the chair and advised the board at last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand\/industry-organisations\/ara\/\">ARA<\/a> general meeting of his decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a difficult decision, as I greatly enjoy my role of Chair at the ARA, but the time has come for me to spend more time with my family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had a long and wonderful association with the ARA, first as Board Director when I worked for Downer, then as CEO and most recently as chair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been such a fulfilling part of my career and in recent years I have relished the opportunity to support our CEO, Caroline Wilkie and her team in driving significant reform across all sectors of our industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Broad noted a number of ARA programs that he was proud of in his time at the organisation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with the ARA Board to support our industry and the ARA team during the various challenges of Covid while substantially growing our membership numbers,<\/li>\n<li>Growing the research, policy development and advocacy activities of the ARA resulting in such launches as the Future of Freight Report, The Benefits of a Local Content Policy Report and the Building Australian Rail Skills for the Future report.<\/li>\n<li>Continuing the engagement with the National Transport Commission and industry for the delivery of the National Rail Action Plan,<\/li>\n<li>Releasing the Work in Rail program,<\/li>\n<li>Participating in the Memorandum of Understanding with State and Commonwealth Governments on rail interoperability,<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening the ARA\u2019s involvement in both Sustainability and the rail industry in NZ,<\/li>\n<li>Continuing the support for the growth of a younger more diverse rail workforce including the activities of our dynamic Young Leaders Advisory Board (Y-LAB),<\/li>\n<li>Enriching the working relationship between the ARA, TrackSAFE and TrackSAFE NZ and<\/li>\n<li>Contributing to the Rail Industry Innovation Council and also the International High Speed Rail Association.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst I am stepping down as chair of the ARA, I will continue in my important role as chair of the TrackSAFE Foundation into 2025,&#8221; Broad said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank all the ARA Board Directors for their strong support during my tenure as chair. I also want to thank ARA member companies for their support of both myself and the wider ARA team for the work that we continue to do on your behalf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Board will establish a Sub-committee to oversee the process to determine the next Chair of the ARA. This will be a transparent process, allowing those with an interest in the role to engage with the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>The Board will recommend a new Chair to the ARA membership for consideration and endorsement at the ARA AGM on Monday 25 November at AusRAIL 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/chair-of-the-ara-steps-down\/\">Chair of the ARA steps down<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Danny-Broad.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Image\/ARA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After almost five years as the chair of the Australasian Railway Association (ARA), Danny Broad has announced he will be \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/chair-of-the-ara-steps-down\/\">Chair of the ARA steps down<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railexpress.com.au\/\">Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9737,10575,163],"tags":[10376],"class_list":["post-69978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ara","category-industry-organisations","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-rail-express"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69979,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978\/revisions\/69979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}