Philippe Schulzinger

Egis

REGIONAL Director for Asia, Transportation

Philippe is holding a Master degree from the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP) in Paris.

He has more than 25 years rail systems experience working for major rail systems contractors across five continents, worldwide experience in the PPP environment.

He has forged a career across a range of projects globally mainly in rail systems, trackwork and civil engineering, starting in France in the late 90s’ with Trackwork contractor Travaux du Sud-Ouest (TSO) for High Speed Rail projects: renewal of the High Speed Rail line between Paris and Lyon, and from the year 1999 the construction of the TGV Mediterranee line between the cities of Orange, Marseille and Nimes.

In 2001, he joined the group Alstom Transportation as Track Construction Lead Engineer to work for the delivery of the Metro Circle Line in Singapore, then in 2005 he was in charge as Construction Manager of the delivery of the metro Orange Line and Blue Line extension in Taipei (Taiwan).

In 2007 Philippe joined the group Bombardier to be part of the $2.25B Gautrain PPP rail project in Johannesburg (South Africa) to lead the Management of Interfaces.

In 2010, following the project partial advanced completion and opening for the Football World Cup in South Africa, he did move and work in the United States for couple years, as Interface and Integration Director for the High Speed Rail project DesertXpress (between Las Vegas and California) and in addition he was a full member of the Rail Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC), led by the Federal Rail Authority (FRA), whose goal was to develop new railway standards for high speed rail development in North America.

In 2013, Philippe became the System Integration and Engineering Director in the Region APAC, located first in Australia, then in Bangkok from 2016, with the global responsibility for the System Integration and wayside systems engineering and PPP Technical Leader for the Bombardier.

In February 2021, Philippe joined Egis to become one of the key leaders of the Group Company in the region APAC as Rail Director for the region and Managing Director for Thailand.

Philippe is now Regional Director for Transportation activities in Asia for Egis.