Sally Librera

Career: Sally’s career spans decades working across complex operations and infrastructure development. Prior to her time at National Grid, Sally served as Senior Vice President and Transit Market Sector Leader at AECOM, where she focused on the design and delivery of complex, sustainable infrastructure projects and forging public-private partnerships. In this role she focused on shepherding in innovative, cost-effective, and resilient transit solutions for providers, riders and systems. She joined AECOM in January 2022 from HNTB, where she led the NY/NJ Rail Infrastructure Practice.

As the former Senior Vice President for Subways at MTA New York City Transit, Sally was the first woman to oversee North America’s largest urban rail transit operation, leading a team of 30,000 employees and serving nearly six million daily riders. She guided the NYC subways team through a dramatic performance turnaround; Sally and her team significantly improved on time performance, cut train delays in half and safely reduced customer journey times on every line in the system.

Sally also led MTA’s Staten Island Railway, a 24/7 heavy rail operation and has served in executive posts focusing on safety management, transportation policy, workforce development, operations efficiencies and reliability-based maintenance.

Skills and competencies: Sally earned her Bachelor’s in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and two Master’s degrees from the University of California, Berkeley: one in Civil Engineering and the other in City and Regional Planning. She’s the President of National Grid’s New York business, leading the company’s regulated energy delivery portfolio, which provides electricity and natural gas service to 4 million customers across the state. The company’s New York service area spans from Niagara Falls to the forks of Long Island.

External appointments:

• International Advisor, Young Professionals in Transportation
• Executive-in-Residence, Partnership for New York City Transit Tech Lab