Loraine Martins

Loraine is the Global EDI Director at Arup, a sustainable development company.  Formerly a consultant at Nichols Group, and before that, for ten years Loraine was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail, which maintains and develops Britain’s rail infrastructure. With some 43,000 employees, it is the fastest growing railway in Europe.  Loraine led a centre of expertise which supported Network Rail’s ambition to be a more open, diverse and inclusive business. 

Previously, Loraine led a multi-award-winning team, delivering a programme of equality and inclusion and employment and skills in the construction of the infrastructure, venues and facilities on the Olympic Park for London 2012.  For this work Loraine was awarded an MBE. 

As the vice chair of the Trust for London, a grant-making body which tackles inequality and poverty in the capital, Loraine led the working group that funded the London Living Wage campaign.  In October 2019 Inclusive Boards and the Financial Times included Loraine in the top 100 women influencing engineering in the UK.  In November 2019, Loraine was awarded the Mike Nichols Award (Association of Project Management APM) which recognises contributions to transformational change for the world and society.

Loraine was part of the independent advisory panel for the Windrush Lessons Learned Review. And in the 2020 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list, Loraine was awarded an OBE her work on diversity and inclusion at Network Rail.  Loraine is a non-executive director (NED) of DFS Group, and a Board member of POWERful Women and the Black Business Association (part of the London Chamber of Commerce). Loraine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.