Meet Camilla Drover, Head of Commercial, Performance and Strategy, Infrastructure and Place

What are you most looking forward to in your new role?

Developing the Commercial, Performance and Strategy team that will support and enable all the infrastructure and place-making projects across our Division, and finding better ways to deliver great outcomes for our projects! We’ve never before seen this level of investment in transport projects across NSW. Although it brings challenges, it also presents us with an amazing opportunity to make a very tangible and lasting positive contribution to how people move around NSW and their experiences of the places we will create. I want to be part of that.

What’s your biggest career achievement to date?

Over the last 18 months or so, I have been very fortunate to be part of the opening of three new motorways for Sydney– the new M4 East and the new M8 (the first and second tunnel sections of WestConnex) and NorthConnex. Although I have spent most of my career developing, financing and delivering infrastructure, seeing the opened product always inspires me. I reflect on the vision, the design decisions, the planning, the community, environmental and safety considerations and the thousands of people hours that go into the build – a huge amount of human effort which combines to produce infrastructure for communities.

What was your last job?

I was acting Executive Director, Finance and Commercial for Infrastructure & Place for about 10 months before my current role, and prior to that I was the Executive Director, Motorways for the former RMS for just over 2 years. In that role, I was responsible for managing the development, delivery, and operations of Sydney's Motorway network, including running the E-Toll tolling services business. This portfolio included the WestConnex, NorthConnex, M6, Sydney Gateway, Western Harbour Tunnel, Beaches Link and the Warringah Freeway Upgrade projects, plus all operating motorways in Sydney.

Prior to joining government, I worked for a major contracting company, where I led the development of some very large Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and other privately financed projects across Australia, New Zealand and in Asia – not just transport such as metros, light rail and highways, but also office towers, hospitals, education and research facilities and even a power transmission line and undersea cable!