Sally Librera

Interim Executive President US

As Interim Executive President US, Sally oversees National Grid’s regulated businesses in New England and New York and the unregulated National Grid Ventures business in the US. Sally joined National Grid in 2024 as President of New York, where she oversaw our gas and electric businesses with four million customers from Niagara Falls to the forks of Long Island and a $23bn investment programme. 

Sally’s career spans decades working across complex operations and infrastructure development. Prior to her time at National Grid, she 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. 

She 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. 

Sally earned her Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and holds two Master's degrees from the University of California, Berkeley: one in Civil Engineering and the other in City and Regional Planning.  

External appointments:

Board Member, Partnership for New York City

Board Member, American Gas Association

Board Member, Regional Plan Association

Executive Board Member, Business Council of New York State.