Hugh Sumner: big event specialist

Hugh Sumner

Hugh Sumner

In 2006, a year after London was announced as the host city for the 2012 Olympics, Hugh Sumner was formally installed as the ODA’s £288,000 a year transport director. It is the culmination of a career which has been spent managing and planning the capital’s public transport systems and began straight after attaining an MBA from Cranfield. At that time London Transport used to recruit several MBA graduates each year. They told Sumner: “We’ll allow you to do insane...