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title: Leon Daniels Awarded An OBE In The New Year’s Honours List - Optibus
description: Leon Daniels Awarded An OBE In The New Year’s Honours List Optibus congratulates its Head of Strategy, UK, Leon Daniels, on being awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
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# [Leon Daniels Awarded An OBE In The New Year’s Honours List - Optibus](https://blog.optibus.com/announcements/leon-daniels-awarded-an-obe-in-the-new-years-honours)

 Written by [Amos Haggiag](https://blog.optibus.com/author/amos-haggiag-co-founder-and-ceo) | December 31, 2018

Optibus congratulates its Head of Strategy, UK, Leon Daniels, on being [awarded](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/new-year-honours-list-2019-13786682) an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Until his retirement from TfL in December 2017 Leon was Managing Director, Surface Transport, with responsibility for delivery of all £3.5bn of road, light rail and transport services and all major, civil engineering infrastructure projects in London.

Leon [joined](https://medium.com/optibus-blog/modernization-at-last-or-why-im-joining-optibus-802260e02e69) Optibus as an investor and as its Head of Strategy, UK, in 2018.

  

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