Vincent Ducrot has held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1 April 2020. The engineer from Fribourg, a specialist in rail transport in Switzerland, has thus become the first French-speaking Swiss person in nearly 50 years to head the SBB. From 2011 to 2020, the electrical engineer, specialising in IT, held the post of Managing Director of Fribourg Public Transport (TPF). It was also at SBB that the Fribourg native, who is also an expert in project management, spent the bulk of his career (1993 to 2011) in various roles. After obtaining his A-levels (Latin and languages) at the Collège du Sud in Bulle, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering (specialising in computer science) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 1987. He supplemented this training with a postgraduate diploma in industrial organisation from the Centre for Industrial Management (BWI) at the ETH Zurich, as well as a certificate in portfolio management (Certified Portfolio Director IPMA Level A) and the OWP (Orchestrating Winning Performance) continuing education programme at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne.