Hamid Butt

Hamid Butt is a Senior Corporate Finance Adviser at the Department for Transport with over 30 years’ experience across financial, commercial and policy roles in central government and the NHS. He currently leads on expiry within DfT’s PFI portfolio, having developed the Department’s expiry strategy and established the DfT PFI Expiry Forum. His role involves working closely with public and private sector stakeholders to support effective preparation for contract expiry, manage financial and commercial risks, and ensure complex PFI arrangements transition successfully.

Hamid brings many years of PFI and PPP experience from roles at DfT and the Department of Health and Social Care, spanning business cases, value for money, contract management, refinancing, dispute resolution, and portfolio strategy. He is also a director of three DfT special purpose vehicles (SPVs) relating to HS1. His wider career includes policy roles at the Ministry of Justice and DHSC, where he has led multidisciplinary teams and worked with Ministers and senior stakeholders on politically sensitive issues. A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, a CEDR trained mediator and holder of the Institute of Directors’ Certificate in Company Direction, he combines financial and commercial experience with a collaborative approach to working across organisational boundaries.