Here you will find details of our committee.
Get in touch with the local committee e: yorkshireandthehumber@ciht.org.uk
Ed is a chartered transport planning specialist based in Leeds with Buro Happold with over seventeen years experience in the UK and abroad. His expertise covers transport policy and strategy, modelling and sustainable transport, with recent projects including contributions to the West Yorkshire Connectivity Infrastructure Plan, Leeds Local Plan, and Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans.
He has served on several CIHT Regional Committees, including the North East and North West and was previously the CIHT Young Professionals Network chair and recipient of the CIHT National Young Professional of the Year. Currently, Ed is the coordinator of an international research initiative known as the Future Transport Visions Network, funded by Rees Jeffreys Road Fund.
Georgia is a Principal Transport Planner at WSP with nearly 8 years of experience, primarily focused on leading and working on public sector transport projects. She began her career in 2016 as an Apprentice Transport Planner, studying the pioneering Level 3 Transport Planning Technician Apprenticeship at Leeds College of Building. Recently, she completed the trailblazer Level 6 Integrated Degree at Aston University.
Additionally, she has broadened her professional involvement by serving as an EngTech reviewer, a Level 3 Transport Planning End Point Assessment Reviewer, and a member of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation's Engineering Professional Standard Panel.
Michael has 20 years’ experience in Civil Engineering Consultants. He is undertaking a wide variety of Highways and Transportation projects from local junction improvement to multi-million projects nationally in the UK and Republic of Ireland. He is a Principal Engineer in Roughan & O’Donovan Consulting Engineers based in Otley office near Leeds.
Michael undertakes professional reviews for CIHT and provides professional development advice to professionals.
Andy is currently a freelance Project Manager having over 40 years experience in the Civil Engineering industry mainly with contractors.
Andy is a Graduate of the University of Leeds with a degree in Civil Engineering. He began his career as a graduate engineer in 1984 working for a for a small number of contractors before joining a Regional Contractor in 2006 as Project Manager on their first major highway scheme in Yorkshire. Andy became Regional Manager with the contractor in 2008, a role he carried out until November 2014. Andy has been mainly in freelance roles since 2014.
Andy is a Past Chair of the CIHT Yorkshire & the Humber Region. He is also a past Chair of The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (Yorkshire and Humberside), having previously been a member of the Executive Committee.
Mark is a Senior Transport Planner based in Leeds with Mott MacDonald. He is passionate about sustainability and has significant experience in business case development and appraisal, transport economics, and transport decarbonisation.
Mark has been supporting the CIHT in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as nationally, in various roles since 2019.
Omar is a Graduate Carbon Management consultant at Mott Macdonald with almost three years of experience within the transport sector. Omar has a background in civil engineering with Transport and master’s degree from the Institute of transport studies at the University of Leeds. He has been a part of the Emerging Professionals Committee for 3 years and is coming into his second year as committee chair.
Tom is past chair of the CIHT Yorkshire and the Humber Committee and Regional Representative on National Council. He is currently Sponsorship Director at National Highways where he has worked for over 13 years, having started on their graduate development programme and undertaking secondments with both designer and contractor.
Tom is a Chartered Project Professional with significant experience in the delivery of highway infrastructure projects at all stages of the project lifecycle. In his current role, he is responsible for the governanance and assurance activities, development of business cases, and achievement of outcomes for projects within the Complex Delivery Programme.
Outside of his core role, Tom also spends a significant amount of time mentoring early talent and emerging professionals to support their development.
Roger is a qualified civil, structural, mechanical, production and electrical engineer. He is a Chartered Project Professional with over 50 years’ experience, largely spent designing, constructing, managing, sponsoring, and reviewing complex and high-risk programmes and projects across industries in the public and private sectors.
Having worked for National Highways and its predecessors for nearly two decades in numerous roles, Roger is currently the Programme Sponsor within the Regional Investment Programme of Major Projects. His skills include portfolio, programme and project management, customer and stakeholder management, conflict resolution, negotiation, contract management, communication, and value and benefits management. He is also an APMG-International Better Business Cases (TM) Practitioner and an accredited High-Risk Independent Assurance Reviewer.
