Janvi Shah - Senior Technical Director, Arcadis

Janvi is responsible for leading the asset management service across UK highways sector. Janvi has wealth of experience across the public and private sectors leading on developing and integrating strategies to delivery. Janvi is a chartered engineer with experience leading and a passion for growing talent.

Janvi has worked with both Strategic Road Authorities as well as Local Highways and other public sector to develop and assure their asset management plans, policies and investment case.  Janvi is a visiting lecturer at University of Birmingham teaching MSc students. Janvi was awarded the Women In Transport (CIHT) and Associate Laureate at Highways UK in 2018. 

Anne-Marie Cobb - Lead Development Manager, Octavius

Anne-Marie Cobb is a lead development manager at Octavius Infrastructure, project managing major highways projects.  Her passion for planning and construction can be traced back to her childhood where she would happily spend hours building with lego or planning cities in Transport Tycoon and SimCity.  
 
A Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Project Manager she has successfully mentored others to achieve chartered status. Anne-Marie is currently Chair of the Octavius Inclusion Network, a role she was keen to undertake as she truly believes in the importance of being an advocate for the next generation of women in the workplace 
 
Outside of work she is an enthusiastic boulderer and still enjoys lego.

Clare Sheffield - Director of Transport Planning, Arup

Clare is a director in the transport planning team at Arup. Working with clients globally, she specialises in ‘bridging the gap’ between policy-makers and technical specialists, solving problems together to deliver informative and influential analysis, and policy that is robust, effective and deliverable.

Prior to joining Arup, Clare was analytical lead for the development of strategy and policy at TfL, including development of the Mayor’s transport strategy and measures to manage travel demand and traffic reduction policies such as congestion charging and road/emissions-based pricing.

Claire Steiner - Head of Transport projects (Contracts and Resources), Birmingham City Council

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Farheen Ahmed - Technical Director, Arcadis

Farheen is a Chartered Engineer and Technical Director for Arcadis with over 20 years’ experience in the industry. She is a Fellow of CIHT and FIR (Fairness, Inclusion & Respect) Ambassador. Farheen has been on the CIHT West Midlands Committee for over 8 years, having previously served as its Honorary Secretary. She is Chair for CIHT WM pilot Women Network, which was launched in March 2024. She received highly commended recommendation in Inspiring Women In leadership- Consultant category in Inspiring Women in Construction and engineering awards 2024. She is always finding ways to inspire, encourage, mentor and support. She works with schools, colleges/universities thus inspiring the next generation of engineers especially women and kids from deprived areas, motivating them and answering their queries. She has learned a great deal throughout her career and sharing those lesson learned is her way of paving roads for others who will be joining. She created CIHT West Midlands Women Network, with aim to inspire people across different organisation not just her team, as she believes through this network, it will create future leaders and long-lasting positive relationships.