Here you will find details of our committee.
Get in touch with the local committee: southwest@ciht.org.uk
Ann-Cathrin joined Arup as a graduate in 2021 and has since specialised in active travel design and appraisal as well as pedestrian modelling. She has been involved with CIHT since 2022 and co-chaired the Emerging Professionals Group in 2024/25.
Ann-Cathrin has chosen 'designing for all' as the theme for her term. Transport is a fundamental part of life and significantly shapes what opportunities people have access to. Therefore, as transportation professionals we should aim to design for a diverse range of users and make our designs as accessible as possible. Whether that is physical accessibility, enhanced safety for women and girls or designing beyond the standard vehicle commuter – people’s needs and journeys are diverse, and our transport network should reflect that.
Dave is a transport planner with over ten years experience in both the public and private sector. Dave delivered the Highways Development Management and Transport Planning functions at Gloucestershire County Council before relocating to Somerset and joining Stantec focussing on Active Travel, Sustainable Transport Strategies and Business Case development. Dave has been part of the CIHT Committee since 2023 and Comms Officer since 2024.
Thad is an Associate with Ramboll, based in our Exeter office, with over 20 years of transport planning experience in academia, local government and consultancy, mainly in development planning, land-use and transport integration, and multi-modal access strategy such as for major hospitals, airports, public transport interchange, high-speed rail, mixed use urban regeneration/extensions, research & development campuses, and active travel schemes.
As a keen cyclist, Thad is a passionate advocate for active travel having previously supported the London Cycle Campaign committee and served on the committee for Cycle Action Auckland. Born in Truro, Thad has studied, lived, and worked across the UK, Europe and New Zealand, before returning to the south west and settling in Exmouth with his family and 2 moggies.
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Yara Al Hamdan is a Transport Planner with ATKINS. She has four years of experience in various transport disciplines, including pedestrian modelling, traffic impact studies, parking studies, active travel plans and spatial analysis.
Yara is currently a member of the CIHT National Council, as well as CIHT’s Learned Society & Technical Strategy Board (LSTSB).
Associate Transport Planning, WSP. Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP).
Nik is a Chartered Transport Planner (CTPP), Fellow of the CIHT, and a past Chair of the CIHT South West region (2019-2020). He is currently the South West Regional Representative to CIHT Council. He has served as a Director on the Appian Trading Board (one of CIHT’s Strategic Boards) since 2020; in 2024 Nik became Chair of Appian Board and was duly appointed to CIHT’s Board of Trustees.
Nik is an Associate Director at WSP, based in Bristol, covering the South West and South Wales. He joined WSP in 2024 after roles as the Strategic Transport Projects, Manager at Bath & North East Somerset Council (2022-2024) and as an Associate Director at AECOM for over16 years (2006-2022). Nik specialises in transport planning, traffic modelling, and business cases, with experience working on projects across the South West of England, South Wales, and throughout the UK. His clients include National Highways, Transport for Wales, Heathrow Airport, Transport for London, the DfT, and various Local Authorities.
Nik is passionate about strategic transport planning, modelling, economics, and the transportation sector's impact on the climate. He has a personal interest in active travel, rail, and aviation. Since 2019, Nik has volunteered as the Mobility lead on the Devon Net-Zero Task Force and its successor, the Climate Task Force, providing independent advice and helping develop a credible Carbon Plan for Devon. He is also a member of the Steering Group for the Net Zero Exchange project at the University of Plymouth.
Nik graduated from the University of Exeter in 2006 with a BSc in Geography, specialising in climate change, palaeoclimates, and sustainability. He achieved the Transport Planning Professional (TPP) accreditation in 2018 and holds the Chartered title (CTPP). Nik is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and a Chartered Geographer (CGeog), a Chartered Fellow of the CILT, and a Member of the Transport Planning Society.
He has been a full member of the CIHT since 2009, and has been on the South West committed since 2015 serving in various officer roles including Honorary Secretary (2016, 2017), Vice Chair, (2018), Chair (2019), Events Coordinator (2020, 2021) and Regional Representative to Council (2023-2025). He is currently the Council's Honorary Treasurer.
Chelsea joined Devon County Council as a Graduate Transport Planner in 2020 and has since worked on road and active travel schemes, covering strategy and policy as well as scheme development and delivery. She has been involved with the Emerging Professionals Group since 2024
Lauren Allington is a Principal Transport Planning Officer at Devon County Council, delivering highways, active travel and multi-modal transport schemes across Devon. She was previously Chair of the CIHT South West Emerging Professionals Group and is currently Chair of the national Emerging Professionals Network. She was awarded CIHT Emerging Professional of the Year in 2025.
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Dunstan is a Chartered Transport Planning Professional based in Bristol, and leads Atkins’ transport planning practice for the South West & Wales region. Dunstan specialises in transport strategy, business case & appraisal, and economics.
Alex is a Principal Consultant based in AECOM’s Bristol transport planning team. He has been actively involved with CIHT activities in the region since 2019, including the Bristol Emerging Professionals Group and the regional committee.
Will is a Principal Consultant with the AECOM Streets Team based in Bristol and a certified Project Manager. His technical speciality is in regulatory processes, specifically Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs), and parking design and strategy. He works with clients from all over the UK and has been a member of the CIHT South West Committee since 2023.
Hannah is the Transport Strategy Manager at Devon County Council and a Chartered Civil Engineer. The day job involves overseeing Devon's range of multi-modal schemes across the county and securing the funding required to do so.
Hannah has a particular interest around adopting people first approaches, both in scheme design and leadership. She has been on the regional committee for a number of years and is a former Chair.
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Alice has over 30 years of experience working in Government, including ten years in National Highways and a secondment at National Infrastructure Commission and NISTA (National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority).
She lives in Bristol and has a long history working for the region – including roles in the South West Regional Development Agency, in central government working on City Deals and Local Growth Deals, and now at National Highways where she leads on regional strategy issues for the South. Alice joined the CIHT South West Committee in 2026.
Greg joined Devon County Council as a graduate in September 2022 after completing a BSc in Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. He has since progressed to Transportation Planning Officer, having been involved in delivering a range of infrastructure projects including bus, highway and active travel, as well as strategy development and behaviour change initiatives.
Alongside his job, Greg completed an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering at Southampton University, having graduated in Winter 2024. In 2025 Greg was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ for his entry to the CIHT SW EPG Presentation Competition, and has since co-led an interactive workshop at the CIHT SW Annual Conference. Greg previously served as an Events Officer, and has now stepped up to lead the group as Chair of the EPG Committee.
