Sue Percy CBE, Chief Executive of CIHT made the announcement at the Institution’s Young Professional Conference ‘What’s on the horizon?’.

The CIHT Young Professional Award recognises and celebrates a young professional who is making a difference in our industry. Candidates are required to show how they have had a positive impact during their early career as a Highways and Transportation professional.

Sue Percy CBE, Chief Executive, CIHT said:

“Young professionals play a vital role not just in CIHT but in coming up with the solutions to the challenges we face in sector and across society. Our Young Professional of the Year nominees are extremely well-respected individuals and play key roles in CIHT at a regional and national level. This year we were lucky enough to have some extremely high-quality entries.”

“Mark has been awarded the CIHT Young Professional of the Year 2021 award after really impressing our panel of judges. He not only demonstrated a breadth of knowledge and expertise in his role as a Transport Planner but also by his work in developing a carbon assessment toolkit.”

“I would like to congratulate Mark and all those who made our shortlist as I know it was a very difficult call for our judges. Over the next few months, we will be developing our relationship with them all and encouraging them to get involved in the wider work of CIHT.”

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CIHT Young Professional of the Year 2021

Shortlisted this year were:

• Yara Al Hamdan, Transport Planner, AECOM
• Anhony Clewes, Assistant Engineer, Waterman Aspen
• Ben Handleyo, Senior Transport Planner, WSP
• Mark Harrison, Transport Planner, Mott MacDonald
• Jimoh Ibrahim, Transport Planner, Royal HaskoningDHV
• Andrew Reid, Graduate Transport Planning Consultant, AECOM

CIHT Young Professionals Conference 2021

The CIHT Young Professionals Conference has become established as one of the sectors flagship events, annually attracting the brightest and most enthusiastic young professionals from across the highways and transportation sector.

Taking place over 2-days, this year’s event sees some of the most well-known and influential names within the industry coming together to address key topics. Find out more here

Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation

CIHT is a chartered professional body for those working in highways and transportation.

We support our members throughout their careers by providing:

• industry-recognised training and qualifications
• professional standards
• research and business insights to help plan, design, build, maintain, manage and operate transport infrastructure and services
• leadership on key transportation related issues

We have members across the world, working in the public, private, academic, research and not-for-profit sectors.

CIHT is the only body to offer the full range of professional transportation qualifications including Chartered Engineer, Incorporated Engineer, Engineering Technician, Certificate of Competency in Road Safety and, uniquely, Chartered Transport Planning Professional. These qualifications ensure that our members work to high professional standards on behalf of the societies we serve.

We have a network of valued partner organisations – representing the private, public, research and education sectors – that support and collaborate with us in our work and align to our values.

Our work is governed by our Royal Charter. Our object states that we exist:

“To advance for the public benefit the science and art associated with highways and transportation in all their aspects: and to promote education, training and research and development of the said science and art.”