Outline:
Alison will share her experience in forging a career as a woman in a male dominated industry, the challenges and barriers she has faced, how she coped with these and learned from them. She will highlight the attitudes encountered, both positive and negative, and how these have influenced and shaped her values and principles as a leader. Alison will also reflect on the changes she has seen within engineering during her career, as well as sharing her thoughts on what the future may hold for women in engineering.

Alison will draw on her experience from her time with the Scottish Government, Transport Scotland, the development of the new National Transport Strategy, the transport aspects of the Climate Change Plan and setting the investment priorities for transport across Scotland through the second Strategic Transport Projects Review.

Bio:
Alison has held various policy and delivery posts across the Scottish Government latterly leading the Cabinet, Parliament and Governance Division in Scottish Government covering all legislation and parliament business, the running of Cabinet as well as Protocol and Honours.

Having first joined Transport Scotland in 2008 she was Director of Transport Strategy and Analysis and was responsible for the development of the new National Transport Strategy, the transport aspects of the Climate Change Plan and setting the investment priorities for transport across Scotland through the second Strategic Transport Projects Review. Her remit also included responsibility for supporting ministers through the transport response to Covid19, EU Exit as well as the development of business cases and post opening evaluation for Scottish Minister’s trunk road and rail investment programmes.

Prior to joining Transport Scotland Alison spent eighteen years working in the consultancy sector as a transport planner. She is a graduate from the University of Strathclyde and a Chartered Civil Engineer

https://www.transport.gov.scot/about/senior-management-team/