Sue Sharland

Biography

Dr. Sue Sharland is a Non-Executive Director/Trustee of a number of public, private and not-for-profit organisations; HR Wallingford Group, LUC (a planning and landscape design consultancy), Transport Systems Catapult and VCA (an Executive Agency of Department for Transport). She is a Trustee of the Institution of Highways and Transportation and will be President of the Institution from June 2015 to June 2016.

Sue was Chief Executive of TRL Limited, a world-leading supplier of impartial research, consultancy, software development and certification in the fields of transport and sustainable development, from 2001 to 2013.

In her earlier career, Sue was a senior manager within AEA Technology plc, where she led a number of areas including consultancy, risk management and engineering software in a wide range of industries including energy, aviation and oil and gas. She started her career as a mathematical modeller, with a first degree in Mathematics and PhD in Materials Science.