Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Trustees
Rees Jeffreys Road Fund Trustees have a wide range of knowledge, a breadth of experience and a network of connections relating to the road and transport industries. Find out more about each one of our trustees below.
Andy Graham
MBE, BSc, FIET, FCIHT
Chair
Andy has 35 years’ experience in using new roads technology. He was a director level at AECOM and now leads White Willow Consulting, specialising in connected vehicles and traffic data.
He chaired the ITS-UK Connected Vehicles Forum and won their Award for outstanding personal contribution, and leads the Transport Technology Forum’s Connected Vehicles Group. He is also chair of the technical committee for the ITS World Congress in Birmingham, in 2027.
Hilary Chipping
MA (Econ)
Vice Chair, Investment Sub Group Chair
Hilary is former Chief Executive at the South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership and is currently to .
She was Director of Strategy at the Highways Agency from 2001 to 2007. Prior to that she worked as a civil servant in the areas of housing, local government finance and transport after graduating from the University of Manchester with an MA in Economics.
Mark Kemp
CEng, FCIHT, FICE
Bursary Panel member
Mark is Director of Local Transport at WSP, having previously been the Executive Director of Environment and Transport at Hertfordshire County Council. He is a Chartered Engineer.
Mark is a Past President of ADEPT, is the Chair of the UK Network Management Board, and a member of the UK Roads Leadership Group and the Roads Expert Panel for the Office of Rail and Road.
Dr Suzy Charman
PhD, OBE
Bursary Panel member
Suzy has worked in road safety for 17 years and is the Executive Director of the Road Safety Foundation.
Suzy has broad road safety expertise having led research and policy across all areas of road safety but has a strong specialism in proactive risk management and infrastructure safety.
Mohammed Al-Sharif
CEng, FICE
Mohammed is a Fellow of the ICE and a practising Chartered Civil Engineer within the transportation sector. He has experience in research across various fields including sustainable materials, engineering education and emerging technologies. He undertakes various voluntary roles within the Institution of Civil Engineers, acts as a mentor with various not-for-profit organisations and currently acts as an External Examiner at The University of Wolverhampton. Mohammed is the Founder and Chair of The Chartership Forum, a pro-bono organisation offering professional development support globally.
Dr Jo White
CEng, MIET
Ready for the Future Panel member
Jo is Director of Engineering at National Highways and has over 20 years’ experience in the highways sector, specialising in intelligent transport systems.
Her interest stemmed from her PhD in modelling traffic networks, gained in 1999, and in 2020, she became a Chartered Engineer with the Institute for Engineering and Technology.
Professor Greg Marsden
Ph.D, MEng, MCIHT, FHEA
Ready for the Future Panel member
Greg Marsden is a Professor of Transport Governance at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the design and implementation (and non-implementation) of policies. He regularly advises local, national and international government and is keen to make a difference to the climate crisis and its connections to a better quality of life.
Anthony Ferguson FCIHT
Anthony retired from the Department for Transport in 2025 after a 36 year career (save for 2 years helping to set up the Greater London Authority), 20 of them as a senior civil servant. For the last 10 years of his career, Anthony was head of the traffic and technology team responsible for traffic management and parking policy as well as creation of a national policy for micromobility. In this role he managed two national digital services relating to street works and the Blue Badge scheme. Other DfT roles included managing the Crossrail Bill that gave legal authority for what is now the Elizabeth Line, the Traffic Management Act 2004 and writing the London/South East volume of the 2003 air transport white paper.
Dr Neil Hoose Ph.D, MSc, BSc (Hons), FCIHT
Neil has been involved in the application of technology in transport, notably highways and vehicles, for more than 35 years. He was a director of Golden River Traffic prior to establishing his own independent consultancy, Bittern Consulting Ltd, in 1999.
He is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial in London, a trustee of the Road Safety Trust and a member of the CIHT CPD review panel.
Sue Percy
CBE, BSc (Hons), FCIHT
Sue Percy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. Sue’s interests include improving the way transport infrastructure – including roads – is planned, funded, designed, built, managed and operated to meet societal needs, environmental imperatives and supporting a strong economy. She has a deep interest in changing the image of the transport infrastructure industry and making it a more diverse and inclusive career for all.
Sue has worked in the built environment sector for over 30 years in allied professions, Higher Education and in local government. Sue was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in June 2019 for services to transport.
Zahra Ali
MSc
Adviser
Zahra is Senior Strategic Transport Planner at London Borough of Hounslow. Zahra joined Rees Jeffreys Road Fund as our early career professional Adviser in April 2025.
Zahra received a Rees Jeffreys Road Fund MSc bursary to study for an MSc in Transport Planning and Management at the University of Westminster in 2022