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legislative affairs, with a concentration in transportation matters. Jim served as the U.S. secretary of transportation from 1987 to 1989 and is one of the nation's foremost authorities on transportation law and policy. He also served as deputy
secretary of transportation from 1983 to 1987 and was general counsel of the
Department in 1983. Prior to his years with the USDOT, Jim served as associate
deputy attorney general for the Justice Department and as director of the VISTA
Program in the early 1980s.

Dr. Gerrard P. Bushell since 2019 has been the Chair of CAG Holdings, a dedicated investment company for airport infrastructure for The Carlyle Group. Dr. Bushell was most recently President and CEO of The New Terminal One (NTO) at New York John F. Kennedy Airport, leading the country’s largest public-private partnership from August 2019 to April 2024. Dr. Bushell served as Executive Chair, and Chairman & CEO, when Carlyle was lead shareholder, and President & CEO when Ferrovial became lead shareholder in 2022. The nation’s largest single-asset project financing at $9.5 billion, NTO is a consortium of investors, Ferrovial, JLC, Ullico, and Carlyle, investing $2.4 billion of private capital in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to develop, construct and operate a world-class international airport terminal. Dr. Bushell successfully led the project to lease and financial close and through design and construction, despite a global pandemic that significantly impacted international travel. NTO issued $2 billion in green bonds in December 2023 and achieved the critical construction milestone of topping off steel in March 2024. Under Dr. Bushell’s leadership, the vision, foundation, scope, and ambition of the project was framed and woven around the commitments to deliver a top 5 world-class international terminal, and drive community, workforce, and minority & women-owned business enterprise (MWBE) goals for Southeast Queens, Queens, and New York. At the end of Dr. Bushell’s tenure at NTO, the project had delivered more than $1 billion in awards to MWBE firms, $500 million in awards to local firms, and was on pace to deliver 40% local participation for jobs, and beyond 30% for MWBE participation. Dr. Bushell effectively executed the business plan, built out the management team, and selected institutional partners critical to delivery of the design, construction, and operations. Under his leadership, the successful negotiation and close-out of major milestone agreements de-risked the project. These are: securing project labor and alternative dispute resolution agreements with Building Trades, successful negotiation of a guaranteed maximum price of $3.9 billion for construction costs transferring risk to the design-builder, attaining investment grade credit ratings, securing a lease extension to 2060, reaching a 10-year innovative master concessionaire retail agreement with URW, and securing agreements with anchor airlines to support revenue and passenger goals for future traffic. Before NTO, Dr. Bushell served as President & CEO of DASNY between 2015 and 2019. During these years, DASNY consistently attained the rank of the nation’s top issuer of infrastructure financing, and infrastructure development. During his tenure, DASNY executed beyond NYS’s MWBE goals of 30%, and issued more than $38 billion of municipal debt supporting public and private infrastructure projects across New York State for universities, hospitals, life-sciences, and government. Dr. Bushell came to DASNY as an accomplished investment advisor who raised private and public investment capital and counseled leading institutional investors. He was a Director of Business Development offering investment solutions for BNY Mellon through Alcentra and Insight, Director in the Client Partner Group at KKR, Managing Director at Arden Asset Management, and the Head of Institutional Sales at Clearbridge Investments, formerly Citi Asset management. Dr. Bushell started his career in government and labor serving in senior roles for New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, NYC Councilwoman C. Virginia Fields, and the public employees union, District Council 37 of the American Federation State County Municipal Employees (AFSCME). A graduate of Columbia University in both the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Bushell holds a B.A., M.A., and PhD. in Urban Political Economy from the Department of Political Sciences where he holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor teaching state politics and finance.

Enzo de Laurentiis is an international consultant with over 30 years of experience specializing in all aspects of public sector procurement including almost 26 years in management and leadership positions at the World Bank (the Bank). Until November 30, 2023, Mr. de Laurentiis was the Bank’s Chief Procurement Officer. Previously, he served as Manager of the Procurement Policy Unit, where he was responsible for rolling out a major procurement reform for the Bank, as a Practice Manager in the Governance Global Practice, and as the Regional Procurement Manager for the East Asia and Pacific and the Latin America and Caribbean Regions of the Bank. Prior to joining the Bank in 1998, Mr. de Laurentiis was Projects Director and later Vice President of an international consulting firm providing advisory services on procurement to Multilateral Development Banks, countries and the private sector. Mr. de Laurentiis has been a member of the adjunct faculty at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 2004, teaching international contracts and international procurement law. He is a current member of the Scientific Committee of the International Master’s in Public Procurement Management and the Strategic Committee of the Bachelor’s Degree in Global Governance at Tor Vergata Uiversity of Rome. He is also a Board Member of FIDIC Credentialing Limited (FCL). Mr. de Laurentiis holds a law degree (Dottore in Giurisprudenza) from the University of Trieste in Italy and a Masters of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies from American University Washington College of Law.

performing airports:  Denver International and O’Hare/ Midway International
Airports and served as Vice President of Engineering for Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority.  In the private sector, she managed
numerous airport capital programs at 15 US airports, 2 Canadian airports,
Lisbon, Quito, Mexico City, Hamad International, Abu Dhabi, and Al
Duqqam.  Transit projects include: Dulles Silver Line, MTA Oversight, MIA
Mover, DIA light rail station, and HIA Dopplemayr. Ginger Evans is a nationally recognized leader in transportation and technology innovation.  For JFK New Terminal One, she negotiated a groundbreaking Master Systems Integration agreement with top airport systems providers that will support operations with the highest levels of customer service, sustainability performance, efficient operating expenses and business intelligence.  During COVID, CAG organized the AAAE Airport Consortium on Consumer Trust (ACT) an industry response to develop and share best practices.  Ginger developed ACT working groups to perform pilots and publish white papers in support of overall industry recovery and improved operations. She serves on the Executive Committee of Transportation Research Board and is one of only two industry leaders recognized twice by Engineering News Record for a leading contribution to the industry (1994 for DIA and 2019 for ORD). She has served as advisor two private equity funds in Mexico for over ten years. In 2022, she was given the Award of Excellence from the Airport Consultants Council. She also serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Carlyle Airports Group, based in Washington DC.

Doug Fraser is the Caribbean Development Bank’s Head of Procurement and manages the Procurement Policy Unit within the Bank’s Projects Department based in Barbados.   Doug holds an MBA in Procurement and Strategy and is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). He has more than 20 years of experience as an international procurement specialist and has worked on a wide variety of procurement assignments across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas for a range of multi-lateral and bi-lateral financing institutions, foundations, NGOs and private sector clients.  He has previously been based in long term roles in Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines, the UK and Vietnam.

to 2013. In nominating him, President Obama said, “Few understand
our infrastructure challenge better than the outstanding public servant
that I’m asking to lead the Department of Transportation.” As Secretary of Transportation, LaHood led an agency with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget, and was responsible for overseeing all air, maritime and surface transportation modes. During his tenure, safety was LaHood’s number one priority and he is best known for his pioneering work to fight distracted driving. Apart from Secretary LaHood’s achievements at the helm of the
Department of Transportation, he has set an example for bipartisanship and leadership in Washington. As a lifelong Republican, Secretary LaHood worked across party lines and frequently reminded partisans that, “there is no such thing as a Democratic road or a Republican bridge.” Before becoming Secretary of Transportation, LaHood served from 1995-2009 in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th District of Illinois, the same district once served by President Abraham Lincoln. In Congress, he served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and, after that, on the House Appropriations Committee. Prior to his election to the House, he served as Chief of Staff to U.S.
House Republican Leader Robert Michel, whom he succeeded in
representing the 18th District, and as District Administrative Assistant to
Congressman Thomas Railsback. He also served in the Illinois State
Legislature.

Karen Layng is the CEO of M.A.I.T. Co., a strategic legal consulting firm in the construction and engineering industries and former Shareholder and Board Member of the international law firm, Vedder Price, Chair of its trial and construction practice areas, and Chief Strategy Officer and G.C. of Scheck
Industries. She is a licensed arbitrator and mediator, member of the AAA Board of Directors and the Northwestern University Industry Advisory Board and Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering’s M.S. in Executive Management in Design Construction program, and serves on Dispute Resolution Boards. She was the first woman president of the 7th Circuit Bar Association and the immediate past National President of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Among her many awards and honors, Karen recently received the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s 2023 Comeback Illini Achievement Award, the College of Economics 2021 Social Impact Alumni Award, and was named to Crain's 2022 Notable Nonprofit Board Leaders list.

Diana Levy, DBIA, PMP is a Senior Director with Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority’s Department of Infrastructure. Mrs. Levy brings over 18 years
of experience managing complex energy and infrastructure projects for private
and public sectors. In her current role Diana is responsible for planning, design,
and construction of some of the Metro’s largest construction projects with a total
value of over $1.5B. Mrs. Levy led formation of Metro’s New Construction
department, spearheading use of Progressive Design-Build delivery method.
During her tenure with Metro Diana led execution of Metro’s newest Potomac
Yard Metrorail station, an infill station south of the National Airport opened in
May 2023. In addition, Diana manages reconstruction of Metro’s two oldest and
historic bus operation and maintenance facilities. Once constructed these bus
O&M facilities will be the first two facilities to store and operate Metro’s Battery
Electric Buses. In 2021 Diana was recognized by Mass Transit magazine’s 40
under 40 for her efforts to advance complex rebuild projects from development
into construction. Diana is a graduate of ENO’s Transit Senior Executive Program. Mrs. Levy holds a BA in International Economic Relationships, MBA and a Master of Science in Project Management.

He served as Country Manager for African Development Bank in Malawi, from 2017 – 2018. In this role, he led policy dialogue with the Malawian government and other development partners. From 2014 – 2017 he was the Division Manager for the Procurement Division, supervising a team of over fifty Procurement Professionals across the continent. He led the fiduciary oversight of the Bank Group’s portfolio and provided advisory services to Senior Management on policy, strategy and a broad range of procurement issues relating to Bank’s operations across sectors. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as the Chief Regional Procurement Coordinator, in East and Southern Africa spearheading procurement reforms. He joined the Africa Development Bank in 2003 as Senior Architect/Implementation Specialist in the Human and Social Development Department. Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Mr. Mvula worked at the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company as Director, Commercial Services in 2003, as Projects Manager/Senior Engineer between 1998 and 2003, and as a Graduate Engineer between 1995 and 1996. He also
worked as a Lecturer/Staff Development Fellow at the University of Zambia from 1996 – 1998. Mr. Mvula holds a Master’s Degree in Sanitary Engineering from the IHE Delft, Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Zambia, Lusaka.

Distinguished Service Award in 2022. He was an accredited trainer for FIDIC until recently and teaches International Construction Contracts at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and Advanced Contracts Management at the University of Turin
and the International Training Centre of the ILO.

Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek, green infrastructure in the Rock Creek sewershed, and targeted sewer separation. The CSO discharges captured by Clean Rivers infrastructure will be conveyed to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment (BPAWWT) Facility for treatment and discharge into the
Potomac River. In addition, Dr. Wone leads DC Water’s assessment of and response to various regulatory matters and studies. This includes assessments for various Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), i.e., nutrients, bacteria, metals, organics, and others; triennial review of water quality standards; National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit reapplication, negotiation, and reissuance for BPAWWTP; the District’s combined sewer system and separate stormwater system, and pre- and post- construction monitoring.
Dr. Wone leads a team responsible for modeling the combined sewer system in the District and receiving water modeling of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek in the District to predict compliance with water quality standards, the efficacy of controls, and the impacts of new standards. Before joining DC Water, Dr. Wone was the Engineer of Record and Lead Designer for the $330M Blue Plains Tunnel (BPT). That project was awarded the International Tunneling Association 2013 Award for Technical Innovation of the Year, the 2016 ENR Best of the Best Project Award and the 2016 DRBF Dispute Avoidance Project Award. During his tenure on the BPT, Dr. Wone oversaw the development of the durability requirements for the BPT structures that DC Water used as the technical justification basis for successfully securing a100-year Green Bond for the program. Dr. Wone has more than 30 years of engineering and leadership experience in both the public and private civil engineering sectors. He is a graduate of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (Paris, France). He is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Design-Build Professional. Dr. Wone currently chairs the Owners’ Forum for both the Underground Construction Association of the Society of Mining Engineering (UCASME) and the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF) for Water and Wastewater.