Becky Wood has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of NISTA, the government’s new flagship infrastructure delivery organisation, bringing together the former Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) under one roof. The body is home to Government Project Delivery, a function of over 26,000 civil servants.

Most recently, Becky was a partner at the consultancy firm EY, and prior to that held a role as a Commercial Advisor at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority as well as Government-appointed Non-Executive roles on the TfL Board and with the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade Programme. Before returning to work in the UK in 2021, she gained valuable international experience, working on significant infrastructure programmes across both public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand. Her previous roles for HM Government included oversight of various major infrastructure projects at the Department for Transport, serving as the Senior Responsible Officer for the Crossrail, Thameslink and Intercity Express programmes as well as working as the lead negotiator on the PPP Administration of Metronet. Prior to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, Becky took a secondment to work as the DfT’s transport lead on the Paralympics.

Becky is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, and a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers. She is passionate about ensuring infrastructure development, design and delivery is focussed on the end-users and communities that it is intended to serve, as well as the importance of collaboration between public and private partners as well as across the sector as a whole to achieve this. She lives with her family in Southwest London and can usually be spotted enjoying a game or three of rugby at the Harlequins home ground with her daughter and husband.