Maria Lehman
U.S. Infrastructure Market Leader, GHD | Vice Chair, President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council | President Emeritus, ASCE

Maria Lehman, P.E, NAC, F.ASCE, ENV SP,. is GHD’s Infrastructure Market Leader for the United States, as well as a Principal and shareholder and serves on the company’s U.S. Board of Directors. Maria was the former Vice President for Critical Infrastructure for Parsons, COO and Acting Executive Director of the New York State Thruway Authority and Commissioner of Public Works for Erie County, NY. She has over 40 years of diverse, increasingly responsible, multi-disciplinary technical and leadership experience, both in the private and public sectors, and in traditional and alternative delivery. She received her BS in Civil Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Magna Cum Laude, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in several states.
She has served as Project Executive, Program and Project Manager, and Project Engineer on more than 700 projects which required everything from scoping, planning, environmental studies, preparation of plans, specifications, and estimates, construction management and operations and maintenance; ranging in size from $10,000 to $3.9 billion, with specific focus on surface transportation.
Maria is the 2023 President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, with over 164,000 members in 177 countries. She is also the Vice Chair of President Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
Maria has won numerous national, statewide and local awards including and the ASCE President’s Medal, National Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award, State University of New York at Buffalo’s School of Engineering Alumna of the Year, New York Governor’s Award for Excellence in Business and the New York State Society of Professional Engineers Engineering Manager of the Year. In 2022, Maria was inducted into the National Academy of Construction.