Julie Wood

Julie Wood is an inspirational leader with more than 25 years’ experience delivering major infrastructure programmes across energy, science, transport, healthcare and industrial sectors. She specialises in large, complex capital projects that create long term societal value.

Recognised as a trusted adviser to clients and project sponsors, and for practical leadership of multidisciplinary teams of up to 700 people across all stages of a project, she enables high performance through collaboration and clarity. She has a track record of leading some of the UK’s most complex programmes over the last decade, working with world-class experts and senior staff.

Prior to joining Mott MacDonald in 2024, Julie was an executive director at Arup, leading major programmes and projects, such as HS2’s Euston Station, the Francis Crick Institute, McLaren Head Quarters and the multi-billion-pound TransPennine route upgrade. In her current role, she is helping to shape the future of the NHS as technical and design delivery director for the National Hospital Programme, a government initiative to build 40 new hospitals in England.

As a Mott MacDonald Fellow, Julie champions technical excellence in delivery and fosters industry best practice. She leads by example, encouraging and nurturing others to do the same through her “hands-on” leadership and mentoring of those at the start of their career.

In November 2026 Julie will become president of The Institution of Civil Engineers, which she will deliver in parallel with remaining a practitioner.