Young Professionals Panel
Archive information on the work of groups appointed to help support and inform the Commission’s work.
Supporting and informing the Commission's work
Operating between 2018 and 2023, two separate cohorts of Young Professionals Panel (YPP) members helped support and inform the Commission’s work, offering a voice for the next generation of infrastructure leaders in the Commission’s programme.
After five years and as the second cohort reached the end of their term, the Commission is now exploring other ways of complementing its wide external engagement, to seek a diverse range of views from infrastructure users on specific policy areas.
The Commission is grateful to all those who gave their time to these panels, and archive information on their work can be found via the links below.
Second cohort 2020-23
The second group of ten panellists – this time, with a designated Chair – operated from July 2020 to the end of July 2023. Their term was extended by one year, in recognition of the limitations placed on their activities by the pandemic.
Find out moreFirst cohort 2018-2020
The first group of 16 young professionals was appointed in 2018 and their tenure ended in April 2020.
Details of the work they undertook, including launching the Infra[un]structured podcast series, can be found via the button below.
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The long term role of cars in towns
An opinion piece by Mike Davis, Consultant Engineer at E4Tech, and Jo Garvey-Rae, Senior Cost Manager at Turner & Townsend, both members of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel. The last 12 months has seen a renewed recognition that some towns and places are being left behind, both in terms of productivity and wider quality of...
Can local energy planning help solve ‘double challenge’ of net zero and levelling up?
An opinion piece by Cissie Liu, senior regulation analyst at SSE Plc and Mike Davis, chartered engineer and a senior consultant at E4tech; both members of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel (YPP). Background The Commission’s YPP has committed to explore decarbonisation and levelling up as our two key themes for 2021, as both have a...
We must press the accelerator on transport decarbonisation
An opinion piece by Caroline Bryce, Asset Management Adviser at Mott MacDonald and member of the Commission’s Young Professionals Panel. The UK announced its sixth Carbon Budget earlier this year, committing to reducing emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 compared to 1990 levels. The government expects to achieve this target through investing and capitalising...