Carolyn Flowers joined Infrastrategies LLC in February 2019 as Managing Principal and partner for strategic advisory consulting in transit and rail. Prior to that she worked at AECOM, the largest global engineering firm, for two years as Senior Vice President leading client and industry relations, business development and marketing strategy for the public transit business line in United States and Canada. She spent two years at the Federal Transit Administration as Senior Advisor and in the last nine months of the Obama Administration she served as the Acting Administrator. From 2010 to 2015 she served as Chief Executive Officer/Director of Public Transit for Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS). Prior to joining the City of Charlotte, Flowers was Chief Operations Officer for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Flowers recently served on the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Board of Directors. She also served on the Board of Directors for the North American Transit Services Association (NATSA), the profit services arm of the APTA association. She also served a term on the Executive Committee of the Transit Cooperative Research Board and is currently serving on several other industry and association boards; Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Oversight and Project Selection, Eno Center for Transportation an was previously on Women’s Transportation Seminar International Board (WTS) She is currently an independent director for National Express (member of the Audit, Nominations and Safety Committees and Chair of the Sustainability Committee) and Neology Corp. She previously served on the board of directors at MV Transportation and Cubic Corporation (member of Executive Compensation and Strategy/Technology Committees). She previously served on Johnson C. Smith University Board of Visitors, the Foundation for the Carolinas Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fund Board of Directors, the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) Board and the advisory Board for the Women’s Intercultural Exchange (WIE). She received a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science and a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).