Therese W. McMillan served from March 2019 to January 2023 as MTC’s executive director for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and as the top executive for the Association of Bay Area Governments. Ms. McMillan, who received her Bachelor of Science degree from U.C. Davis in 1981, a master’s degree in civil engineering science from U.C. Berkeley in 1983, and a master’s in city and regional planning from U.C. Berkeley in 1984, previously worked for 25 years at MTC, including more than eight years as MTC’s deputy executive director for policy. In 2009, she was appointed by then-...
MS/MCP (2008) Civil and Environmental Engineering, City and Regional Planning PhD (2019) MIT Dissertation: Delivering Urban Projects: Contracting, voice, and anti-corruption in infrastructure; Advisor: Gabriella Carolini (MIT)
Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications of Chile
Alumni
Juan Carlos Muñoz is the Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications of Chile. He earned both his MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Berkeley. He has extensive experience in academia, working in research areas focusing on transport operations, public transport systems, logistics and vehicular traffic theory, among others. Until his appointment as secretary, he was a full professor in the Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and...
Leighton Quon is the Deputy Director of Aeronautics at NASA Ames Research Center. His engineering experiences span 30 years in the Aerospace and Aeronautics disciplines within industry and government, inlcuding Defense, Transportation and Space. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and 2007 NASA Congressional Fellow. He holds a BS and MS in Engineering from UC Berkeley (1999).
Minister of State, Ministry of Infrastructure of Rwanda
Alumni
Patricie Uwase is passionate about infrastructure development, and she is putting that passion to work as the Minister of State for the Ministry of Infrastructure in her native Rwanda. In that role, she oversees budget preparation and execution for Rwanda’s infrastructure sector — about a third of the national budget. Uwase also leads teams of national agencies, engineers and other experts to implement Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation and its Vision 2050 for the infrastructure sector.
In addition, she serves on the boards of Rwanda’s national carrier, RwandAir, as well...
