Yogita Maini is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers with over 30 years of experience delivering complex infrastructure programmes across the UK and internationally. As the first woman engineer to graduate from Botswana, she has been a pioneering advocate for diversity and inclusion throughout her career. She has led multidisciplinary teams on major projects valued at up to £100 billion, providing strategic leadership across engineering, health and safety, governance, risk, commercial management and stakeholder engagement. In her current role as HS2’s Lead Senior Project Engineer and Functional Lead for Principal Designer Coordination, she leads assurance and oversight of CDM 2015 compliance across one of Europe’s largest infrastructure programmes. Yogita has driven industry-leading innovation through the development of digital assurance solutions that have transformed design risk management across HS2. Her leadership has delivered significant efficiency savings, strengthened governance, improved compliance and contributed to raising industry standards in infrastructure delivery.