Joanne Waddington has been appointed as head of strategic transport and delivery for Kirklees Council.
A transport leader with over two decades' experience working across strategy, sustainable transport, infrastructure and programme delivery, Ms Waddington's most recent role was senior project manager for Transport for Greater Manchester.
Prior to that, she also worked at the City of York Council as senior project manager and then as interim head of sustainable transport.
This was not Ms Waddington's first time working with Kirklees Council; she previously spent a long stint with the council running between 2006 and 2019.
Her first four years were spent as an engineer for transport strategy, but she then moved on to the position of principal engineer for transport strategy, which she held for seven years.
She closed out this first stint at Kirklees with a year and a half as a project officer for transport and major projects.
