Marina Morillas Lara

Marina has over 25 years of international experience in engineering, infrastructure, transportation and construction across the private and public sector. She has held senior management and delivery leadership roles with responsibility for multiple functions across diverse organisations in these fields.

Having joined Mott MacDonald’s advisory and programme delivery team in 2022, Marina was appointed global practice leader, project, programme and commercial management two years later. Currently, she forms part of the heavy civil infrastructure division within the transportation business unit.

Marina has a track record of successfully delivering major projects and programmes up to £500 million budget, using a broad range of funding and contract arrangements. She has managed large multidisciplinary and multicultural teams of over 100 people in multiple countries across Europe, Asia, America and Africa.

Marina has acted as an expert managing consultant and strategic adviser for clients around the world and demonstrated her deep expertise in project, programme and portfolio management. She is knowledgeable of best practice approaches and the use of cutting-edge tools across projects and programmes and has identified, designed and implemented business improvement and transformational change in highly regulated environments.