Manar Nashif is the chief engineering officer with the Illinois Tollway and is responsible for the policies, practices and procedures of the Engineering Department, which oversees all design and construction operations on the agency's 294-mile system of five roadways serving more than 1.6 million daily drivers in Northern Illinois.

Currently, he and his Engineering teams are responsible for delivering the Illinois Tollway's 15-year, $14 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.

In his more than 25 years as a professional engineer, Mr. Nashif has spent about 17 years with the Illinois Tollway.

He joined the Tollway in 2005 as a senior project engineer and, prior to his appointment to acting chief engineering officer, served as a deputy chief of program implementation. In that role, he took on responsibility for the design and construction of the Illinois Route 390 Tollway – the first entirely all-electronic tolling roadway on the Tollway system – and the new I-490 Tollway as part of the Elgin O’Hare Western Access Project.

Prior to the Tollway, he worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation after beginning his professional engineer career in the private sector.

Mr. Nashif earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign.