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 maintenance, design and construction operations on the agency’s 294-mile system of five roadways serving nearly 1.6 million daily drivers in Northern Illinois.

Currently, with more than 25 years as a professional engineer, he and his Engineering and Planning teams are responsible for delivering the Illinois Tollway’s 16-year, $15 billion Move Illinois capital program, now in its 13th year.

Nashif joined the Tollway in 2005 as a senior project engineer and later 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 cashless 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.

Nashif earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in civil engineering from University of Illinois – UrbanaChampaign.