Monique R. Evans, P.E., serves as Director of Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, she reports to the Executive Director of TRB and has overall responsibility for the management, quality, efficiency, and strategic direction of the Cooperative Research Programs division. She oversees a broad portfolio of nationally significant applied research programs spanning highways, transit, airports, and behavioral traffic safety.

Ms. Evans leads a senior team of over 70 Program Officers and professional staff responsible for managing hundreds of active research projects funded by federal agencies, state departments of transportation, and other sponsors. She provides executive leadership for program development, fiscal stewardship, sponsor and volunteer engagement, human capital strategy, and external communications. In partnership with TRB leadership and stakeholders across the transportation community, she advances collaborative, consensus-driven research that delivers timely, evidence-based solutions to complex transportation challenges.

Monique Evans served as Director of the FHWA Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (EFLHD) from 2018-2024, addressing the transportation engineering needs of Federal Land Management Agencies and other interagency partners in the 31 states along and east of the Mississippi River as well as the District of Columbia, and the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She provided senior executive level leadership for over 260 employees in delivering more than 200 annual road and bridge improvement projects on Federal and Tribal lands such as National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and Indian Reservations.

Ms. Evans joined FHWA in 2010 as the Director of the Office of Safety Research and Development at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, where until 2018 she provided executive leadership and guidance for improving and advancing transportation safety-related technologies and innovations through research, development and testing. During the eight years Ms. Evans was the Director of Safety R&D, she also served temporary terms as the Acting Director of the Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management and as the Acting Associate Administrator for Research, Development and Technology and Director of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. Prior to joining FHWA, Ms. Evans served in roles of increasing authority with the Ohio Department of Transportation spanning approximately 20 years, with her last position being the Administrator of the Office of Research and Development, in which she oversaw the strategic development and overall delivery of ODOT’s transportation research program and transformed it into a nationally recognized model for research program management.