Carolyn Flowers — Senior Vice President and National Transit Practice Leader at AECOM

Ms. Carolyn Flowers serves as Senior Vice President and National Transit Practice Leader at AECOM. Ms. Flowers serves as an Acting Administrator of U.S. Department Of Transportation Federal Transit Administration. Ms. Flowers served as Chief Executive Officer of City of Charlotte (formerly, Charlotte North Carolina) since January 2010. Ms. Flowers served as the Chief Operating Officer of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She served in financial positions in both the public and private sectors. She served as Budget Director for the City of Beverly Hills, as a Financial Manager at Wang Laboratories and as a Financial Analyst and Budget Officer at Rockwell International Automotive Operations. She serves as an Executive Director for Charlotte Area Transit System at City of Charlotte. She was named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar in 2008. She received the Ambassador award for her volunteer work with the American Stroke Association and was given a special recognition award by the Greater Los Angeles African-American Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Flowers earned a Bachelor's of Art from UCLA in History and Political Science and a Master's in Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.