Shawn Leight works to develop transportation solutions that support community values by forging relationships and advancing forward thinking solutions. Shawn has more than 20 years of experience in transportation engineering and planning and has worked in every stage of project development. He is the vice president and a principal owner of CBB, where he manages project delivery and business development.
Shawn has played a key role in several innovative projects in the St. Louis region such as the reconstruction of I-64, which was awarded the 2010 AASHTO America’s Best Transportation Project in the United States. Shawn also served as project manager for the development of the Downtown St. Louis Multi-modal Transportation Plan, which won the America Planning Association Silver Level Achievement in Transportation and an Outstanding Local Government Award for leadership in planning by East West Gateway in 2019.
Shawn has served as an adjunct professor of transportation engineering at Washington University in St. Louis since 2003, where many of his 350+ students are now leaders in the transportation profession. Shawn supports the transportation industry by serving on boards and committees for professional organizations. He was the 2017 International President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Shawn’s work in the St. Louis region has been featured on KMOX and St. Louis Public Radio as well as in St. Louis Magazine and the River Front Times.
Education
Master of Science, Transportation Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1997
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy at West Point, 1993
Favorite thing about working at CBB...
We make a real and positive difference in the communities that we work in.
