Greg Cohen is President of the American Highway Users Alliance. Mr. Cohen serves the motoring public and highway advocates as their chief lobbyist pursuing federal policies that improve highway safety and reduce congestion. Members of The Highway Users include 300 businesses and associations that rely on safe and efficient roads to transport their employees, customers, and products.
Prior to joining The Highway Users in July 2002, Mr. Cohen served as a professional staff member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on the Highways and Transit Subcommittee where he was responsible for oversight of the Federal Highway Administration’s implementation of the 1998 highway bill. As a licensed Professional Engineer, Mr. Cohen’s primary role on the Committee was to provide policy assistance in areas of highway planning, engineering, and construction. Mr. Cohen worked on legislation to eliminate highway funding cuts and streamline environmental reviews and coordinated oversight hearings that laid the policy groundwork for the 2005 highway bill.
Before joining the Committee, he served as a Highway Engineer with the Maryland State Highway Administration where he managed capital project planning studies for major highway and multimodal projects. Mr. Cohen has a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Engineering in Transportation Engineering and Planning from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Mr. Cohen is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Transportation Engineers and is a fellow of the Eno Transportation Foundation.