Dr Sujatha Manoj has about 32 years’ experience in senior technical and managerial roles in contracting/consulting/client organizations. A Fellow of Engineers Australia and a Chartered Civil and Geotechnical Engineer, Sujatha is also a member of Standards Australia Committee and author of several publications in high impact journals and conferences. A subject matter expert with core geotechnical engineering expertise, she has been responsible as Geotech Lead for major multibillion-dollar projects of national level importance, large transport infrastructure and building projects as well as several oil and gas projects and power projects handling of all geotechnical components of a project from planning and design to construction and maintenance stages including scoping and managing data acquisition and investigations to analysis, advise and design.