Dan McNichol is a number one best-selling author. For decades, his books have celebrated the nation’s greatest infrastructure projects. He is an award-winning journalist and public speaker who has written for the New York Times, contributing to a front-page story urging the president of the United States to “build something inspiring.”

As a national correspondent for ENR (Engineering News-Record magazine), McNichol drove across America in his rusty antique car, a 1949 Hudson, which became a metaphor for the nation’s broken infrastructure. He did this while reporting on the need to invest in civic projects.

A regular contributor to National Public Radio programs, McNichol appears in numerous major documentaries about infrastructure. He served the president of the United States as a White House appointee focused on transportation infrastructure policy. His highly regarded experience and insight have led to communication gigs on the nation’s largest infrastructure projects, including as a chief spokesman for Boston’s Big Dig, California’s High Speed Rail, and reconstruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.