Michael Nolan has extensive experience in the development of strategic transport infrastructure projects in Ireland. He was appointed as the first Chief Executive of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)
in 2015, which merged the National Roads Authority (NRA) and the Railway Procurement Agency. He had worked in increasingly senior positions for the predecessor organisation, the NRA, and held the position of Head of Major Projects and Programme Management between 2007 and 2015. He retired from TII in 2020. Most of his career has been in public service, including working for many years with various local authorities in the delivery of major roads infrastructure. He is a graduate of NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin, and has graduated with a Masters in Major Programme Management from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.