Jacqueline Whitelaw (29 May 1957 – 20 July 2021), usually credited as Jackie Whitelaw, was a British technical journalist and editor, based in London. She focused on civil engineering, infrastructure, and transportation planning topics.
Early life
Whitelaw completed a degree in history and archaeology at the
University of Exeter in 1978.[1]
Career
After college, Whitelaw joined the staff of New Civil Engineer, initially as a secretary to the managing director. She served as the magazine's deputy editor from 1998 to 2009,[1] and wrote profiles and reports for the magazine as a freelancer after 2009.[2][3] From 2011 to 2013, she was editor of Transportation Professional, a publication of the
Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT),[4][5][6] focusing especially on London's transportation planning around the
2012 Summer Olympics.[7] From 2014 to 2015 she was co-founder and associate editor of Infrastructure Intelligence,[8] an online news service under the auspices of the
Association for Consultancy and Engineering.[9] She also wrote for Public Finance.[10][11]