Adam Tindall-Schlicht

Adam Tindall-Schlicht represents Ramboll Group on the Industry Leaders Circle and serves as President of the ILC since February 2026. A senior executive in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region, Adam and is an internationally recognized policy leader in transportation, infrastructure, and port management.

A lifelong Wisconsinite, Adam served from 2018 to 2022 as Director of Port Milwaukee, where he oversaw operations generating more than $100 million in annual economic activity and delivered nationally recognized public-private partnerships and capital projects that transformed the city’s industrial waterfront. In 2022, he was appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden as the 11th Administrator of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. In this U.S. Department of Transportation executive role, Adam oversaw binational maritime operations, federal capital programs, and stakeholder coordination across the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Seaway system. He also spearheaded the Green Shipping Corridor Network (GSCN), a landmark U.S.–Canada initiative to accelerate the transition to low- and zero-emission shipping across the region.

Since 2025, Adam has served as Sector Lead for Ports, Transportation, and Infrastructure at Ramboll, an international engineering and consulting firm. In this role, he advises public- and private-sector clients on planning and delivering climate-smart infrastructure and sustainable transportation strategies across the United States and Canada.

Adam serves on several regional planning and conservation boards by appointment of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, including the Great Lakes Commission, the Council of the Great Lakes Region, and the Great Lakes Observing System. His likeness appears as a character in Katie Meyer’s children’s book Gust, celebrating maritime environmental stewardship on the Great Lakes, and his wedding to his husband Aaron was featured in The New York Times. They are raising their young daughter in Milwaukee.

In 2025, Adam received the inaugural Anchor Award from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Annual Conference in recognition of his career contributions.