Newsha Taheri

Newsha Taheri, PMP, is a Program Manager with over 12 years of experience in construction and infrastructure project planning, including five years leading global data center initiatives at Meta. Her expertise spans long-range planning to support data center capacity planning, pre-construction scheduling, and full project lifecycle management. At Meta, she also led the development of internal reporting systems and KPI dashboards to support executive decision-making, enabling real-time monitoring of operational metrics and trend analysis across global data center programs. Newsha previously taught Construction Planning and Management Systems at UCLA Extension. She holds an M.S. in Construction Management from USC and a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from UCLA.