High-Speed 2 Limited: Non-Executive Board Director, jointly responsible for the programme reset and strategic turnaround, corporate governance, programme management, financial performance, and construction delivery of the new railway between London and Birmingham, with an overall estimated cost of £65 billion to £85 billion.
Connecting Places Catapult: Non-Executive Board Director and member of the Remuneration Committee, providing corporate governance and strategic direction for the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, with annual turnover of more than £45 million.
Transport for London (TfL): Non-Executive Board Member, providing corporate governance and strategic direction to the Transport Commissioner and TfL Executive Team for London’s multimodal transport system, serving a population of 8.5 million and generating annual revenue of £12.0 billion. He chaired the Programmes and Investment Committee, overseeing an annual capital programme of close to £4.0 billion, and served as a member of the Remuneration Committee.
FIDIC Transformation: As Chief Executive Officer, he led the overall restructuring and repositioning programme and global operations of FIDIC, representing more than one million engineering professionals and 40,000 firms across over 100 countries.
FIDIC Global Leadership Forum: He established a structured programme that convenes more than 200 global C-suite leaders and championed the successful annual delivery of a thought leadership platform addressing the strategic challenges facing the global infrastructure industry.
FIDIC Credentialing Services: He established FIDIC’s credentialing services and led the successful rollout of its governance framework and global online certification process, while serving as Vice Chair of the Management Governance Board.
FIDIC Academy: He restructured the existing training programme and led the successful rollout of its governance framework and global online certification process, while serving as Vice Chancellor of the Senate Management Board.
FIDIC Strategic Partnership with Multilateral Development Banks: He led the development of relationships with global multilateral development banks, resulting in five-year strategic licensing agreements with eight institutions—the World Bank, Development Bank of Africa, African Development Bank, New Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Caribbean Development Bank, and Islamic Development Bank—for the adoption and use of FIDIC contract standards across infrastructure procurement programmes estimated at more than US$195 billion annually.
FIDIC Global infrastructure Conference: He championed the restructuring, revitalisation, and successful delivery of the rebranded annual FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference, held online in 2020 and 2021 and in person in Berlin (2018), Mexico City (2019), Geneva (2022), and Singapore (2023), with attendance exceeding 600 delegates worldwide.
ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Funds (ARMHIIF):Chair of the Investment Committee for a US$250 million fund, responsible for assessing bankability, approving new investments, and overseeing portfolio divestments across infrastructure, power, and transport projects in West Africa (2015–present).
Depthwize: Independent Non-Executive Board Director, jointly responsible for the strategic development and corporate management of an oil exploration company operating in shallow-water fields along the West African coastline, strategic development, and corporate management of the oil exploration company, operating in the shallow wells along the West African coastline.
Estate and Infrastructure Exchange: Advisory Board member, advising the executive team on product development, market testing, and the rollout of the London-based infrastructure exchange platform prior to its acquisition by a private equity firm.
Deal-Pride / McGee Construction: Independent Non-Executive Board Director, responsible for repositioning the specialist contractor to expand its business into wider infrastructure construction projects, primarily across London and the Southeast, with annual turnover of close to £80 million.
National Infrastructure Plan: He provided strategic engagement advisory support on implementation of the UK National Infrastructure Plan, working with Infrastructure UK, HM Treasury, and the Cabinet Office on funding and procurement strategies. His primary focus included the Thames Tideway project (£3.5 billion), Hinkley Point C (£14.5 billion), and High Speed 2 (HS2) rail infrastructure (£45 billion).
Institution of Civil Engineers: He chaired a UK infrastructure industry-wide stakeholder panel that worked with HM Treasury to develop a behavioural change charter against which government departments would be assessed when considering value for money in annual infrastructure and construction capital programmes. projects.
Transport Hub Development: He led the planning, procurement, and delivery of several major airport projects, including Hong Kong International Airport, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and Athens International Airport.
PPP Delivery: He provided technical and financial advisory support to the lending consortium on the delivery of the US$2.5 billion Highway 407 toll road in Toronto, Canada.
Dispute Resolution: He facilitated the resolution of commercial disputes between joint venture design-and-build contractors Murray & Roberts and Siemens on the Taiwan High Speed Rail project.
Technical & Commercial Advisory: He served as technical and construction commercial adviser on the US$10 billion Great Man-Made River water pipeline project in Libya for the syndicated banks providing the project bond.
Project Development: He led the strategic planning, technical investigations, partner sourcing, EPC contract negotiations, corporate capacity building, and funding structure for the development of a new 2.5 million tonnes-per-year cement and power plant in Africa, with an estimated cost of US$3.6 billion.
European CEO Summit: He developed, planned, and delivered the annual European CEO Summit and industry benchmarking programme for consultancy and engineering firms, attracting more than 100 CEOs and executives to discuss global market dynamics, corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, investment appraisal, and operational and financial performance.
European CEO Summit: He developed, planned, and delivered the annual European CIO Summit for the engineering, construction, and wider infrastructure sector, attracting more than 80 CIOs to discuss market drivers for emerging technologies such as digital twins and artificial intelligence. The programme was developed in partnership with Bentley Systems Inc. from 2015 to 2018.
Lagos Lagoon Highway: Board Chair, responsible for corporate governance, business case development, fundraising, concession structuring, delivery execution, and operations for the proposed 70 km toll road project across Lagos, Nigeria (2024–present).
Construct-Africa: Chair of Industry Advisory Board responsible for corporate governance and strategic position of the capacity building and thought leadership organisation for construction and infrastructure across the African continent.
Aston University: Appointed as Trustee and Council Board member with collective responsibility for corporate governance, operations delivery, academy standard and profitability. He is also member of the Finance and Investment Committee and a visiting Professor of Infrastructure of delivery.
Dubai Financial Crisis: Played a key role in a high-level strategic negotiation on GBP£500 million sovereign debt management between Nakheel Group of Dubai and several UK Construction suppliers, resulting in a syndicated high-profile bank-workout Settlement, comprising a 40% cash payment & issue of a 60% bond over a 5-year period with an annual premium
FIDIC Conference London 2009: As CEO of ACE, planned, executed, and hosted the successful FIDIC 2009 Conference in London with attending delegates more than 750 Executives / CEOs from over 80 countries around the world.
Association for Consultancy & Engineering (ACE): Delivered a strategic turnaround andrepositioning, of the ACE organization, increasing the organisational turnover by 120% through organic, M&A, and start up diversification into supplementary services.
WSP Executive: Project Director for the delivery of the GBP£350 million Bull Ring Shopping Centre redevelopment in Birmingham, UK. Responsible for growing the WSP Building (Structure & Building Services) businesses in the Midlands and East Anglia, achieving the planned increase in turnover and profit for the region. Played a key role in the integration of the entire North and South Building businesses (GBP£5O million turnover / 650 staff), including the introduction of the sector-focused approach to service delivery.
Crossrail / Elizabeth Line: Non-Executive Board member and Chair of Programme and Investment Committee for the new Elizabeth Line (Previously known as Cross rail Project) Railway system, costing £18.0 billion, connecting West and East London, UK 2018-2022.