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About FIDIC - Executive Committee (EC)
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Full details of members are given in the Directory. Members have an Internal area for working documents, etc.
  • John Boyd (President), Canada
  • Gregs Thomopulos (Vice-President), USA
  • Flemming Bligaard Pedersen (Treasurer), Denmark
  • Patrick Batumbya, Uganda
  • Pablo Bueno Tómas, Spain
  • Geoff French, UK
  • Subhash Mehrotra, India
  • Xie Shaozhang, China
  • Adam Thornton, New Zealand
  • Enrico Vink, FIDIC Managing Director
  • Peter Boswell, FIDIC General Manager

Boyd  John BOYD (Canada), President

John M Boyd P.Eng., PhD, is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc., Geological Engineering, 1966 and M.A.Sc., Structural Geology, 1967), the University of London (D.I.C., Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics, 1970) and the Imperial College (Ph.D., Engineering and Rock Mechanics, 1976). John has been in the consulting engineering business for 33 years with Golder Associates. Fifteen of those years were in senior management roles including operating company President and most recently, Vice-President, Operations, at the corporate level. 
 
John has participated as a Director in several of the Boards of companies in the Golder group, was a Director and later Chairman of the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research, Member of the Faculty Advisory Board of McGill University Engineering Faculty, Director and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers Canada, and a Director and subsequently President of Peel Red Cross. He was recently Chair of the Steering Committee of an HRDC program to encourage young people to study engineering at university.

John has been focussing in recent years on business and management training of engineers both within Golder and externally - and in particular on the issue of sustainable development. He was responsible for the FIDIC Sustainable Development Task Force that developed a system of sustainability indicators for engineering project use on behalf of FIDIC's 79 member countries, and included participation from Canada, the United States and United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, South Africa, and Japan. The guidelines for the use of the system (Project Sustainability Management) were published in September 2004 and John has been busy training diverse groups of engineers around the world in their application.
 
Thomopulos  Gregs THOMOPULOS (USA), Vice-President
 
Gregs Thomopulos has over 43 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Stanley Consultants, Inc.,USA. Stanley Consultants provides engineering, environmental and construction services worldwide and operates from 18 offices in the United States and eight offices overseas. The organization, founded in 1913, has successfully completed more than 23,000 engagements in all 50 states and 98 countries and is ranked among the largest engineering companies in the United States.
 
Mr. Thomopulos received a B.S. (with highest distinction) in Civil Engineering from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, by Teikyo Marycrest University, Davenport, Iowa.
Mr. Thomopulos is a licensed professional engineer in 14 states and Puerto Rico and is a fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of the Iowa Engineering Society and the National Society of Professional Engineers. He has served on the advisory boards of the University of Iowa College of Engineering, the Iowa Institute of Hydraulics Research, and the International Center for Water Resources at Central State University. He currently serves on the advisory board of the University of Kansas School of Engineering. Mr. Thomopulos has served on numerous community and professional committees including the board of Goodwill Industries of Eastern Iowa and the Committee of Fellows of ACEC. Currently he is Senior Vice Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of ACEC . He served as a member of the board of directors of Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa and South Dakota from 1999 to 2008.
 
Flemming Pedersen  Flemming Bligaard PEDERSEN (Denmark), Treasurer

Flemming Bligaard Pedersen, who speaks Danish, English, German and French, has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the RAMBŘLL Group, Denmark, since the merger of RAMBŘLL and Scandiaconsult in 2003. He received a MSc in structural engineering in 1973, and a PhD in structural dynamics in 1997, both from the Technical University of Denmark, and completed the Business Leadership Colloqium DIEU. Flemming started his career as a professor at the Technical University before joining RAMBŘLL in 1977, becoming successively a division head, a Management Board member, Technical Director, Deputy Managing Director and Managing Director. He served as a Board Member (1997 - 2001) and President of FRI, the FIDIC Member Association for Denmark, playing an important role in the transformation of the association into a business oriented organization. He is a member of the Society of Danish Engineers, and of several other Danish technical societies.
 
Batumbya  Partick BATUMBYA (Uganda), Member
 
Patrick  Batumbya became Managing Director and Principal Engineer of MBW Consulting Engineers, Kampala, Uganda, in 1996, having joined Bridger and Harris Consulting Engineers as a Pupil Engineer in 1972, and working successively as a Structural Engineer, Principal Engineer, Chief Engineer and Senior Partner with the National Housing and Construction Corp., Uganda, and with three other consulting engineering firms. Patrick has a BSc(Hons) in Engineering from Nairobi University, is registered with the Uganda Registration Board and was elected a Fellow of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers. He served as the UACE-Uganda Chairman in 2002-3, and as the Chairman of the FIDIC Group of African Member Associations in 2004-7. He has undertaken regular assignments for many international agencies, including the World Bank.
 
Bueno Tomas  Pablo BUENO TÓMAS (Spain), Member
 
Pablo  Bueno Tómas has been the Chief Executive Officer of TYPSA Group since 2003. He graduated with a MSc in civil engineering from the Technical University of Madrid in 1988, and undertook an Advanced Management Programme at IESE, Madrid, in 2002. He has worked with Typsa since 1987, initially as an engineer and becoming Managing Director for Spain before taking up his present position. Pablo has participated as a project manager in the design and supervision of numerous infrastructure projects, both nationally and internationally. He is a chartered Civil Engineer, a Board Member of the Spanish Tunnelling Association, an Executive Committee member of the Spanish association TECNIBERIA and Vice-President of the European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations. He has contributed extensively to translations and training involving FIDIC contracts.
 
French  Geoff FRENCH (UK), Member

Geoff French has been Group Chairman, Scott Wilson, since 2002 with overall responsibility for 3,600 staff in some 80 countries worldwide. He moved to management in Scott Wilson after 25 years experience in transportation, development and engineering advice supplied to both public and private clients around the world, becoming successively a partner in 1985, a Director on the firm’s incorporation in 1995, and Managing Director. He has lived and worked in the UK, Africa, Hong Kong and Iraq. Geoff has an engineering degree from Southampton University, UK, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers and of the Institution of Highways and Transportation and a member of the Chartered Institution of Logistics and Transportation. Scott Wilson has provided Board Members and committee members to the UK’s Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE) for several decades, and Geoff has chaired a number of ACE task forces.
 
Mehrotra  Subhash MEHROTRA (India), Member

Subhash Mehrotra is currently Chief Executive and Principal Consultant of Mehro Consultants, New Delhi. He was awarded a B.Tech (Civil Engineering) 
And a M.Tech (Structural Engineering) with distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and his professional experience of 33 years includes structural design and project management for commercial and residential buildings, hospitals, industrial structures, and public infrastructure, including 200 tall buildings and 30 airport terminal buildings. He has published many technical papers and his designs have won several prestigious awards. Subhash has organized major conferences including the FIDIC Global Contract Conditions for the Construction Industry seminar in 2001, for which he edited the event's 300-page proceedings. He currently serves as a President of the Consulting Engineers Association of India (CEAI), having been Honorary Secretary and Vice-President, and is a member of the FIDIC Business Practices Committee and Chair of the FIDIC Task Force on Guarantees and Bid Bonds.
 
Xie  XIE Shaozhang (China), Member

Xie Shaozhang is Executive Director and Senior Engineer of Sino-American CHELBI Engineering Consultants, Inc. He has more than 20 years of engineering consulting experience in providing services to a variety of major road and bridge construction projects in China representing a total investment of USD 48 billion. Aside from his consulting work, Mr. Xie is also active in the research and development of software for an integrated Computer Aided Design (CAD) system for major highway routes as part of China’s 7th National Five-Year Plan. Shaozhang lectures at the FIDIC – Tsinghua University - CNAEC Training Centre on FIDIC contracts and project management, and has trained more than 2,600 engineers and related professionals from 20 provinces on CAD, international bidding documents, project management and quality control. His other FIDIC activities include membership of the Steering and Organization Committees of FIDIC 2005 Beijing and of the Quality of Construction Task Force, Business Practices Committee.
 
Thornton  Adam THORNTON (New Zealand), Member

Adam Thornton became Managing Director of Dunning Thornton Consultants, which he helped established, in 1986. He received a BE(Hons) in Civil Engineering from Canterbury University, New Zealand, and joined Morrison Cooper and Partners in 1974 as a design engineer before taking more senior design engineering positions with Bruce-Smith Chapman and Amos, and with Holmes Wood Poole and Johnson. Alan is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers, New Zealand, a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Member of the International Professional Engineering Register. He has served on the FIDIC ASPAC Executive Committee and currently serves on the FIDIC Business Practice Committee, the FIDIC Risk and Liability Committee, and the Definitions of Scope Task Force.
 
Thornton  Enrico VINK, FIDIC Managing Director

Enrico Vink, was born in New Zealand, of Dutch parentage. He has university degrees in German and Spanish. From 1980 to 1990 he was employed by the New Zealand Department of Trade and Industry, where he worked on industrial development projects and on trade policy issues. During this time he spent four years as a Trade Commissioner at the New Zealand Embassy in Bonn. From 1990 to 2004 Enrico was with the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand, the latter ten years as Chief Executive. During that period the Association membership more than doubled in size, thanks in part to the outsourcing of almost all public sector engineering work to the private sector. In September 2004, he was appointed the FIDIC Managing Director. He is a strong advocate for best practice in association management and was a founding member of the New Zealand Society of Association Executives in 1994 and became President 1999-2001. Through ACENZ, he also became a founding member of the New Zealand Construction Industry Council, and chaired the task group on Best Practice Procurement.
 
Boswell  Peter BOSWELL, FIDIC General Manager

Dr. Peter Boswell, FIDIC General Manager, was born and educated in Kenya and received an MA and a PhD in materials engineering from Cambridge and MIT, respectively. He worked as a process engineer with Boeing and Ford in their development centres in Seattle and Dearborn before becoming an Australian mining industry Government Research Fellow attached to Mount Isa Mines and the University of Brisbane, Australia. In 1979, he joined Anglo American’s Johnson Matthey at its development centre in the UK, becoming Principal Engineer. Following joint projects with Battelle, he joined Battelle Geneva as the Group Manager, Process Engineering, responsible for designing and implementing advance materials processing plant. In 1986, he joined the European Physical Society, Geneva, as the Director responsible for publications and public relations. Dr. Boswell is a Chartered Engineer (UK), EurIng and EurPhys, and a member of professional materials engineering associations in the US, UK and Australia. He belongs to professional associations for association management, conference organization and publishing and holds some 40 patents, has published over 100 technical articles and is the co-author of several conference proceedings. 
 
Committee Terms of Reference are:
  1. To be responsible for the administration and management of the Federation in all matters not explicitly within the competence of the General Assembly as defined in the Statues.
  2. To carry out the resolutions of the General Assembly.
  3. To prepare an annual report, formulate and modify By-Laws and endorse audited annual accounts for ratification by the General Assembly.
  4. To appoint members of Standing committees and Task Forces, approve their Terms of Reference, and monitor their activities.
  5. To nominate persons of Liaison responsibilities, as required.
  6. To conduct strategic planning for FIDIC including:
    - the continuous assessment of developments affecting our industry;
    - the planning of actions to reposition FIDIC, when required;
    - the reviewing and updating of the Current Strategic Plan.
  7. To periodically review and update, or prepare, new policies where required.
  8. To represent FIDIC, as necessary, in order to maintain and enhance its image on the global scene, including:
    1. liaising with appropriate levels and officials of international organizations relevant to our interests;
    2. paying regular visits to MAs by EC members, Managing Director and General Manager;
    3. making available to interested parties/media FIDIC viewpoint on relevant issues;
    4. maintaining a highly professional image in all publications and presentations;
    5. working with MAs to support their Image Enhancement Programmes.

The Executive Committee will meet at least three times per year, once coincident with the Annual Conference. It will delegate the above duties among its members. One of its members, traditionally the Treasurer or President, will be responsible for the administration of the Secretariat.

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