BSc(Eng), CEng, FICE, FILT, FIHT
Senior Vice President
Geoff was Chairman of Scott Wilson for eight years until its acquisition by URS in September 2010.
Geoff is a civil engineering graduate who joined Scott Wilson in1968. Following the transition from partnership to limited company in 1995 he was appointed to Managing Director, initially of the business in the UK. He oversaw the growth of the Scott Wilson business both in the UK and the major international business centres around the world, ensuring the Group’s continuing position in the top ten UK engineering consultancies. He was appointed Chairman in 2002 and he oversaw the tripling of the Group revenue and the highly successful flotation in March 2006. In 2008 he became Non Executive Chairman of the Group.
In 2005 he was elected to the Executive Committee of FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers and became its President in October 2011, he is also a Past Chairman of the ACE (Association for Consultancy and Engineering) in the UK.
He became a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in November 2008.
Geoff became Chair of the Enterprise M3 LEP in the UK when it was created in early 2011. The LEPs remit is to increase economic growth across its area which encompasses almost all of Hampshire and most of Surrey, a total population of 1.6 million people.
He has over 40 years experience providing transportation and development advice to central government, banks, major developers, local government and international funding agencies. Projects for which he has been responsible for include the presentation of evidence at the Heathrow Terminal 5 inquiry, the Lesotho National Transport Study, Greater Nottingham Strategic Study, Warminster Bypass, the Johannesburg LRT Study, the Mauritius Public Transport Study, the Baghdad Comprehensive Transportation Study, the Saudi Arabia Public Transport Study and numerous studies of major retail and office developments.
Apart from working throughout the UK, Geoff has spent time abroad on behalf of Scott Wilson working in Botswana, China, Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Vietnam.