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Vice President Finance and Business Management

Appointment: Rail Business Unit Manager of Parsons Brinckerhoff

Biographical Details:

David Hutchison is Rail Business Unit Manager of Parsons Brinckerhoff in Scotland.  He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1975 and has been employed in consulting engineering since then, having worked for Halcrow, James Williamson and Partners and Rendel Palmer and Tritton before taking up his present appointment.   David spent three years in Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s on the Commercial Harbour of the Port of Jubail before returning to the UK to work on the supervision of construction of the M4 to M40 Section of the M25. More recently he was Project Director for the design of the Edinburgh Tram system.

He is Vice President of the ICE with responsibility for Finance and Business Management. He has been a Member of Council since 2003. David is a  Past Chairman of Glasgow & West of Scotland Region and has served on that committee as Honorary Treasurer, then as Vice Chairman before becoming Chairman in September 2002. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the modernisation process being undertaken by the Institution at present, and is passionate about bringing the work of Council and of the Regions more closely together thereby increasing recognition of the importance of the role of the Regions in the future prosperity of the ICE.