Peter Hansford is an Executive Director of the Nichols Group, London.  He is a specialist in project and programme management, with over 30 years experience in the creation, development and execution of major projects.  He has worked for government, public and private clients, consultants and contractors in a variety of industry sectors in the UK and overseas.  He has been appointed as an Expert in project management.
   
At the Nichols Group, Peter is engaged in strategic consulting and advising on infrastructure developments and capital investment programmes.  He has carried out strategic reviews in various industry sectors, including the Scottish Parliament Building, the Highways Agency´s major roads programme, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority´s capital projects portfolio, Network Rail´s enhancements programme, and a number of rail and power station projects.  He has managed and advised on multi-million pound infrastructure contracts.  Peter was appointed as an expert witness for an arbitration on a project in Dubai in 2008 and as an expert for a case in the Technology and Construction Court in London in 2009.  He is Deputy Chairman of the Independent Dispute Avoidance Panel for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
 
Peter´s early career was with Amey Roadstone Construction, followed by Maunsell Consultants Asia in Hong Kong.  He joined Nichols in 1986 as a consultant and was assigned as engineering manager for the Docklands Light Railway City Extension, followed by project manager for the Beckton Extension.  He was appointed managing director of Nichols Associates Ltd in 1996.  Peter was Executive Director Infrastructure at the Strategic Rail Authority from 2000 to 2002 and was a founding non-executive Board Member of Cross London Rail Links Limited, the Crossrail company.  He was a partner at Gardiner & Theobald from January 2003 to June 2004.

Peter served as a Vice President of ICE from 2005 to 2008, firstly as VP Finance and Business Management and latterly as VP Membership and Diversity.  He was elected as a succeeding Vice President from May 2009.  He has been a member of Council, initially from 2000 to 2008, and latterly since May 2009, Chairman of the Finance Committee from 2003 to 2006, non-executive Chairman of Thomas Telford Limited from January 2008 to November 2009, and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2002.
 
Peter chaired the Legal Action Working Group, set up by Council to consider the ICE´s policy in relation to corporate manslaughter and associated legislation, and was a member of the Governance Working Party.  He chaired the expert panel on procurement as part of the Engineering without Frontiers Presidential Commission.  He currently chairs the New Contracts Board, which oversees the NEC suite of contracts and the development of new contracts.  His earlier service to ICE includes membership of the Engineering Project Management Forum (1990-94), Engineering Management Committee (1993-95), Procurement Forum (1995-97), Management Board (1997-2000) and Commercial Management Board (1998-2000).

Peter is a graduate in civil engineering from the University of Nottingham and in business administration from the Cranfield School of Management.  He is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management.