Hisham Mirghani
Hisham Mirghani Consulting-FZE, UAE
Executive Director
Hisham Mirghani
Hisham A. Mirghani FICE, CEng, BSc (Civ. Eng), LLB, LLM, PhD is dual‑qualified in civil engineering and law. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), and a specialist in procurement and contracts management. He is also a Certified FIDIC Trainer and Certified FIDIC Procurement Specialist.
Hisham’s career spans more than 40 years, including over 20 years with consulting engineering firms in the UK and in Sudan, where he gained extensive experience in the design and supervision of major infrastructure projects. He also served for nine years as Contracts Manager with a large employer organisation in Sudan, playing a key role in the procurement of a hydropower development programme valued at over US$4 billion.
He recently retired from the Islamic Development Bank, where he led the Training Cluster within the Procurement Division for seven years. In this role, he oversaw the development and delivery of procurement and contracts management training for more than 4,000 public and private sector professionals across approximately 40 countries. He has since relocated to the UAE and established a procurement and contracts management consultancy.
Hisham is the author of two Arabic‑language books on construction laws in the MENA region. He received a Commendation in the 2015 Society of Construction Law Hudson Prize, and his award‑winning paper was later published by the UAE University Sharia & Law Journal in 2018.
