ECI is staffed by engineering and construction professionals from a wide variety of sectors.
Michel Virlogeux
ECI President
Michel is a globally renowned engineer and has designed and built some of the world’s most famous bridges. He is a graduate and a visiting professor of the prestigous École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France.
He has been awarded the ”Award of Excellence of the Engineering News Record’ (1995), the ‘Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ (1979), the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2005) and the ‘Gustave Magnel Medal’ (1999).
He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering. Michel has been president of ECI since 2007.
John Oliver
ECI Chair
John was appointed to his current role as Head of Project Management with BG Group in June 2009. He joined them from the airport operator BAA where he was one of the Project Leaders for Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
During his 25 year career he has delivered major projects in a variety of sectors and has worked for BP, Dynegy and Enron. He has been involved in the origination, development, delivery and assessment of capital projects.
John is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Association for Project Management, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Member of the Energy Institute. In 2009 he was made a member of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, a City of London Livery Company, and is a Freeman of the City of London
ECI Consultants
Howard Lawrence
Howard Lawrence is a freelance Project Management Consultant with over 38 years experience in project management and public procurement practice including PPP and Prime Contracting.
His achievements include the successful delivery of major infrastructure and business/organisational change projects.
Clive Winkler
Following some 30 years experience as a Chartered Engineer, Clive set up as an independent practitioner to promote best practice.
Having had responsibility with a national contractor for the execution of a wide range of major projects he went on to develop the company’s approach to collaborative working and the procedures for managing its supply chain.
Clive has close associations with a number of organisations. He managed CIRIA’s Construction Productivity Network (CPN) for several years developing their programme of best practice improvement workshops and is currently assisting ECI in coordinating some of the research task forces and managing its Masterclass programme.
Clive is a BIS Benchmark Index accredited facilitator, a Qualified NVQ Assessor and a Construction Best Practice Programme Advisor.
ECI Researchers
Lars Baumann
Lars Baumann is a part-time researcher with ECI looking at the impact of national culture on project management practice.
Lars work has involved him in a wide variety of cross-cultural project management activities in countries as diverse as Algeria, Libya and Kuwait providing IT for the energy and construction sectors.
He is a self employedConsultant and Visiting Professor of Project Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover.
ECI Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellow status is awarded to nominated individuals in special circumstances in recognition of the considerable value, service and support they have given to ECI during the time that they have been associated with ECI.
The Honorary Fellow class of membership enables ECI to publicly acknowledge the value that has been added by individuals in the development of ECI over a considerable period of time. This could have resulted from the personal involvement, support and contribution given to specific ECI activities or in the way that the individual has continually promoted ECI’s aims and values, and/or the benefits that ECI has brought to the Engineering and Construction Industry through its members.
Honorary status applies for the lifetime of the individual irrespective of whether he or she continues to be employed by an ECI Member Company.