Jack Kenneth Lemley CBE (January 2, 1935 – November 29, 2021) was an American architect and engineering manager who led delivery of large infrastructure projects across the globe.
[2] One of his first major projects was construction of the King Khalid Military City in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Leading the project, he focused on reducing the time delays and had to negotiate with Eurotunnel to agree on who would bear the additional costs.
[1] He was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work on the Channel Tunnel by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996.
"[4] He was later credited by journalists such as John Sowell and Sven Berg of the Idaho Statesman as having rescued the Channel Tunnel project.
He worked in and led projects across 65 countries including Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Nepal, and Zimbabwe during his over fifty-year-long career.
[2][4] Lemley married his wife Pamela (née Hroza) after a previous marriage ended in divorce.
[1][10] In the late 1990s, Lemley bought a sloop, a single-masted sailboat named Coeur de Lion (transl.