Nelson Ogunshakin

He is currently chief executive officer of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC)[1] based in Geneva, Switzerland.

He also held senior positions at WSP Global, AEO Group and in 2004, he became chief executive of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering.

As FIDIC CEO, Ogunshakin has repositioned and reinvigorated the organisation to represent the global consulting engineering sector.

In October 2012, Ogunshakin became co-chair of the National Infrastructure Plan Strategic Engagement Forum, providing strategic direction to the execution of the £350 billion plan, working in collaboration with the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP and Chief Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Deighton KBE.

As a board member of HS2, Ogunshakin’s duties include ensuring effective governance of the company so that it makes decisions at the right time and properly manages risks, the directing and shaping of the agenda for the company to ensure that it delivers stated priorities, monitoring performance and risk, making choices (or recommendations to ministers) on priorities and ‘risk appetite’ and overseeing healthy relations between HS2 and its stakeholders and commercial partners.