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Andrew McNaughton, FREng, CEng, FICE

Executive Director, Infrastructure Projects Delivery

Andrew has 40 years’ experience within the infrastructure sector in the UK and overseas. As both a project manager and an executive officer, he has been responsible for the delivery of many of the country’s major projects including High Speed One, London 2012 Olympics and Heathrow Terminal 5. He has held project management and executive positions at Systra, Kier Group and Balfour Beatty.

After joining AWE as a Non-Executive Director in 2021, Andrew accepted the position of Executive Director, Capital Programme in early 2023. He is responsible for the delivery of the company’s infrastructure investment programme, which will support the manufacture of the next generation of the UK’s nuclear deterrent.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has served as a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and was previously named Civil Engineering Manager of the Year by the Institution. In 2020, Andrew led a study on behalf of the ICE into the performance of infrastructure project delivery that led to a report, “Defining a Systems Approach to Infrastructure Delivery”, which was welcomed across the sector.

In December 2021, Andrew was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd, with specific responsibility for the investments in new infrastructure and equipment by MoD to support future at sea capability.

In June 2022, Andrew was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership, the University of Sydney, Australia.

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