Alasdair Dawson joins Steer Davies Gleave as an Associate

Steer Davies Gleave is pleased to announce the appointment of Alasdair Dawson as an Associate in our London-based Advisory team.  

Alasdair is an experienced programme manager with extensive international expertise in transportation and energy projects. He joins from spending a year at University College London completing an MSc in infrastructure investment and finance. Prior to this, while on secondment to the California High-Speed Rail programme for three years, he was responsible for integrating requirements and developing commercial documentation for the first $6 billion of civil contracts and complementary oversight contracts. He also provided capability in land acquisition planning, schedule and contingency risk analysis and organisational planning. 

From 2009 to 2011, Alasdair was an operations manager for a challenging thermal energy programme in South Africa, working in collaboration with the client project manager and programme executive team to deploy people from around the world to the project. During his time there, he facilitated several organisational changes initiated by the client to enable a wider knowledge transfer objective of the programme. Amongst other projects, Alasdair was responsible for leading the client team to re-negotiate a project services contract worth approximately $9 million between the client and another government facilities management entity.  

Alasdair has over 13 years of experience managing challenging projects and leading and facilitating teams to solve complex and often time-sensitive problems. His exposure to international projects has led to a highly collaborative style of working with an ability to connect elements of organisations to jointly solve problems. 

At Steer Davies Gleave he will support our project sponsorship, infrastructure investment and rail programmes both in the UK and overseas.

Mike Goggin, Director at Steer Davies Gleave said, “We are delighted to welcome Alasdair to Steer Davies Gleave. He brings further excellent insights and capability in the management of multidisciplinary teams and experience of working in major programme environments such as for the California High Speed Rail Authority.”