P. (paul) Sheffield
board member
Business & Management
bam
Netherlands
Biography
Mr Sheffield studied civil engineering at the University of Surrey (United Kingdom). He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow at the British Institution of Civil Engineers. From 1983 to 2014 he was employed by the Kier Group, a large British construction and property development group, listed on the London stock exchange, where he held a number of management positions. During the first years of his career, Mr Sheffield was involved as an engineer in various projects in New Guinea, Turkey and the UK. Thereafter, he was responsible for projects in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong as a project manager. In 1998 he became Director of Operations of the Civil Division and in the following year he was appointed Managing Director of that same division. In 2005 he joined the Board of the Kier Group where he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in 2010. In 2014 Mr Sheffield left the Kier Group for Laing O’Rourke, one of the largest private construction companies of the United Kingdom, where he was a member of the Group Executive Committee until 2017, responsible for the activities in Europe and the Middle East.
Research Interest
Business & Management
