Professional Experience
Dr Mark Smith has provided construction and programme advisory services for over thirty years, serving in key management consulting positions around the globe Mark has led capital project consulting practices across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Africa He currently leads Deloitte Middle East’s Infrastructure Capital Projects team and is based in Dubai, UAE.
Mark is recognised as one of the leading experts in building capabilities and designing organisations to deliver mega projects and large scale programmes Mark has served clients across the entire project ecosystem, including global engineering construction companies, emerging market governments, infrastructure fund investors and large multinational conglomerates H e brings his pioneering vision and approach to the delivery of some of the largest infrastructure projects in the world.
World Class Examples
With his strong foundation in Civil Engineering, Construction and Project Management, Mark has applied his distinguished leadership to large scale projects with a combined value of over one hundred billion dollars Some of his notable career highlights include the development of innovative construction management approaches on one of the first giga projects ever, a twenty year dam and power station construction programme for the China Ministry of Water Resources, which included the Three Gorges Dam The novel approaches he developed were applied to successfully deliver control and management of the many projects Mark also led the initial rollout of the World Bank’s City Resilience Programme Using digital design technology to map financial decision making, over ninety emerging market cities were empowered to design and build infrastructure for greater resilience to climate change Currently, Mark is leading Deloitte’s efforts at NEOM in Saudi Arabia, arguably the largest infrastructure program in the world, for several proponents including The LINE’s governance and PMO setup and as the senior lead executive on the Gulf of Aqaba proponent EPMO.
Education Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in Construction Engineering and Project Management – The University of Texas at Austin
- Master of Science in Civil Engineering – Oklahoma State University
- Licensed Professional Engineer(PE) – State of Texas, USA
- Certified Public Accountant(CPA) – State of California, USA
- Certified Project Management Professional(PMP)