Alasdair Dawson joins Steer Davies Gleave

Steer Davies Gleave is pleased to announce the appointment of Alasdair Dawson as an Associate. Alasdair is an experienced program manager with extensive international expertise in transportation and energy projects. He joins Steer Davies Gleave 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 program 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 organizational planning. 

From 2009 to 2011, Alasdair was an operations manager for a challenging thermal energy program in South Africa, working in collaboration with the client project manager and program executive team to deploy people from around the world to the project. During his time there, he facilitated several organizational changes initiated by the client to enable a wider knowledge transfer objective of the program. 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 organizations to jointly solve problems. 

At Steer Davies Gleave he will support our project sponsorship, infrastructure investment and rail programs 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 program environments, such as for the California High Speed Rail Authority.”