 Mike Adams is US construction giant Bechtel’s most senior person in the UK. NCE talks to him and some recent Bechtel graduates about global opportunities on offer. Since starting as a business on the railways of Oklahoma in 1898, United States firm Bechtel has grown to become one of the biggest privately owned infrastructure operations in the world. With 52,700 employees and revenues of $27.9bn (£17.4bn) last year, its ambitions remain global, with its focus on markets in developed and developing nations as they strive for growth. Mike Adams, civil business unit president, is leading the charge from London. A US-born civil engineer with an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, he is the man heading the firm’s multi-disciplinary UK staff base. The UK team is, he points out, 98% British with the other 2% coming from outside the US. “I’m very much the exception,” he jokes of his US citizenship. “But I do have a British passport and have spent the last 22 years working outside the States.” |
Interview of Ambassador
Dayan Jayatilleka
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Dayan Jayatilleka
Sri Lanka is profiled in the latest issue of the French independent review La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter): "Sri Lanka, Future Hub of the Indian Ocean Rim?"
La Lettre Diplomatique was founded in 1988. The review carries interviews of key actors in the world of diplomacy and international relations. Its articles present the insights and prognoses of experts who keep close watch on the fast-changing geopolitical and strategic landscape, and carefully analyze the stakes of globalization.
Also featured in the current edition are reports on Russia, Tanzania, El Salvador and Kosovo.
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