Chris Cole FREng

Chair of the Board and member of the Governance, Ethics and Compensation Committee, WSP Global Inc.

Chris Cole has over 50 years’ significant entrepreneurship and leadership management experience in building an outstanding consulting engineering-based business globally. Chris was a founder of WSP in 1972 and grew the consulting engineering firm to become one of the largest and most respected companies in the world, employing over 65,000 professional engineers operating globally. Chris was appointed as the chancellor of FIDIC Academy in Switzerland with a global mandate to deliver cost-effective and digitally agile capacity-building training for the global FIDIC ecosystem. Chris was Chair of ACE, Vice Chair of CIC, and contributed to policy and standard formulation for the industry.