As Chief Executive Officer and a Principal of The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc. and Nielsen-Wurster Asia-Pacific Pty. Ltd., Dr. Patricia Galloway oversees all aspects of the firm’s Risk Management, Management Consulting and Dispute Resolution services. Dr. Galloway’s Risk Management experience includes project planning and ongoing project execution, risk assessment and analysis, trend evaluations and risk reduction plans for public and private projects in the transportation, infrastructure, power, process, oil and gas and building sectors. Dr. Galloway has written and lectured extensively on the subject of risk management and has served as an in-house instructor on risk management for both Owners and Contractors. She has served as an advisor to multiple Owner and Contractor clients and served as a member of various Risk Management assessment and review panels. In addition, Dr. Galloway has assisted and been actively involved in developing and setting up Risk Management corporate-wide programs for multinational companies around the world. Representative Project Specific Risk Management engagements include multibillion dollar Rail Projects, the Kuala Lumpur Airport, a pharmaceutical plant in Singapore and the Melbourne City Link Project in Australia. Engagements have included risk assessments and ongoing risk monitoring for EPC Contractors and Owners. She has also served as Project Manager and Scheduling Engineer for major projects (design, construction and fast track) using computer automated systems.

In Nielsen-Wurster’s Management Consulting Division, Dr. Galloway’s engagement experience includes analyses of Board of Directors roles and responsibilities, management structures and performance, evaluation of operations, management processes, contract development and form, project controls, contract administration, claims avoidance, schedule delay, value engineering and others. She has performed Management Consulting services for major US and non-US companies and public agencies including Japan and Australia throughout the construction, process, power and transportation sectors. She also lectures and presents seminars on project controls, management, Board of Director roles and responsibility and leadership to private firms, corporations and professional society organizations.

Mega projects, by industry definition, are very large investment projects that attract a high level of public attention or political interest because of substantial direct and indirect impacts on the community, environment, and budgets. They are generally defined as major infrastructure projects that cost more than $1 billion.

Dr. Galloway has significant global experience with mega projects costing several times this minimum definition. She has lead teams on engagements like Crossrail Project, London, United Kingdom at £10 billion; Consortium Contractor, Marine Facility, Europe at $6 billion; Rockport Works Steel Mill Facility, Rockport, Indiana, United States at $1.1 billion; Refinery Upgrade and Pipeline Project, North America at over $1 billion; and International LNG Terminal, North America at $1 billion.

Her Dispute Resolution engagement experience includes projects throughout the world: refineries, offshore platforms, oil depots, LNG facilities, petrochemical plants, gas pipelines and compression modules, power plants (nuclear, fossil fuel, gas-fired, combined-cycle, hydroelectric, waste-to-energy), hotels, casinos, stadiums, commercial offices, hospitals, universities, civic and convention centers, parking garages, process plants, wastewater treatment plants, landfills, airports, highways, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, railroads, port facilities, dams, bulk pharmaceutical plants, manufacturing and other projects.

Dr. Galloway has served as both a consulting and testifying expert. She has presented expert witness testimony in numerous formal court proceedings, domestic (AAA) and International arbitration forums (International) Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitrations, UNCITRAL, SAIC, London), and public utility rate hearings. Dr. Galloway also serves as an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association on both commercial and construction litigation cases and is a member of its Construction Arbitrators Master Panel.

In the past Dr. Galloway has been an Arbitrator on numerous construction cases, Member of Dispute Review Boards, Expert Witness in arbitrations and court presentations, Facilitator for partnering workshops, Instructor in several forums such as seminars, course instructor for private and public entities, a past guest Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Bologna, Italy, and is currently a visiting Professor at Kochi University of Technology in Kochi, Japan and Harbin University of Technology in Harbin, China.

Dr. Galloway is an internationally recognized leader in civil engineering and construction arena. In November of 2003, Dr. Galloway was inducted as the first woman President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and recently was appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board. Dr. Galloway also serves as the Chief Executive of Nielsen-Wurster Asia-Pacific, a Nielsen-Wurster subsidiary corporation located in Melbourne, Australia. She also serves as a Director for another Nielsen-Wurster subsidiary, Pegasus Global Holdings.

Dr. Galloway has extensive international experience having traveled to more than 90 countries and having worked on numerous domestic and international engagements.

Before joining Nielsen Wurster, Dr. Galloway was employed by CH2M Hill. Her responsibilities at CH2M Hill included preparation of project management training course, project controls including estimating and critical path scheduling and tunnel inspection, being the first woman tunnel inspector in Wisconsin. She was assigned as the Master Program Scheduler for the $1.6 billion Milwaukee Water Pollution Abatement Program (MWPAP). Her responsibilities included coordination of all project schedules, involvement with cost engineering functions, preparation of all schedule progress reports for public and client presentations and monitoring compliance with court orders imposed on the Program. Other activities at the MWPAP included authoring a scheduling manual, preparation of bid documents, on site tunnel inspection and coordination of a project manager's training series.