Construction Expert Jeffery Whitfield Joins Hill International as a Director of Claims Management in Dubai

Hill International, Inc., the global leader in managing construction risk, announce that Jeffery Whitfield has joined Hill International (Middle East) Claims Management Group as a Director with international responsibility for all expert witness services.

Mr Whitfield was based in the United Kingdom office before moving to Dubai. Jeffery is a testifying quantum and project management Expert Witness who is widely experienced in major international disputes on a large variety of projects including airports, power plants, retail developments, hospitals, motorways, industrial facilities, rail infrastructure projects, offshore platforms, high speed railways and office buildings often carrying responsibility for large budgets. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Member of the Academy of Experts and a trained Mediator.

Jeff has testified in a number of major and long running cases in the UK and overseas. With his planning and quantity surveying training and qualifications, and with the benefit of his law degree, he assists clients and their legal advisers to resolve disputes around the world.

Jeff, who has authored two books, began his expert witness work in the early 1990’s and since then has been instructed on a number of major international arbitrations involving airports in the Middle East and Far East, power plants in Europe and the Middle East, high speed railways in Taiwan and the world’s largest racecourse development.

Hill International, with 3,200 employees in 110 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management and construction claims and consulting services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 8th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.