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Biography
Andrew William Wolstenholme OBE, FREng (born 5 March 1959) is an English civil engineer and current chief executive of Crossrail. He has been elected a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 2016, with a view to becoming the 155th President in 2019.
Early life
Andrew Wolstenholme was born in London, the son of an architect mother. He went to Sussex House School and then Malvern College.
He graduated from the University of Southampton in 1981 with a degree in civil engineering. He then joined the army, and served with the Royal Engineers.
Career
Arup
He joined Arup Group in 1987 as a bridge designer.
BAA
He joined BAA in 1997 as construction director of the Heathrow Express Rail Link. He became programme director of the £4.3bn Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) in 2002. Construction of T5, designed and engineered by Arup, began in July 2002.
While at BAA, Wolstenholme chaired a Constructing Excellence group which produced a report, Never Waste a Good Crisis, published in November 2009.
Crossrail
He became chief executive of Crossrail, Europe's largest civil engineering project, in August 2011.
Personal life
He was appointed an OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013.