Committee Composition

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Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To see any of the committee charters, click on committee names in the chart below.

Chairperson Chairperson Committee Member Member Financial Expert Financial Expert
Lead Director Lead Director
 Audit CommitteeCompensation and Organization CommitteeNominating, Governance and Risk CommitteePlanning, Finance and Investment Committee
Francis S. Y.  Bong 
Francis S. Y.  Bong
Director


Francis S. Y. Bong
Director

Francis S. Y. Bong was named to our Board of Directors after our merger with Maunsell in May 2000. Prior to our merger with Maunsell, Mr. Bong was Chairman and Chief Executive of Maunsell Consultants Asia Holding Ltd. from 1997 to 2000 and served as Managing Director of the same firm from 1987 to 1996. Mr. Bong started with Maunsell in 1975 and served as Chairman for our operations in Asia from 2000 to 2010. Mr. Bong also serves on the Board of... 
    Committee Member
James H. Fordyce 
James H. Fordyce
Director


James H. Fordyce
Director

James H. Fordyce was named to our Board of Directors in February 2006. Mr. Fordyce is a Managing Director with J.H. Whitney Capital Partners, LLC, a private investment firm. He has been with J.H. Whitney since July 1996. Mr. Fordyce began his career at Chemical Bank in 1981, where he spent eight years primarily in their leveraged buyout group before then joining Heller Financial, Inc. as a Senior Vice President where he spent his time investing bo... 
  Chairperson   Committee Member
S. Malcolm Gillis 
S. Malcolm Gillis
Director


S. Malcolm Gillis
Director

S. Malcolm Gillis was named to our Board of Directors in January 1998. From July 2004 to present, Dr. Gillis has been a University Professor at Rice University. Dr. Gillis served as President of Rice University from July 1993 to June 2004. Before assuming the presidency of Rice, Dr. Gillis was a professor at Duke University from 1984 to 1993, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 1993. He was at Harvard Universit... 
Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member  
Linda Griego 
Linda Griego
Director


Linda Griego
Director

Linda Griego was named to our Board of Directors in May 2005. Ms. Griego has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Griego Enterprises, Inc., a business management company, since 1985. She was the founder and Managing General Partner of Engine Co. No. 28, a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles, from 1988 until 2010. She also served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank and was Deputy... 
Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member  
David W. Joos 
David W. Joos
Director


David W. Joos was named to our Board of Directors in February 2012. Mr. Joos currently serves as chairman of the Board of CMS Energy Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed public electric and natural gas utility. Previously, he served from 2004 to 2010 as president and chief executive officer of CMS Energy and as chief executive officer of its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy Company. Joos brings to the Board 27 years of experience, including his extensive knowledge and practical e... 
Committee Member   Committee Member Committee Member
Robert  J. Lowe 
Robert  J. Lowe
Director


Robert J. Lowe was named to our Board of Directors in February 1993. Mr. Lowe is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lowe Enterprises, Inc. and its affiliated companies. He was the principal founding shareholder in 1972 of the corporation that became Lowe Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Lowe also serves on the Board of Claremont McKenna College and on the boards of various charitable organizations and government commissions and committees. ... 
   Committee Member Chairperson
Richard G. Newman 
Richard G. Newman
Director, Chairman Emeritus


Richard G. Newman
Director, Chairman Emeritus

Richard G. Newman has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 1990. He was our Chairman from 1992 to 2011. Mr. Newman was our President until 1993, and then Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from May 1993 to October 2000 and Chairman and CEO from 2000 to 2005. He served as a director of Ashland Technology Corporation from February 1989 until it became AECOM in April 1990. Mr. Newman ... 
    Committee Member
William G. Ouchi   Lead Director
William G. Ouchi
Director


William G. Ouchi
Director

William G. Ouchi joined our Board of Directors in May 2003. Dr. Ouchi is the Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Distinguished Professor in Corporate Renewal in the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been on the faculty of UCLA since 1979. Dr. Ouchi is a director of Sempra Energy, FirstFed Financial Corp. and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Dr. Ouchi has also been Vice Dean for Executive Education at UCLA a... 
  Committee Member Chairperson  
Rob  J.  Routs Financial Expert
Rob  J.  Routs
Director


Rob J. Routs
Director

Rob J. Routs was named to our Board of Directors during December 2010. From 1971 until his retirement in 2008, Routs served in several leadership roles at Royal Dutch Shell plc. Routs’ final leadership role with Royal Dutch Shell was Executive Director, Downstream operations, where he was based in Europe from 2004 to 2008, and responsible for running a global business with US$250 billion in sales, US$80 billion in market cap, US$60 billion of assets... 
Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member  
William  P. Rutledge Financial Expert
William  P. Rutledge
Director


William P. Rutledge
Director

William P. Rutledge was named to our Board of Directors in November 1998. Mr. Rutledge was President and Chief Executive Officer of Allegheny Teledyne, Inc. from August 1996 until his retirement in 1997. Mr. Rutledge serves as Chief Executive Officer of Aquanano, LLC. Mr. Rutledge also serves on the Board of Directors of FirstFed Financial Corp., Communications & Power Industries, Sempra Energy Corporation and the board of trustees of Lafayett... 
Chairperson Committee Member   
Daniel R. Tishman 
Daniel R. Tishman
Director


Daniel R. Tishman
Director

Daniel R. Tishman was named to our Board of Directors in July 2010. He is also an AECOM Vice Chairman as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tishman Construction Corp., one of the largest and most experienced builders in the world, which joined AECOM in July of 2010. Tishman Construction Corp. was founded in 1898 and has remained at the forefront of the industry under Mr. Tishman’s leadership. Mr. Tishman is Vice Chairman and a memb... 

    Committee Member