Victory at Future Leaders

Future Leader – Alistair Hitchcock

Organised by industry titles New Civil Engineer (NCE), Construction News, Architects’ Journal and QS Week, the Construction’s Future Leaders contest is intended to offer young professionals in the built environment the opportunity to demonstrate their skills-set and solve challenges that
business leaders encounter.

Mott MacDonald’s Alistair Hitchcock outshone the competition to win the engineering category of the 2008 Construction’s Future Leaders Awards on 28 March. Alistair received the award at a presentation held at the Tate Modern Gallery, London, attended by many leading industry figures.

The contest saw a field of over 400 entrants from the engineering, contracting, architecture and quantity surveying professions whittled down to ten in each category. Alistair was one of five
Mott MacDonald staff to power through two knock-out rounds to make the shortlist of ten finalists in the engineering category.

Chair of judges and managing editor of NCE, Jackie Whitelaw, said, “Future Leaders is all about identifying individuals with the brilliance and charisma to become tomorrow’s chairmen and CEOs, and Alistair is the real deal. The finalists for the award glittered, but Alistair dazzled.”

For our engineers to make up 50% of the engineering shortlist is a remarkable feat in itself. The other Mott MacDonald finalists were Hazel Greenin, Daniel Reader, Kashyap Shukla and Paul Hilton, who all drew praise from the judges.

The judging panel commented, “Alistair has everything you’d look for in a leader – charisma, charm and clear ability. He has a certainty about him that excites confidence and the power to be inspirational.”