Paul Westbury
Paul Westbury CBE CEng FREng FICE FIStructE is the Chief Executive Officer of engineering company Buro Happold. Westbury graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with a first class degree in engineering science. He then joined BuroHappold Engineering in 1991. He is a chartered structural engineer. He developed a specialism in sports and entertainment buildings and has led the teams responsible for engineering on a number of award-winning projects. Following a number of senior positions within the company, Westbury took the role of chief executive officer at BuroHappold Engineering during March 2011. Westbury is a Fellow of the Institution  of Civil Engineers, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Structural Engineers, and the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture & Commerce. He has written and presented a number of technical papers and has lectured at Cambridge, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2008 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. He was named in "The Times" "top 100 scientists" list for 2010. In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers, their most prestigious award. Westbury is a judge for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a £1 M biennial prize aimed at promoting the essential contribution of the profession around the globe. Westbury was made a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours.