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Occupation
  
Civil engineer


Name
  
Alan Cockshaw

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Born
  
14 July 1937 (
1937-07-14
)
Manchester

Known for
  
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Organization
  
Leonard Fairclough & Son, Amec Foster Wheeler

Sir Alan Cockshaw FREng (born 14 July 1937) is a civil engineer. Born in Manchester, he became the chief executive of Fairclough Civil Engineering in 1978 and, when this merged with the William Press Group to form AMEC in 1982, he became the chief executive (1984–88) and then chairman (1988-97). He was knighted in 1992. He became a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1986 and was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1997-98.

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