Andrew Wyllie (engineer)

Wyllie grew up in Scotland, being educated at Dunfermline High School and the University of Strathclyde,^[1] graduating in 1984 with a BSc in civil engineering.^[2]

Wyllie began his construction career as a graduate engineer at Taylor Woodrow in 1984, working in Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the Falkland Islands,^[2] and gained an MBA from the London Business School in 1993. After a three-year spell in business development at Taylor Woodrow, he became operations director of the firm's Africa division in 1996. In 1999, he was appointed a director of Taylor Woodrow Construction, of which he became managing director, aged 38, in July 2001.^[3] After four years in that role, he was appointed chief executive of the Costain Group in 2005,^[4] taking office in early 2006.

He helped stabilise the then financially struggling business, which finished 2006 by issuing profits warnings and cancelling dividends.^[5] It finished 2006 with a pre-tax loss of £61.7m, by which time Wyllie was refocussing Costain on larger clients and pushing through a rights issue in 2007.^[6] In March 2019, Costain announced Wyllie would be stepping down as CEO on 7 May 2019,^[7] to be succeeded by Alex Vaughan.^[8]

In December 2017 it was confirmed Wyllie would succeed Robert Mair as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers,^[9] and in November 2018, he became the ICE's 154th president.^[10]

A fellow of the ICE, Wyllie is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (elected 2009),^[11] the Institute of Directors and the British-American Project. He is a member of the Infrastructure Board of the Confederation of British Industry and a companion of the Chartered Management Institute.^[12]

From April 2009 to March 2017 Wyllie was a non-executive director of Scottish Water, and, since September 2017^[2] has been a non-executive director of Yorkshire Water.^[13]

Wyllie was appointed a CBE for services to construction and engineering in the 2015 New Year Honours.^[1]