Haitham Khaireldin

Personal Bio

Job Title: Senior Director at FTI Consulting

Areas of Expertise:

Haitham Khaireldin is a qualified engineer with more than 17 years of experience in construction, project planning, consultancy, and dispute resolution for oil & gas, power & utilities, infrastructure, and buildings projects in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the UK.

Haitham is a testifying accredited delay expert witness with civil engineering, quantity surveying, and legal backgrounds. He has worked on many major projects around the world, including renewable power & utilities project in the UK; oil and gas projects (including LNG) in Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait, KSA, Qatar, and UAE; airports and roads and highways projects in UAE; buildings projects (including defence, government, public sector, health, and education) in UAE; and industrial projects in UAE and Egypt.

He has experience as a party-appointed expert in arbitration and as an expert in litigation and has given written and oral evidence to the arbitral tribunal and cross-examined by counsel.

Haitham holds a BEng in Civil Engineering from Cairo University, an MSc in Quantity Surveying from Heriot-Watt University, an LLM degree in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University, and holds the Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence (LETAPAEWE).

Haitham is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), a Member of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (MCInstCES), a Member of the Society of Construction Law, and a Member of the Guild of Project Controls.

Specialities: project planning & controls, delay analysis, disruption analysis, forensic planning, expert witness, arbitration, litigation