Alan Boden graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1978 and is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has over 40 years of experience from a number of tunnelling and heavy civil engineering projects based in Hong Kong, China, UK, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Canada. His main experience has been in the construction, design and project management of high speed / mass transit railways, highways, drainage tunnels and associated heavy civil engineering infrastructure projects, 15 years with UK contractors and 25 years with contractor / supervision / client organisations on international project assignments.  As an Executive Director with AECOM (Hong Kong), he was responsible for leading design teams on a number of projects there and further afield. He was the Tunnel Advisor on the Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link, Northern Connection Subsea Tunnel Project and Project Manager on the Riyadh Metro Project. Returning to the UK, and as Director for Alan Boden Tunnelling Ltd, he was the Tunnel Delivery Lead for Lower Thames Crossing and is now Tunnel Advisor for Jacobs.