• Joined the Ministry of Transport as a civil engineer since 1982.
• Supervisor Engineer for a road construction and maintenance projects
• Participating in the development of Highway Maintenance Management System for the ministry
• Chief of structure evaluation section
• Director of the structures maintenance department
• Director of the maintenance evaluation and programming department
• Director of Quality Control department within the General Directorate of Material and Research Department
• General Director of Material and Research Department since 2004.

Andrew Braham earned his Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2002. Next, he worked at Koch Materials Company for two and a half years, developing pavement maintenance products, before going to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for his doctorate. His focus at UIUC was in cracking of asphalt concrete. After graduating in 2008, Andrew accepted a post-doc position at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, where he is continuing his research of pavement performance of asphalt concrete.

John has over 30 years of specialization within airfield pavement engineering. He is currently the Head of Airfield pavements within the Professional and Technical Services Group of Defense Estate at the Ministry of Defense in the UK. In this role, John is responsible for setting design, construction and maintenance standards for works on MOD airfields, also providing technical support to project and maintenance teams whilst managing a maintenance, inspection programme for determination of maintenance needs on MOD airfields.

John has been Chairman of the European CENTC 227 Airfields Working Group since 2000; member of the NATO Airfield Pavements Workgroup since 1998 and a Member of the Pavement sub-panel group of the ICAO Aerodrome Operations and Services Working Group.

Cyril FABRE is working with AIRBUS since 1997. He started with Airbus on A340-300 and A340-500/-600 programme, especially dedicated on the Winglet design (A340-300, aero-elasticity) and landing gear configuration (A340-600). In 1999 C. FABRE is integrated on the A380 programme (Formerly called Large Aircraft division) in the Infrastructure and Environment Department. He is appointed Head of A380 Pavement experimental programme (A380 P.E.P) and more generally responsible of the A380 pavement compatibility.

In March 2006, he his appointed Pavement Manager for all Airbus products, including new programmes (A350, A330-200F, A400M…).

Since May 2007, he is appointed Head of pavement in the Engineering Aircraft Architecture & integration team. In addition he is the Airport compatibility focal point for all Airbus military programmes

Dr. Hayhoe is a General Engineer at the Airport Technology R&D Branch, the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, New Jersey. He is Manager of the National Airport Pavement Test Facility and also works on airport pavement design and evaluation projects. Dr. Hayhoe has been with the FAA for twelve years. He previously worked at Galaxy Scientific Corporation and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute on projects in pavement design and evaluation and vehicle dynamics. He is a member of ASTM Committees E17 and F09. He earned his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, Bedford, England.

Dr. Kanitpong has completed her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering specializing in Highway Materials and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) in 2004. Her areas of expertise are the pavement analysis and design, highway materials and construction, asphalt rheology and failure testing, and asphalt concrete mixture design and analysis. She has been trained in the asphalt area for many years and has experience in asphalt binder testing, mixture design, and field measurements. Prior to joining AIT, she served the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Research Associate for many years. Currently, she has been involved in pavement construction projects and many pavement materials research projects in Thailand

HANS CHRISTIAN KORSGAARD started his engineering career being involved with the development of the FWD at the Danish Road Institute back in the seventies.

He gained his PhD. from the Technical University of Denmark for his work on “Use of Fly Ash stabilized materials as base causes”.

HANS CHRISTIAN KORSGAARD has been working with Grontmij | Carl Bro since 1998 and is today Technical Manager in the Pavement Consulting Division working with the newest developments of the FWD, HWD and the Primo 100.

As a corporate senior manager, Girish Reesaul is the Airport Lead Engineer & Technical Leader for Building & Civil Engineering at Gatwick Airport, which is the second largest airport in the UK. He was formerly the Technical Leader for Airside Pavements & Infrastructure for BAA covering seven airports that included Heathrow airport and Gatwick airport.

Prior to joining BAA, Girish worked for nearly a decade for a major global Design and Project Management Consultancy both in the UK and overseas.

A chartered engineer and environmentalist, he is the holder of numerous prestigious awards that include the Shell Centenary Scholarship Award. His airport experience spans key areas like master planning, pavement design, virtual simulation, asset management and the maintenance of a broad range of airport infrastructure. He has extensive knowledge of many worldwide standards and lectures at the BAA University to an international audience on various aspects of airport operations and safety.

He is currently a Professor of Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Transportation Research in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is the President of the Transportation Science Society of Malaysia and a Board Member of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS). He is also the country representative of WCTR Society for Malaysia. He has been involved in various capacities in government agencies and the private sector pertaining to roads and highways. His current research interests include pavement materials, road safety and sustainable transport.

Dr. Waheed Uddin is a professor of civil engineering and Director of Center for Advanced Infrastructure Technology (CAIT) at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Uddin received a PhD in transportation engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1984. Dr. Uddin has contributed to airport and highway projects in the United States and many other countries worldwide. He also served as a pavement expert for the United Nations in the United Arab Emirates during 1989-91.

Dr. Uddin has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Mississippi in infrastructure condition evaluation and management, sustainable built-environment, air quality management, advanced computer modeling and simulation visualization, transportation safety, air quality, advanced computer simulations and finite element analysis of pavement systems. He is an international expert in pavement nondestructive evaluation technologies, material characterization, maintenance management, pavement performance modeling, life-cycle economic analysis, geospatial analysis and GIS-based decision support systems using and airborne and spaceborne remote sensing technologies, and technology transfer.

Dr. Uddin received project awards funded by the National Academy of Sciences for FAA and US AID, US DOT, Federal Highway Administration, Mississippi DOT, and NASA / Mississippi Space Commerce Initiative. In recognition of successes as these and being an effective mentor to students, Dr. Uddin has been awarded the 2001 School of Engineering Faculty Service award and the 2007 inaugural Epps/Dart award of the Deep South Section of the Institute of Engineers (ITE) for excellence in teaching.

Dr. Uddin has published over 200 papers, discussions, and technical reports including 3 books and 98 peer reviewed papers in refereed journal and conference books. He is a coauthor of "Infrastructure Management," published by McGraw-Hill in August 1997, Japanese edition in 2001, and Chinese edition in 2005. He also contributed a chapter on pavement management systems in the CRC Highway Engineering Handbook published in 2006. He has been the Chief Editor of IJP – International Journal of Pavements since 2002 and serves on the editorial boards of two other international refereed journals. He has made over 140 presentations including 45 invited lectures and keynote speeches at national and international meetings in 27 countries worldwide.

Kars Drenth
Head of Pavement Engineering
DYNATEST

Patrick Lerat
Pavement Sub-Group Rapportor
ICAO

Cecile Caron
Director General
FRENCH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY