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Turner & Townsend strengthens its Asia leadership team
19 Jan 26
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Turner & Townsend, the global professional services company, has appointed two senior leaders to support its growth and expansion in Asia. Jonathan Baker joins as Managing Director, Energy and Infrastructure and Alex Katsanos as Head of Advisory across the region.
Joining from Mott Macdonald, Jonathan Baker brings over 30 years of global leadership experience to Turner & Townsend and will be based in Singapore. Career to date, he has advised clients across multiple sectors including advanced manufacturing, defence, industrial, nuclear, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, ports, power, transportation and water.
At Turner & Townsend, he will drive complex major programme capture and delivery for public and private clients across Asia. Jonathan holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Association for Cost Engineering and Project Management (FACostE).
Seated in Hong Kong, Alex has over 25 years of consulting experience advising both public and private sector companies across operations and infrastructure spanning East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. He brings experience in policy, transformation, operational improvement, capital planning, smart cities, digital strategy and procurement excellence.
Alex will focus on accelerating the growth of Turner & Townsend’s advisory business in Asia by strengthening its support to governments, investors and asset owners across the region. Alex holds a PhD and is a Policy Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
“Jonathan and Alex’s appointments demonstrate our commitment to strengthen our leadership team in Asia and build on our track record as the ‘go-to’ major programmes partner for infrastructure and energy across the region.
Their combined international leadership experience, in-depth industry knowledge and technical expertise makes them ideally placed to help advise our clients achieve value across their major programmes and projects in complex and highly regulated environments.”
Brian Shuptrine
Regional Managing Director, Asia
Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global programme management company with over 23,000 people in 64 countries.
Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, Turner & Townsend specialises in major programmes, project, cost and commercial management, project controls and performance, net zero and digital solutions, in markets around the world.
Turner & Townsend is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services, with its partners holding a significant non-controlling interest.
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