Thierry Linares
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, France

Thierry Linares is a Senior Managing Director in the Construction practice of FTI Consulting, heading the Paris team. He joined FTI Consulting in 2016, having spent most of his professional career on major oil and gas and infrastructure projects.

Thierry has over 20 years of experience managing the various components of project controls, both on contractor and client side and has been extensively involved in the set-up, management and development of activities of project control: budget and cost control, planning, contracts and subcontracts administration, risk management, analysis of key performance indicators.

As such, Thierry has developed a comprehensive knowledge of issues relating to cost, scheduling, procurement, risk and contract management within the construction project industry. In his time as Client and Contractor, Thierry has focused on estimation and managing complex procurement bids, developing and managing claims as well as dispute resolution tools and strategies.

He worked on greenfield onshore oil & gas, offshore modular process, mining and port projects, civil infrastructures, and power generation plants from engineering to commissioning, and has a large experience of technical and industrial problematics.

Thierry has over three dozen testifying experiences in ICC arbitrations as delay and quantum expert and has been selected by the Who’s Who Legal as being among the world’s leading Consulting Experts regularly since 2018.
He acts regularly as Dispute Board Member and Adjudicator, appears on the FIDIC President list, and also advises clients very regularly to improve on their complex project strategies, control and dispute avoidance mechanisms.

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