Ir Chaido Doulala-Rigby (Yuli)
Yuli is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Fellow of the Permanent Way Institution (FPWI), the first non-military Fellow of the Institution of Royal Engineers (FInstRE), a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (MHKIE(G)), (Geotechnical Discipline), and a member of the Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining. She has 25+ years experience in a variety of geotechnical and civil engineering projects around the world. She obtained her first degree in Civil Infrastructure Engineering in Greece and her Master of Science (MSc) in Rock Mechanics and Foundation Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. Her work experience includes working as a Tunnelling Engineer for Balfour Beatty/AMEC JV at the Jubilee Line Extension Tunnelling project in London (1995-1996), as a Geotechnical Engineer for Mouchel Asia Limited in Hong Kong (1996-2005) and as the Chief Civil Engineer for Tensar International (2005-present). Yuli is based in Tensars UK HQ and for > 10 years she held the overall responsibility of the Tensar Eastern Hemisphere Design Team with offices in Germany, Holland, France, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia and China and representatives in Africa, Australia and New Zealand. While she is still involved in delivering training, project risk management and high-level technical advice to Tensars global design team, her focus is now largely diverted towards Business Development and educating the construction industry globally on the benefits of geosynthetics in Construction.
Yuli is the current (2021-2022) Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for the Northwest region of the UK, a past Chair (2016-2018) of the UK Committee of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), an elected member of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Executive Committee (2020-2023), a Liveryman and a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and a passionate, registered STEM Ambassador.
