Professor Bruce Melville – BE, PhD, FRSNZ, FIPENZ
Professor Bruce Melville was Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Auckland. His academic career spans 29 years as well as six years previously with civil engineering consultants in NZ and overseas in most aspects of water resources engineering.

He is Associate-Editor of the (ASCE) Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, on local and international research committees, a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and received the 2002 ASCE Hydraulic Structures Medal and the 2007 R.J Scott Medal from RSNZ.

Director - Jim Bentley – Bsc, PhD
Dr Bentley is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Research. Jim is also Chief Executive of Synergine Group Limited and was previously Chief Executive of Metrowater.

Jim has extensive international experience with a successful track record in infrastructure and utility leadership in operational, commercial and strategic management. He has led the development and management of infrastructure as a client, a contractor, a consultant and an operator, from public and private sectors and has particular experience in the use of public private partnerships and alliancing.

Jim is currently leading an alliance of NZTA , Fletcher, Beca, Higgins and Kapiti Coast District Council on the MacKays to Peka Peka (M2PP) Expressway project, under the Government’s ‘Roads of National Significance’ programme.