Personal bio

Baoqiang Zheng is a professional consultant with over 25 years’ experience in contract, commercial claims and claims avoidance gained on major engineering and construction schemes around the world.

Baoqiang specialises in project planning and forensic delay analysis and has been directly involved in a variety of major international projects in the process of preparation and defence of claims, disputes and arbitration on behalf of contractors, subcontractors, clients and legal counsel, and has been appointed as delay expert in arbitrations and has been cross-examined. Baoqiang was recommended Expert Witness by Who’s Who Legal in various categories including Consulting, Construction and Arbitration, and has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Construction since 2023.

Working on major projects, Baoqiang has also developed extensive experience in contract administration, contractual and commercial management, due-diligence, procurement, contract negotiations, disruption analysis, as well as estimating and cost management.

Baoqiang has worked on many major projects around the world, including power stations (including solar and wind parks) in Italy, Ukraine, Mexico, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Niger and China; oil and gas projects (including LNG) in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Australia; chemical complex projects in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and China; rail projects (including heavy rail, light rail and rapid transit) in Denmark, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Ethiopia; defence and reclamation projects in the UK and the UAE; an airport project in Oman; roads and highways projects in the UK and Kazakhstan; a shipyard project in India, a major port complex project in Saudi Arabia; and commercial and residential buildings in the UK, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and China.