Alastair MacDonald is the Vice President of Decommissioning and Waste Management for Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd. He is an experienced leader and manager with over 35 years of varied business experience in the nuclear and engineering services sector in the UK, Canada and the US. Since 1999, he has been directly responsible for the management of nuclear decommissioning projects. His experience is based on a solid engineering foundation supplemented by proven skills in a range of business topics to lead the oversight of a one billion Canadian dollars annual nuclear decommissioning program across multiple sites.
MacDonald has both public sector and commercial private sector experience in a UK Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 company. He has held various managerial positions at Cavendish Nuclear and the UK Atomic Energy Authority, where he participated in a secondment with CH2M on plateau remediation at the Hanford Site.
MacDonald holds a physics and electronic engineering degree from Glasgow University. He currently resides in Ontario, Canada. He will provide advice on contracting and management, large project planning, intergovernmental and stakeholder engagement, and risk assessment from an international environmental cleanup perspective.
MacDonald represents the views of international environmental cleanup communities.
