Vice President Australasia - Graham Scholey

Graham Scholey

Graham is a practising geotechnical engineer who has worked in industry for over 35 years, primarily in the infrastructure sector.  He is currently a Technical Director with WSP Golder in Sydney, having joined Golder in Sydney in 1999. He has worked throughout the world, on projects in the UK, US, Mexico, the Middle East, Africa, Thailand, India, Ecuador and Australia. His particular interest is in helping clients to solve technical problems, with a focus on managing geological and geotechnical risk in road and rail projects and mentoring younger engineers as they find their career pathway.

Graham graduated with BSc (Hons) from Portsmouth Polytechnics well-known Engineering Geology and Geotechnics course in 1986.  After working as an engineering geologist in the UK Graham went to the US in 1991 as a Fulbright Scholar, studying for a Masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering at Purdue University.  He graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993 after transferring with supervising professor, Dr David Frost. During this time Graham worked with Fugro in Houston, TX, who he re-joined after graduating. Graham remained with Fugro until 1999, working as a geotechnical engineer in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry, spending time in Houston, Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands.

After emigrating to Australia in 1999 Graham became a member of the Australian Geomechanics Society.  He was the National Chair from 2010 2011. From 2012 to 2017 he led two successive bids to bring the International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering to Sydney, succeeding on the second attempt. This led to Graham becoming the Co-Chair of the Local Organising Committee for the highly successful 20th ICSMGE in Sydney in May 2022.

Graham lives on the outskirts of beautiful Sydney with wife, Anna. He has two grown children.  Grahams passion is mountain biking, and there is rarely a weekend when he is not on the trail, travelling far and wide to find the best trails.