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Ivana Kocheva

Managing Director, Forensics

Ivana is an experienced forensic delay analyst and an RICS Registered Expert Witness. She has over 15 years of experience in the construction industry in the UAE and the Middle East, working with major Clients, Contractors, and Subcontractors on multi-billion complex construction projects in a variety of sectors such as airports, mixed-use developments, commercial, residential, hotels, utility services, military, oil & gas, and marine.

Ivana has an extensive experience in project planning and project controls, delay analysis, claims preparation, assessment, and rebuttal, specializing specifically in forensic delay analysis within the construction expert and dispute resolution industry.

Ivana has been appointed as a delay expert to provide an independent opinion on matters of programming and delay, and she has acted on multiple occasions as the lead assistant to delay experts in arbitration and adjudication proceedings under ICC, QICCA, ADCCAC, and DIAC rules.

Geographic Experience

Middle East
Afghanistan

Core Skills & Services

Forensic Delay Analysis
Claims Preparation, Assessment & Defence
Project Planning & Controls
Contractual Compliance
Project & Risk Management

Sector Experience

Mixed Use Developments
Major Airport Developments
Commercial Developments
Residential
Hotel
Utilities
Oil & Gas
Military
Marine

Education & Certification

MSc Construction Law and Practice
BSc in Business (Project Management)
PMI-SP (Project Management Scheduling Professional)
RICS Registered Expert Witness

Associations

Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Member of the Society of Construction Law
Member of the Project Management Institute