Experts & Advisors
Pasha Ameli
Managing Director
2000 K Street NW, 12th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
+1.202.419.1420 Main
+1.949.610.5600 Mobile
Pasha Ameli is a Managing Director at Ankura, based in Washington, DC. He is a registered professional civil engineer with 11 years of experience in construction cost advisory, quantification of damages, calculation of lost productivity, construction cost estimation, and allocation of the responsibility of damages.
Experience
Pasha’s project experience includes solar farms, rare earth mineral extraction plants, hazardous material recycling facilities, transit centers, wastewater treatment plants, sports arenas, performing arts centers, hospitality, class A office buildings, multi-family residential complexes, and custom single-family homes.
Pasha has authored numerous expert reports that led to successful settlements. He has testified in trials and arbitration hearings.
His graduate research study was supported by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, and was focused on the study and numerical modeling of the alteration of fractured rocks due to coupled chemical and mechanical processes.
Pasha has been a member of the board of directors of the Society of Construction Law, North America since 2020 and currently serves as young professionals’ liaison officer of the board.
- Education
- PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- BS, Civil and Structural Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Certifications
- Professional Engineer (CA)
- Xactimate
- Affiliations
- Society of Construction Law North America, Board Member, Young Professionals Liaison Officer
- American Bar Association, Forum on Construction Law
- Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering, International
- Languages
- Fluent Persian
- Fluent Turkish