| Ralph
R. Peterson serves as Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd., a global project
delivery company, and as a Director of StanCorp Financial
Group.
Mr. Peterson is a civil engineer, with
a Bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and
a Master’s degree from Stanford. He currently serves
on the Board of Directors of the Construction Industry Round
Table and the Colorado Energy Science Center. He is Co-Chair
of the CEO Coalition to Advance Sustainable Technology, co-founder
and Chair of the Colorado Environmental Business Alliance,
and chairs the Advisory Board of the Colorado Association
of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists.
He participated as a private sector representative
at China’s Agenda 21 Conference, and at a similar national
conference for the Philippine Republic. He chaired the Environmental
Sectoral workshops at the 1995 Western Hemispheric Trade Forum,
and served as delegate to the 1996 and 1999 APEC Summit, the
1997 “Rio + 5 “ Summit and the 2000 World Water
Forum. He serves as CH2M HILL’s representative to the
World Business Council for Sustainable Development and as
representative to the Business Environment Leadership Council
of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Mr. Peterson received the Governor of Colorado’s
1995 award for Outstanding International Trade Development
in Colorado, and was named Chief Executive of the Year in
1996 by the Denver Business Journal. He received the Greater
Los Angeles African-American Chamber of Commerce Award for
Development of African-American Enterprise in 1996. Mr. Peterson
was named to the Oregon State University Academy of Distinguished
Engineers in 1998, and on behalf of CH2M HILL, received Colorado
State University’s George L. Koonsman Corporate Service
Award that same year. He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering
degree from Colorado School of Mines in 2000. In 2001, he
was awarded the International Bridge Builders Award from the
University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies
and the ASCE President’s Award. |
