PhD, MCIPS, MBA, FCCM
Dr. Varghese Koshy Panicker
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Panicker brings over 30 years of senior contracts and procurement leadership across the GCC, India, and beyond. His career spans major capital programmes including Dubailand, Aspire Zone, and Qatar Energy upstream projects. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and a recognised authority on contract risk management, he has led multi-billion-dollar portfolios and built the contracts functions that some of the region's largest contractors now rely on. He reviews and approves every insight CALIM publishes.
Areas of Expertise
Contract risk management
Procurement strategy
Capital programme governance
FIDIC and NEC contract forms
Insights reviewed by Varghese
Every CALIM insight is reviewed and approved by the senior leadership team before publication. A selection of recently reviewed articles:
Collapsed As-Built Analysis: When But-For Persuades and When It Fails
Collapsed as-built analysis removes one party's delay events from the as-built programme to show when the project would ...
Pacta Sunt Servanda and Hardship: When a Fixed Price Can Be Reopened
Pacta sunt servanda means a fixed price binds even when costs soar. The narrow routes that can still reopen it: FIDIC pr...
Time Impact Analysis vs Windows Analysis: Prospective or Retrospective?
Time impact analysis forecasts what a delay event will do to completion. Windows analysis measures the delay that actual...
Quantum Meruit in Construction: Getting Paid for Work Done Without a Signed Contract
Quantum meruit means 'as much as he has deserved'. Here is when a reasonable sum is payable for construction work done w...
Windows Analysis and Time Slice: How the Contemporaneous Delay Method Works
Windows analysis divides a project into periods and measures the critical delay in each from contemporaneous programme u...
Contra Proferentem: Why Ambiguous Clauses Are Read Against the Drafter
Contra proferentem reads a genuinely ambiguous clause against the party that drafted it. Between commercial parties it i...
DAAB Meaning: How FIDIC's Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Board Works
DAAB stands for Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Board, the standing dispute board in FIDIC's 2017 contracts. How it diffe...
What Is an LSTK Contract? Lump Sum Turnkey Meaning and Where the Risk Sits
LSTK means Lump Sum Turnkey: one contractor, one fixed price, and a facility handed over ready to run. How it compares w...
Managing EOT Claims on GCC Projects: From Delay Event to Determination
An extension of time claim is won by process, not paperwork. The full lifecycle of EOT claims on GCC projects: identifyi...
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