Three staff in the Middle East, two in the UK and one in China promoted

UK consultant EC Harris has promoted six of its staff to full partnership level.

Three of the promoted partners – Stewart Cash, Ben Khan and Derek Roy – are based in the Middle East.

A further two are based in the UK – head of education, Marcus Fagent, and Gareth Robbins.

Finally Weibin Xu, head of EC Harris’ Guangzhou office in China, has also been promoted.

EC Harris remains an LLP partnership under the ownership of Dutch engineer Arcadis – the 158-strong partnership retains 30% of the company’s profits, the rest goes to its Dutch parent company.

Philip Youell, EC Harris chief executive, said: “We are committed to recognising the success of our people, and our partnership model continues to provide opportunities for our highest performing individuals.

Our partnership structure recognises outstanding achievement and rewards the success of our colleagues across the globe.

“I am pleased to welcome these six outstanding members of the company into the partnership and look forward to the contribution that their knowledge, experience and expertise will continue to have in our future success.”