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STEPHEN D. BECHTEL JR.

Chairman Emeritus

Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., 79, is Chairman Emeritus and a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. He is also Chairman Emeritus and a director of The Fremont Group, separate affiliated companies that manage and operate in marketable securities, natural resources, and other selected investments. Mr. Bechtel’s business headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

First employed by one of the Bechtel engineering-construction companies in 1941, Mr. Bechtel held a wide variety of jobs and responsibilities, both in the field and in the company’s San Francisco headquarters, before being elected President of the parent company in 1960. In 1965, his father retired as Chairman, and Mr. Bechtel assumed that title in 1973. Mr. Bechtel stepped down from line management and became Chairman Emeritus in June 1990. His son, Riley, succeeded him as Chief Executive Officer of Bechtel Group, Inc. at that time.

Mr. Bechtel served as the third-generation head of the worldwide engineering and construction business that began in 1898 as a small Western railroad construction firm. Today the firm provides a broad range of technical and management services to clients in many industries around the globe.

He is a former Chairman of The Business Council and a former Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, where he served two two-year terms. He is a life-term Counselor of The Conference Board, Inc., having served two terms as Chairman.

Mr. Bechtel is a Life Member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology; a Consulting Member and former Chairman of Caltech’s Building and Grounds Committee; a former Chairman of Caltech’s Visiting Committee–Engineering & Applied Science; a former Member of the Advisory Council to the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, having been a charter member when the Council was formed in 1959; a Member of the Advisory Council of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University; a Member of The President’s Council, Purdue University; and an Honorary Trustee of the California Academy of Sciences.

Mr. Bechtel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering degree from Purdue University and an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the University of Colorado. He is a 1964 recipient of Purdue’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, the 1974 Ernest C. Arbuckle Award as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and the University of Colorado’s Engineer of Distinction Award in 2000.

Mr. Bechtel is a Registered Civil Engineer in California, the District of Columbia, and eight other states. He is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS); a Member of the American Society of Engineering Education; a Member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers; an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Institution of Chemical Engineers; an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Institution of Civil Engineers; a Foreign Member of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering; a Member of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society; and the 1990 national honor member of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society. Mr. Bechtel is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor and a Director and Life Member of the American Society of the French Legion of Honor. In 1994, he received the ASFLH Medal for Distinguished Achievement.

Mr. Bechtel has served as a Director on the boards of Crocker Anglo National Bank, General Motors Corporation, Industrial Indemnity, International Business Machines Corporation, Tenneco, Inc., and Remington Arms Co., Inc.

In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Mr. Bechtel to the President’s Committee on Urban Housing. In 1970, he accepted an invitation from President Richard Nixon to serve as a Member of the newly formed National Industrial Pollution Control Council.

In 1971, President Nixon appointed him a Member of the National Commission on Productivity, and in 1973 named him one of the 10 members of the Labor-Management Committee established to advise the Cost of Living Council on wage standards, as well as a Member of the National Commission for Industrial Peace. In September 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him to the 17-member President’s Labor-Management Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the World Energy Conference in Detroit in September 1974.

Engineering News-Record selected Mr. Bechtel as “Construction’s Man of the Year” for 1974, and in 1977 he received the Moles’ Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Construction,” the construction industry’s highest award.

In 1979, the ASCE awarded him the John L. Parcel-Leif/J. Sverdrup Civil Engineering Management Award for “his skill, enterprise and foresight in managing one of the world’s largest civil engineering projects: the Jubail Industrial Complex in Saudi Arabia.” In 1981, Mr. Bechtel received the 1980 Herbert Hoover Medal, one of the highest honors given annually by the engineering profession. In 1982, he received the Chairman’s Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies.

Mr. Bechtel was honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers with its 1985 President’s Award “in recognition of 45 years of outstanding service to his local, national and global communities, applying engineering technology and management skills to the betterment of mankind.”

A commission of seven national engineering societies awarded him the 1985 Washington Award for “his skillful, foresighted and efficient leadership in construction engineering worldwide, and for his dedication to the engineering profession and to education.”

He received the American Jewish Committee’s Institute of Human Relations 1987 National Award. In 1991, President Bush awarded Mr. Bechtel the National Medal of Technology, the highest American honor bestowed for technical achievement, in recognition of his outstanding leadership in the engineering profession and for developing and applying advanced management techniques to world-class industrial projects. The Beavers, an association of contractors and suppliers involved in dam building and heavy engineering projects, honored Mr. Bechtel with the 1992 Golden Beaver Award for Management.

In 1997, Mr. Bechtel received the Beta Theta Pi fraternity’s Oxford Cup for distinguished service and accomplishment in his field, and in 1998 he received the American Association of Engineering Societies’ 1997 National Engineering Award. The National Academy of Engineering bestowed upon him its Founders Award in 1999. The American Society of Civil Engineers presented him with their inaugural OPAL Award for Lifetime Achievement in Construction in 2000. In 2003, Mr. Bechtel received the American Association of Engineering Societies’ Kenneth Andrew Roe Award.

In 2004, Mr. Bechtel accepted an invitation from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to serve on its Board of Overseers. The US Energy Association presented him with the 2005 US Energy Award. In 2005, Mr. Bechtel received the Iwo Jima Award from the Marines’ Military Academy in recognition of Bechtel’s contributions in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Bechtel, which celebrated its centennial in 1998, serves a wide variety of industries, including power, petroleum and chemicals, surface transportation, aviation services, buildings, water supply and treatment, infrastructure development, pipelines, mining and metals, microelectronics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, automotive, pulp and paper, advanced technology, environmental remediation, and telecommunications.

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