Engr. Vanessa Malaluan is the Managing Director of Pinnaclecore Academy with over 19 years’ experience in the construction and oil & gas industries, specialising in planning and scheduling, project controls, claims and defence, and alternative dispute resolution.
Engr. Malaluan has extensive experience in the preparation and assessment of time extension and prolongation claims, disruption claims, and any other costs claims. She has acted as a witness of fact and has assisted a testifying delay expert in several arbitration cases in Qatar. Moreover, she has also assisted a quantum expert for the independent assessment of the contractor’s claim which was subsequently submitted to the KSA Board of Grievance.
She acquired BSc Degree in Civil Engineering and has gained over 14 years working in the Middle East region. Engr. Malaluan is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb), a Fellow Member of the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators (PIArb), and an Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). She is both PMP and PMI-RMP certified, and the first Filipino to acquire the status of an RICS Registered Expert Witness in the MENA region. In 2022, she was elected as one of the Board Members of Ciarb Qatar Branch, wherein she has actively contributed to organising arbitration conferences and other CPD events in Doha. She holds several qualifications, such as Master of Laws in Construction Law and Arbitration, Master of Business Administration, and Postgraduate Diploma in Law, from reputable UK universities.
Engr. Malaluan also received an MBA Strategy Award for Sustainability from RGU Aberdeen Business School and at the same time, she was recognised as one of the ‘Modern Heroes of the Philippines’ (2024) by the Gawad Bayaning Pilipino and ‘Top Engineers in the Middle East’ (2023) by The Filipino Times.