Meet your senior mentors

Both senior mentors serve as RICS APC panel assessors and counsellors, so the coaching reflects how candidates are actually assessed.

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Portrait of Riffath Hussain

Senior Mentor

Riffath Hussain

Chartered Quantity Surveyor | Certified Quantity Surveyor | Chartered Construction Manager

Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Chartered Construction Manager with over 13 years of international experience across the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and North America. As an experienced RICS APC Panel Member and AIQS APC Panel Chair & Counsellor, he brings first-hand assessment and mentoring experience. His expertise covers cost and commercial management, contract administration and project delivery across diverse sectors, with extensive experience on complex, large-scale and giga projects.

Assessor roles

APC Panel Assessor and Counsellor – RICS (UK)

APC Panel Chair and Counsellor – AIQS (AU)

Professional memberships

  • MRICS
  • MAIQS
  • CQS
  • MCIOB
  • ACIArb
  • MQSi

Qualifications

  • Master of Business AdministrationAnglia Ruskin University (UK)Merit
  • MSc Project ManagementUniversity of Bedfordshire (UK)Merit
  • BSc (Hons) Commercial Management (Quantity Surveying)London South Bank University (UK)First Class
  • BEng (Hons) Civil & Construction EngineeringLondon South Bank University (UK)First Class

Sectors

  • Commercial
  • Mixed-use
  • Residential
  • Education
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Leisure
  • Recreation
  • Healthcare
  • Aged Care
  • Social Housing
  • Infrastructure
  • Rail
  • Ports
  • Defence
  • Nuclear
  • Dispute Resolution

Regional experience

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • Qatar
  • Maldives
  • Sri Lanka
Portrait of Ashker Rizvi

Senior Mentor

Ashker Rizvi

Chartered Quantity Surveyor | Certified Quantity Surveyor

Chartered Quantity Surveyor, RICS Assessor and industry lecturer with over 12 years of international experience across the Middle East and South Asia, combining technical expertise, commercial leadership and professional assessment experience with a passion for developing the next generation of quantity surveyors.

Assessor role

APC Panel Assessor and Counsellor – RICS (UK)

Professional memberships

  • MRICS
  • MAIQS
  • CQS
  • ACIArb
  • MQSi

Qualifications

  • MSc Quantity Surveying and Commercial ManagementLiverpool John Moores University (UK)Reading
  • BSc (Hons) Quantity SurveyingSheffield Hallam University (UK)Second Upper Class

Sectors

  • Commercial
  • Mixed-use
  • Residential
  • Education
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Leisure
  • Recreation
  • Healthcare
  • Aged Care
  • Social Housing
  • Infrastructure
  • Rail
  • Ports
  • Defence
  • Dispute Resolution

Regional experience

  • United Arab Emirates
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Qatar
  • Maldives
  • Sri Lanka

Assessed by a panel, never by your own mentor

Both senior mentors sit on APC panels. Where that would create a conflict, it is declared and managed under the relevant body’s rules.

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Where to go from here

The programme

Seven services across every mandatory, core and optional competency.

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Competency coverage

Every competency we cover, with topics, levels and lecture hours.

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