William W. Brubaker Joins Hill International as Senior Vice President and North Africa...

William W. Brubaker Joins Hill International as Senior Vice President and North
Africa Regional Manager

MARLTON, N.J. and CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 12, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hill
International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk,
announced today that William W. Brubaker, P.E. has joined the firm as Senior
Vice President. He will be responsible for overseeing all of Hill's project
management operations in North Africa and will be based out of the company's
Cairo, Egypt office.

Brubaker has over 30 years experience in the construction industry managing
major capital improvement programs for large public agencies. Prior to joining
Hill, he was Director of Facilities Engineering and Operations for the
Smithsonian Institution where he managed 1,900 employees and was responsible for
650 buildings and structures with annual operating and capital budgets exceeding
$400 million. Prior to that, he was Director of Facilities Engineering for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration where he directed all NASA
facility activities including the oversight of 5,500 buildings worth $20
billion. Before that, he worked for 16 years in various positions with the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. Brubaker earned his B.S. in civil engineering from the
University of Virginia, his M.S. in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute
of Technology and his M.S. in business administration from Boston University. He
is a registered professional engineer in Florida, a member of the National
Academy of Construction, and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil
Engineers.

"Bill has built and managed very large and complex facility operations with
large capital improvement budgets," said Raouf S. Ghali, President of Hill's
Project Management Group (International). "He understands the owner's side of
the business and will be a tremendous resource for our clients in the region,"
Ghali added.

Hill International, with 2,300 employees in 80 offices worldwide, provides
program management, project management, construction management and construction
claims and consulting services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked
Hill as the 11th largest construction management firm in the United States. For
more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

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incur in implementing our acquisition strategy; the need to retain and recruit
key technical and management personnel; and unexpected adjustments and
cancellations related to our backlog. Additional factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements are set forth
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not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update any forward-looking
statement.

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