Robert Jönsson has been elected president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the first non-North American to head the Bethesda, Md.-based group, which has 65 international chapters and 5,000 members. Jönsson is chairman of the Dept. of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at Lund University in Sweden. He has been on its faculty since 1981 and department head since 1985.
KBR, Houston, has hired Mark S. Williams as group president of its government and defense, infrastructure and minerals, and power and industrial business units. He was group vice president in northern Europe for Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., managing director of its Dutch and German units serving the oil, gas and chemicals industries, and senior vice president in its aerospace and defense sector. The appointment completes a year-long reorganization of KBR’s non-hydrocarbon units, the company says.