New ICE Wales Cymru Chairman Receives Fellowship
New ICE Wales Cymru Chairman Geoff Ogden has been awarded Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
Respected internationally, ICE Fellowship is the highest grade of ICE membership and a benchmark for those practising at the top level within the civil engineering profession. Only those with a position of responsibility in the planning, design, construction, maintenance or management of important engineering work can be awarded this level of membership.
Geoff was presented with his Fellowship certificate by ICE President, Richard Coackley, at an admission ceremony held at the ICE headquarters in Westminster, London.
Geoff currently works as Business Director for Atkins, in the Highways and Transportation sector. He says he became an engineer because he wanted to do something that wasn’t deskbound and that built on his aptitude in maths and physics.
He said. “As a teenager my gran’s next door neighbour kindly gave me a few copies of New Civil Engineer magazine and following discussions with him I continued with my science based A-levels, then went on to study Civil Engineering at the University of Nottingham. It’s an enormously rewarding career and I have had the opportunity to work with many fantastic people.”
His career highlight so far is being invited to become Chairman of ICE Wales Cymru in 2012-13.
“I am enormously proud of this and I’m really looking forward to my year, helping to promote engineering to government, the public, students and school children,” he said.
ICE Wales Cymru Director, Keith Jones commented: “Gaining ICE Fellowship is an exceptional achievement and I warmly congratulate Geoff on joining an elite group of civil engineers. This highly respected accolade recognises a significant contribution to the civil engineering profession and seniority in the industry. I am particularly delighted that Geoff has achieved ICE Fellowship as I have been working with him over the past few years on our ICE Wales Cymru Committee. I am looking forward to working closely with Geoff as ICE Wales Cymru’s Chairman.”