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He joined Expedition Engineering in 2002 where he has been the Project Director for many projects including the multi award winning Infinity Bridge and the Olympic 2012 Velodrome. Ed was instrumental in the growth and development of Expedition from a “back bedroom start-up” to Building Magazine’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2012.

In 2009 Ed co-founded the Useful Simple Trust and gifted his shareholding in Expedition to the Trust for the benefit of the employees.

Ed has been actively involved in design education since 1999. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Innovation at Strathclyde University.

Ed lectures widely and has also made some 35 Television programs on civil engineering.

Andy joined Tideway in 2015 from Crossrail. where he undertook several roles: Chief Tunnel Engineer during detailed design; procurement lead for the tunnelling contracts; and project manager during construction of all tunnelling work in the Crossrail West Area.

Andy was responsible for the design of the London Underground Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade, the Docklands Light Railway Extensions to London City Airport and Woolwich, and the Dublin Luas tram system. He was part of the design and construction team for Jubilee Line Extension and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Andy has worked in the UK, Ireland, Egypt, Malaysia and Canada.

Andy is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Association for Project Management. He is an ICE Professional Review and a member of the ICE Fellowship Panel.

He spent 20 years in civil engineering project design and management predominantly in the water industry, becoming a public sector technical director before going on to lead multi-disciplinary organisations in the commercial and charitable sectors, with particular interest in strategic management and governance.

He is an independent consultant.

John’s posts include Chief Executive & Secretary of one of the Church of England’s largest dioceses, a major charitable organisation occupying a central role in the life of many diverse communities.

He was Director General of the International Cotton Association, the regulatory and arbitral authority governing the US$60 billion annual value global traded commodity, where market volatility, environmental and resource sustainability, subsidies and tariff barriers were recurring sources of agroeconomic and political concern.

Member of the Commercial Courts Users Committee (RCJ).

John is a former ICE Director International, representing ICE’s interests overseas, supporting local associations and co-operating with universities, UK and foreign government departments and agencies, as necessary. He is Past-President and currently Honorary Secretary of Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France (British section) and past Chair of the national public sector European Affairs Committee.

Between 1990 and 1999, he was Director of Technical Services and Environmental Services in SW England.

John has an MBA (Bristol) 1993, postgraduate Diploma in Law (London) 2002, is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Elected to ICE Council in 2012, Trustee Board in 2019, he is Chair of the Ethics Committee, member of the Policy & External Affairs Committee and the Standards Panel and a lead professional Reviewer in the UK, India and Hong Kong.

Awarded an honorary Jubilee Medal of Moscow State University (2001) for ‘Services to Education and Science’.

Gary is a Chartered Member of both the ICE and the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES), an Accredited NEC Project Manager, CEEQUAL Assessor and an APM Certified Project Manager.

His Turner & Townsend roles include: - EA Regional Framework Manager; Sustainability Champion, Utilities and Transport sector business generation and he is currently seconded into the Environment Agency working in a Client role for their Programme and Contract Management Service. As the EA’s Client Project Manager he is overseeing a portfolio of flood management enhancement works along the Sowy River / King’s Sedgemoor Drain on behalf of the Somerset Rivers Authority.

Gary first supported the ICE as a volunteer in 1998. His current ICE roles includes Regional Council Member representing the South West, Chairing the ICE’s CPD Panel, serving on the Awards Committee and he is a Professional Reviewer for the ICE and ICES. Gary also acts as an SCE for Turner & Townsend.

Before joining the University of Oxford in 2011 to become Director of the University’s Environmental Change Institute, Prof Hall held academic positions in civil engineering departments in Newcastle University and the University of Bristol.

Prof Hall is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change. Professor Hall is a member of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and is Expert Advisor to the National Infrastructure Commission. He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.

He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment. Prof Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI).

Amongst various distinctions, Prof Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He was a Contributing Author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

On completing an MBA in 1986, he became involved with the planning, feasibility, and financial and economic analysis of projects, principally in the water and environmental sectors. Over the next decade he worked on numerous projects funded by the international finance institutions as well as by UK government bodies.

Keith has built career long experience in the planning, study and design of hydraulic structures, hydropower, urban drainage, sewerage, water supply and river engineering schemes. He has worked in numerous countries as well as in the UK.

He ran the firm’s Water and Environment business from 1997 to 2002, before becoming the Group Managing Director in 2004, directing the firm’s expansion in North America and Australasia. Keith became Chair of the Group’s Executive Board in 2011, responsible to shareholders for the performance of the company and its strategic direction – a role he continued until mid-2019.

Keith was on the board of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering from 2011 to 2015, and its Chair in 2013; he was a member of the CBI’s Construction Council from 2013 to 2019; and has been a member of the Cranfield School of Management Advisory Board for the last eight years.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has now stepped down from the Board of Mott MacDonald but continues to act as an adviser to the company and as a Pension Scheme trustee.

Dr Sabih has extensive experience in the design and construction of civil and heavy civil infrastructure projects, such as Heathrow Terminal 5 in London, Khalifa Port and Khalifa Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi, Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, A13 DBFO Project in London, Metro operation, London Underground (Tube Lines, London), program management for the development of multi-mode transit systems (e.g. Abu Dhabi’s US$ 32-billion Integrated Public Transport Program), as the Civil Infrastructure Design Manager, Metro Design, Doha Metro and most recently, Head of Engineering with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies MENA Region.

She has recently been tasked with evolving and communicating a sustainable business strategy for the £750 M business which operates across the UK & Ireland. She works closely with the GRAHAM Group Board to ensure the vision and strategic approach aligns with the aspirations of the shareholders and reflects the collaborative approach of the business, which aims to deliver lasting impact for a diverse portfolio of customers, their stakeholders and the communities in which they work.

Emer is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Chartered Environmentalist, a Chartered Member of the Institute of Water and a Fellow of Engineers’ Ireland. She has a long association with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). She was Assistant Regional Director of ICE Northern Ireland 2008 - 2010. She was elected to ICE Council and Executive Board in London between 2012 - 2018. In November 2018 she was appointed Trustee and one of the Vice Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers with responsibility for UK Regions.

She is keen to see the industry become more diverse and inclusive, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because there is a strong business imperative to accelerate this transformation.

In June 2015 Emer was awarded the OBE for services to civil engineering and further education in Northern Ireland. She continues to be passionate about an industry and profession that exists to serve the fundamental needs of society.

Richard began his career as a civil servant at the UK Department for Transport where he held positions in the road, rail and aviation directorates. Between 1996 and 1998 he was Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport and the Deputy Prime Minister. He subsequently moved to the Infrastructure Advisory team at Citigroup before joining KPMG, where he led the UK Infrastructure, Building and Construction sector until 2018.

Richard has an extensive network of contacts across the infrastructure, transport, utility, and construction markets and the related political, financial and legal communities, in the UK and internationally. He works with national and local infrastructure and transport authorities, private infrastructure owners and promoters of infrastructure schemes. He has advised on the governance and financing of some of the worlds’ most complex civil engineering projects.

Richard is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and became a Vice-President of the Institution in November 2019. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Infrastructure. He is a member of the Infrastructure Board of the Confederation of British Industry.

He chairs the Advisory Council of The Infrastructure Forum, which is an independent think-tank which brings together organisations with involvement in UK infrastructure from public, private and regulatory perspectives. He is a prolific writer on infrastructure and transport, and is quoted regularly in the trade and national press.

She represents Arcadis at the London Climate Change Partnership and is the immediate Past Chair of the Thames Es-tuary Partnership, a charity working towards sustainable management of the Thames Estuary. She is also an External Examiner in the Civil Engineering and Built Environment department, Leeds Beckett University.

Anusha was previously the Founder & CEO of Plan for Earth, consultancy offering advisory services on Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience, Sustainability and Inclusive Design. A chartered engineer and a Fellow of the ICE, Anusha has specialisation in Water & Environmental Engineering with over 20 years’ experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes both in the UK and internationally.

She has worked with the government, NGO’s, consult-ants (Jacobs, CH2M and Black & Veatch), contractors, regulator and utility companies, and has led various multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural projects on Water, Environment, Flood Risk Management, Mining and Rail.

Anusha was the Co-Chair of ICE London and South-East Diversity Task Force and a member of the ICE Fairness, Inclu-sion and Respect Panel. She was the youngest and first female Chair of the ICE - London Region in 2010, General Coun-cil Member and Trustee of the ICE for two consecutive terms, Non-Exec Director, Thomas Telford Board, Member, ICE Executive Board, Member-ICE Research & Development Panel and Member- ICE Qualifications Panel.

Providing expert advice to public and private sector, including central Government (Cabinet Office, BEIS and Defra), Scottish and Welsh Governments, as well as local authorities. Currently adviser to critical infrastructure portfolios totalling in excess of £15.7bn, including 11 energy from waste projects, major road and rail schemes, and separate regeneration programmes for two towns and a district hospital.

Mentoring 3 engineers and regular speaker at Women in Leadership, Construction and other fora to promote engineering and career progression. Member of the Great Western Railway Advisory Board, SW Infrastructure Panel and Governor (UK) to Association of Real Property and Infrastructure. Previously chaired the Local Transport Board, BBC Audience Council (representing England) and ex interim CEO of Heart of the South West LEP. Lectures for Bournemouth, Plymouth and Leeds University and expert witness to several public inquiries on the impact of critical infrastructure on the tourism economy.

Managing Director of Coast Communications, a strategic technical communications agency based in Cornwall, London and Cardiff, with a roster of national and international clients. In her (limited) spare time, Liz enjoys walking in the Black Mountains with her dog, paddleboarding on the coast and photography. She is learning Welsh, with nominal success.