ICE President

The role of the ICE president

Each year in November, a new ICE president begins their 12-month role.

Their role is to represent the civil engineering profession and the institution at the highest levels of government, business, and society.

They are considered an authoritative voice of the profession.

The president chairs the ICE Trustee Board and the Council, and has certain duties under the by-laws.

• Further detail on the president's responsibilities and duties are set out in the president's terms of reference.
• The president's calendar, including past and upcoming events, can be accessed online by ICE members.

Current ICE president

Professor Jim Hall is the ICE president for the 2024-25 term.

He is the institution's 160^th president.

Prof Hall is professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford.

He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.

Prof Hall is a member of the UK prime minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of 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).

Among 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.

At his inaugural Presidential Address, Prof Hall explored how we can develop an infrastructure strategy for a sustainable future. This event is one of the highlights of the institutions calendar. Watch the recording below.

ICE past presidents

Before the standard length of term was established, Thomas Telford, the institution's first president, served the longest term of 14 years.

List of ICE past presidents