The trustees are supported by a council, who are directly elected by ICE members. As the voice of the membership, council has an essential role in representing the views of the membership to the Trustee Board.
How does our council work?
The ICE Council supports the trustees in ensuring the ICE is considered a global centre of excellence championing the role civil engineering plays at the heart of society.
The council is the voice of the membership and plays a pivotal role in providing member insight to consultations with feedback being used to inform strategy and plans.
The council drives the agenda to debate issues of relevance to civil and infrastructure engineering, the Institution and society, to understand and recognise the implications of the changing nature of civil and infrastructure engineering.
More details on the duties, responsibilities and composition of the council can be found in the Council Terms of Reference.
Council meetings
The minutes for past meetings can be accessed here.
If you're a member of the ICE, log into the site using the prompt at the top of this page and you'll be able to access and download any documents.
Meet our council
The ICE Council is made up of 38 members from different countries and grades of membership.
Every year, certain positions on our council become available, so members can stand for these positions. They receive votes from other ICE members.
Council members serve for three years and are directly elected by the membership.
The following may attend council meetings as observers if they are not otherwise council members:
- Chair, Early Careers Network (ECNet);
- Chair, Thomas Telford Ltd;
- Any professionally qualified ICE member, under prior arrangement with the governance office and subject to available space.
Our president promotes the institution and the profession in the UK and around the world. The person in this post changes each year.
The president’s calendar, including past and forthcoming events, can be accessed online by ICE members.
Further detail on the president’s responsibilities and duties are set out in the President’s terms of reference.
The president chairs the council and the following are council members. Members serve until the November of the year shown.
Julie Wood CEng FICE
Julie Wood took up the position of President of the ICE in November 2026. A civil and structural engineer, she has over 25 years' experience designing and leading major, complex projects across transport, commercial, healthcare, science and energy. Having started her career as an apprentice technician, Julie is now one of 13 Global Fellows at Mott MacDonald.
At Arup, where she became an Executive Director, Julie led the structural engineering of the Foster + Partners-designed McLaren Technology Centre. She went on to direct the Francis Crick Institute and lead the design team for HS2 Euston Station. On the multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade West of Leeds, she was Deputy Programme Director for Projects and Engineering, and Project Director for a £400m project within the programme, delivering engineered solutions while rail services kept running.
Her career has encompassed engineering, project and programme leadership. She has a particular focus on bringing together technical, commercial and delivery perspectives to tackle complex infrastructure challenges.
Julie joined Mott MacDonald in January 2024 and led technical and design delivery on the New Hospital Programme. She brought standardised design and modern methods of construction to a national programme. In 2026, she was appointed to lead the Infrastructure Systems Review for the Infrastructure Client Group, the National Infrastructure Systems Transformation Authority (NISTA) and the Green Construction Board. She is accountable for developing, driving and delivering its insights and recommendations. Her focus is on bringing outcomes to the fore, using systems thinking to improve how infrastructure is considered, planned, designed and delivered.
Julie's own route into the profession shapes her commitment to social mobility. She wants people to be able to enter, progress and succeed in engineering throughout their careers, whatever their starting point.
Julie has served on ICE Council and the Trustee Board since 2020. She has chaired the Membership Committee and the Finance, Risk and Assurance Committee, and co-chaired the Low Carbon Energy Community Advisory Board. Her board experience also includes the University of Portsmouth, Benenden Hospital Trust and the University of Greenwich, and she was a member of the Mayor of London's Infrastructure Advisory Panel.
Julie was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2020 and was recognised as one of the UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2021.
Outside engineering, Julie is a landscape and seascape photographer, specialising in long-exposure photography.
David Norman Porter BEng (Hons) MSc CEng FICE
Stuart Allen BSc (Hons) IEng MICE CMgr CMI
Ceren Alper BSc MSc CEng MICE
Fiona Barbour CEng FICE
Noemi Barrington CEng MICE
John Bridgeman BEng MSc PhD FICE FCIWEM FIMA CEng CSci
Laura Brown-Glaholm CEng MICE
Chris Campbell CEng FICE
Chris Caves MEng CEng FICE
Ambrose Siu Yau Cheong BBS BSc(Eng) MSc DIC CEng FICE FHKIE MCIWEM C.WEM
David Clegg BSc (Hons) MBA IEng MICE MCIHT CMgr FCMI
David Coles CEng CIoD FICE FIoD
Victoria Davies GMICE
Carlos De Freitas MSc CEng FICE MIStructE
Michael Dobie BSc MSc DIC CEng FICE FCIHT
Rhiannon Evans BA (Hons) BEng IEng MICE
Enrique Huertas Garcia CEng MICE
Tina Gunnarsson MEng CEng MICE
Tim Harman MEng CEng FICE
Susan Hawkes EngTech FICE FWES
Pippa Higgins CEng FICE P.Eng
Ir Dr. Anne Frances Kerr OBE FICE
Dr Sabih Khisaf MSc PhD Eur Ing CEng FICE
Anisa Koci CEng MICE
Francis Kwateng EngTech FICE
Squadron Leader David Littlemore CEng FICE
Ruth Marsden MEng GMICE
Simon Morris BSc (HONS) IEng MICE
Gráinne Murray BEng MSc CEng MICE
Antonios Palatianos BEng (Hons) MSc CEng MICE ChPP MAPM CMgr MCMI
Smita Sawdadkar CEng FICE
Nigel Thompson MEng (Hons) CEng MICE MCIHT
Ellie Walton MEng GMICE
Simon Wanklyn CEng FICE
Mike Wellington BEng (Hons) MSc CEng CEnv FICE FCIWEM C.WEM IMaPS MAPMFICE
Robert White BEng(Hons) PGDipBA, CEng, CPEng (Aus) FICE, FEngNZ, FIEAust, CMInstD
ICE Council Elections 2027
Our members around the world elect the ICE's Council members. We hold elections every year when about one third of Council member seats are available. These places are usually for a three-year term, to replace members whose term of service has finished.
Election timetable
Council vacancies for 2027 will be posted in December 2026.
Further information
If you would like to find out more about Council elections, please contact the Governance Office on +44 (0)20 7665 2002/2077 or at [email protected]
Do you have any questions?
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Council summaries
Following each meeting of council, a brief note summarising what was discussed and any actions to be taken is produced and made available to members and the public.
