The trustees are supported by a council, who are directly elected by ICE members. As the pinnacle of the learning society, council drives the agenda by being the key decision-making body with respect to the ICE’s learned society activity.
How does our council work?
The ICE Council has an essential role in representing the views of the membership to the Trustee Board.
It 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 pinnacle of the learning society, and meets regularly to debate issues of relevance to civil engineering, the institution and society, to set the agenda for the institution’s learned society activity.
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.
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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.
David Norman Porter BEng (Hons) MSc CEng FICE
David Porter is a trustee of the ICE and took up the position of President in November 2025.
David is currently the director of engineering with the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), which is the roads authority for Northern Ireland.
In this position, David is the Chief Highway Engineer and the Head of the Civil Engineering Profession within the Northern Ireland Civil Service. He is responsible for the development of the department’s professional and technical staff, engineering policies and standards, health and safety, and leads on procurement and the internal consultancy. Previously, David was the Chief Executive of Rivers Agency, the flood defence and drainage authority for Northern Ireland, and also held the posts of Director of Development and Director of Operations with the agency.
David is a past chair of the Northern Ireland Region of ICE, has been on council three times, two terms as the Northern Ireland representative, and one as a general member. He has also served on numerous committees and panels, was a member of the Presidential Commission on the ICE Governance (the Orr Review), chaired the member-led review of NOMCO, the Audit Committee, and the Qualifications Panel. David has also been on the Committee of Management of the ICE Benevolent Fund.
Amongst various distinctions, David is a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland, was awarded the Poskitt Medal by the ICE Northern Ireland Region in 2017, and the Engineers Ireland President’s Award in 2018.
Professor Jim Hall FREng BEng MA PhD CEng FICE
Stuart Allen BSc (Hons) IEng MICE CMgr CMI
Fiona Barbour CEng FICE
Regional member
Noemi Barrington CEng MICE
John Bridgeman BEng MSc PhD FICE FCIWEM FIMA CEng CSci
Regional member
Chris Campbell CEng FICE
Regional member
Chris Caves MEng CEng FICE
Regional member
David Clegg BSc (Hons) MBA IEng MICE MCIHT CMgr FCMI
Regional member
Victoria Davies GMICE
Carlos De Freitas MSc CEng FICE MIStructE
Rhiannon Evans BA (Hons) BEng IEng MICE
Regional member
Enrique Huertas Garcia CEng MICE
International member
Serena Gough GMICE MEng
Tina Gunnarsson MEng CEng MICE
Tim Harman MEng CEng FICE
Susan Hawkes EngTech FICE FWES
Regional member
Ken Ho JP FICE FHKIE RPE (Geotechnical) RPE (Civil) ACGI BSc(Eng) DIC MSc CEng EurIng
Regional member
Ir Dr. Anne Frances Kerr OBE FICE
Dr Sabih Khisaf MSc PhD Eur Ing CEng FICE
Regional member
Gerald Knights MEng (Hons) MSc DIC CEng FICE
Anisa Koci CEng MICE
Francis Kwateng EngTech FICE
George Lance MEng (Hons) CEng NECReg MICE
Regional member
Julian Lineham PE SECB F.SEI F.ASCE CEng FICE
International member
Squadron Leader David Littlemore CEng FICE
Eur Ing Dr Phebe Mann MA(Cantab) MSc PhD LLB LLM CEng MICE FRICS MCIOB FCIArb FRSA FHEA
Deputy Chair of council
Ruth Marsden MEng GMICE
Gráinne Murray BEng MSc CEng MICE
Regional member
Richard Nunn BSc CEng MICE MCIWEM
Regional member
Antonios Palatianos BEng (Hons) MSc CEng MICE ChPP MAPM CMgr MCMI
Lucinda Smith BA MBA CEng MICE
Sally Walters MEng MPHil CEng FICE
Simon Wanklyn CEng FICE
Robert White BEng(Hons) PGDipBA, CEng, CPEng (Aus) FICE, FEngNZ, FIEAust, CMInstD
International member
Graham Yates BEng (Hons) CEng MICE
Regional member
ICE Council Elections 2026
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.
The 2026 election took place throughout June/July 2026 and the results of the elections were announced at ICE’s Annual General Meeting on 21 July 2026. Those elected take office from 3 November 2026 and will serve for three years.
The ICE membership elected thirteen council members to direct the lifelong learning and engineering knowledge of the institution:
Elected to ICE Council as general members
- David Coles
- Ceren Alper
Elected within their respective regions as regional members
- Simon James Morris (East of England)
- Nigel Thompson (London)
- Laura Brown-Glaholm (North East) (uncontested)
- Mike Wellington (Wales) (uncontested)
Elected within their respective regions as international members
- Pippa Higgins (Americas) (uncontested)
- Robert White (Australasia)
- Ambrose Siu Yau Cheong (Hong Kong and East Asia) (uncontested)
- Dr Sabih Gatea Khisaf (Middle East and Africa)
- Smita Sawdadkar (South Asia)
- Michael Dobie (Southeast Asia)
Elected as a Graduate Member
- Ellie Walton
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?
If you would like to find out more about our elections, please contact the Governance Office on:
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.
