ICE South West Regional Committee Annual General Meeting

Séan P F Harris

After a distinguished career in the British Army, which concluded as Commander British Gurkhas, Séan Harris joined ICE as director of membership in 2015, bringing leadership, planning, and financial experience to the role. Séan is guided by a core principle of growing a diverse, broad, and professionally qualified membership.

By helping individuals to realise their potential and supporting employers in professionally developing their workforce, he believes that the Institution of Civil Engineers can play a powerful role in meeting the existential challenges of climate change and assuring society that its engineers are credible, current and competent. In 2023, he was also appointed deputy director general and secretary of the institution.

Christopher Ackland

Miranda Housden

As the South West director at the ICE, Miranda is responsible for raising the profile of civil engineering in the region, maintaining professional standards, encouraging a diverse future workforce and providing leadership and direction to the ICE South West team and more than 6,000 ICE members.

Prior to moving to the South West, she was the ICE director for London and South East England, having previously been the London director for the Royal Institute of British Architects. Miranda has produced a number of films including Engineering the London Underground, Engineering Plymouth and Engineering Happiness for which she was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers Garth Watson medal.

Alongside her ICE role, Miranda is chief executive officer for the South West Infrastructure Partnership.