ICE Connects: Women in Fellowship Spotlight on Resilience

Antony Oliver

Antony is a renowned infrastructure journalist, editorial consultant and commentator. Antony is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Built Environment Trust and director at the Building Centre Group.  

Antony has been communicating in the civil engineering and infrastructure world for some 20 years, serving as editor of New Civil Engineer magazine for 14 years. Antony is an infrastructure enthusiast, evidenced through his work as on The Infrastructure Podcast, a weekly series of conversations with key players across the sector. 

Janet Young

Dr Janet Young joined the ICE as director general and secretary in January 2023.

She has extensive experience in the built environment sector, having most recently worked in the Cabinet Office where she was head of the Government Property Profession, leading the profession and driving the agenda for the property and estates function.

She has also been global director of estates for the British Council, director of estates for the Ministry of Justice, and head of asset management in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

She is a Major Projects Leadership Academy graduate of the Saïd Business School, and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Royal Engineers, and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Her PhD, Towards Zero Energy Buildings, looked at the challenges and solutions for low carbon and energy developments.

Roni Savage

Rachel Skinner CBE

Juliet Mian

Juliet is the director of infrastructure resilience and global resilience skills leader at Arup, working with a broad community of inspiring and dedicated resilience practitioners.

Juliet helps organisations understand their risks due to climate change and other shocks and stresses and achieve greater resilience of the infrastructure systems for which they are responsible.

She promotes a systemic approach to resilience, considering robustness, redundancy, adaptive capacity and the ability to transform where necessary.

Juliet enjoys the multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral nature of her work, and seeks to deliver solutions through collaboration and integration across the system and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.