Caroline Field
PA Consulting
partner, national resilience
Caroline Field
Caroline is a leader in the resilience consulting industry and a pioneer and role model in civil engineering. She has nearly 30 years of experience founded in structural engineering, specialising in structural dynamics. This includes expertise in counter terrorism and blast mitigation, earthquake engineering and more recently whole-system resilience. Caroline has broad experience of the European and US markets and holds dual British/American citizenship. She has always been a pioneer of new approaches and cutting-edge solutions, spearheading performance-based design techniques and bridging the space between research and practice.
Caroline has been a pioneer for women in engineering, which has not always been a comfortable position to be in. She is passionate about encouraging and support other females in the profession. In 2020, she was a recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineers (RAE) visiting professorship programme. She is a visiting professor of structural and infrastructural resilience at Loughborough University. As part of this, Caroline participated in the Civil Engineering Industry Advisory Board, give at least give lectures a year and supports student projects and EDI activities.
