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ICE Presidential Address 2024

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Date
05 November 2024
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Overview

Introducing the 160th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Professor Jim Hall.

The presidential address is one of the highlights of the institution’s calendar. At his inaugural event, Prof Hall explores how we can develop an infrastructure strategy for a sustainable future.

The infrastructure that civil engineers provide is central to sustainable development. Yet around the world governments continually struggle to provide much-needed infrastructure services.

During his presidential year, Prof Hall will explore how we can ensure that we’re getting the outcomes we need from the infrastructure systems we have, and the new ones we build.

Watch the event recording above to find out more about Prof Hall's plans as ICE president.

Speaker

Prof Jim Hall

Prof Jim Hall

University of Oxford

professor of climate and environmental risks

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Prof Jim Hall

Prof Jim Hall is a trustee of the ICE and until recently, held the carbon and climate portfolio.

He’s a professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford.

His research specialises on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.

Prof Hall is a member of the UK prime minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission.

He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.

He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment.

Prof Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI).

Among various distinctions, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018.

He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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