Routes to Fellowship with Kate Kenny

Keith Jones FICE

Keith is a Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of ICE. He has been in post since May 2008, prior to this he was Operational Manager Highways at the Vale of Glamorgan Council, responsible for all highway maintenance operations including management of the DSO contracting unit as well as Environmental Manager for the Council.

Keith was in Local Government from 1967 to 2008 holding a range of posts involving engineering, highways, infrastructure and drainage. Former Chairman of the County Surveyors Society Wales Engineering Committee and member of the UK Roads Board, advising Government on Highways issues.

He is a member of the Cross Party Groups on STEMM and Construction and Industrial Liaison Boards at Cardiff University and Swansea University.

Emma Antrobus

Emma has been the North West Director of ICE since July 2018, overseeing the activity and budgeting for more than 6,500 members in the region. ICE has more than 95,000 members across the world in all sectors of engineering including transport, housing, development, energy and water.

Having done a business with manufacturing degree, Emma has spent most of her career working with and supporting businesses in all sectors towards improvement and change, with a focus on the engagement with and understanding of policy focusing on infrastructure projects including rebuilding Manchester city centre following the 1996 bomb, Northern Hub and HS2.

Kate Kenny

In her capacity as general manager of Jacobs’ people and places solutions in Europe, Kate Kenny leads more than 8,000 people delivering critical projects, including in the transport sector. An ICE Fellow, she brings together knowledge from across the consultancy to challenge its problem-solving methods, innovate and shape the next generation of solutions for its clients.

With more than 20 years’ experience in engineering consultancy, Kate has worked on business cases for major UK infrastructure programmes including HS2, Crossrail, the Silvertown road tunnel in London and the airport expansions at Heathrow and Stansted.