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ICE presidential reception 2025, Hong Kong

Event organised by ICE

Date
16 January 2025
Time
18:30 - 21:00 HKT (GMT+8)
Location
The Hong Kong Club
Garden Lounge, 1 Jackson Rd
Central,
Hong Kong

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Overview

ICE President, Professor Jim Hall, will be visiting Hong Kong from 15-17 January 2025. A presidential reception is scheduled for 16 January 2025, during which Prof Hall will meet with guests and members in Hong Kong. The event will also feature the presentation of membership certificate to our newly elected Fellows. Members of all grades are welcome to join the presidential reception and reunite with old friends from ICE.

Dress code: business attire (HK Club Policies)

Notes:

  • Registration will be confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis, with priority given to ICE members.
  • Only successful registrants will receive a confirmation e-mail.
  • The above is subject to change without prior notice.

Adverse weather arrangement:

The event may be cancelled or rescheduled in case of a Black Rainstorm Alert or a Typhoon Signal No. 8 or higher being issued by the Hong Kong Observatory within 2 hours before the event. It may also be cancelled for safety or other reasons.

Disclaimer:

The Institution of Civil Engineers (Hong Kong Association) shall not under any circumstances be liable or otherwise for death or any injury or for any damage to or loss or destruction of property or otherwise, in any such case arising from any accident or mishap, and whether during or after this event, in preparation for it, traveling to or from it or otherwise.

Speaker

Prof Jim Hall

Prof Jim Hall

Institution of Civil Engineers

President 2024-25

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Prof Jim Hall

The ICE’s 160th President, Jim Hall is professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis in water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and climate change adaptation.  

Hall is a member of the prime minister’s Council for Science and Technology and a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC). He also served on the adaptation committee of the independent Climate Change Committee from 2009 to 2019.  

Hall led the development of the national infrastructure systems model the NIC used in producing its first National Infrastructure Assessment. He invented the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure in 2017 and remains chair of its strategy board.  

Among his many accolades, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He also contributed to the Fourth Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. 

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