Routes to Fellowship

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.

Beth Willoughby CEng FICE ChPP MAPM

Beth is a Programme Director at East West Rail, working to develop a new railway to connect communities between Oxford and Cambridge.  Over the last 20 years, she has held leadership positions on many large-scale, complex infrastructure projects within the UK’s rail, highways, aviation, nuclear and water sectors.  She has a track record of delivering successful projects in challenging environments with multiple high-profile stakeholders.

Beth has experience across the full lifecycle of infrastructure projects including project inception and business case development, design and construction phases and project close out.  She is recognised as being a leader that develops and cultivates high-performing collaborative teams, where people enjoy working and are willing to go the extra mile to succeed. When not at work, Beth can be found in the dojo of her martial arts school - a black belt in both kickboxing and kung fu, she loves competing and teaching the next generation of martial artists.