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ICE
Nominations deadline for 11 ICE Council places is 29 March
ICE Council is seeking new members for the session which begins in November.
There are 11 vacancies:
- Five general members (comprising Chartered, Incorporated and Technician Members), who are elected by the professionally qualified members worldwide and do not represent any particular constituency
- Five regional members – one member to represent each of the following regions: East Midlands, West Midlands, Northern Ireland, North West and South West. Regional candidates may be Chartered, Incorporated or Technician Members and are elected by professionally qualified members in the relevant regions
- One graduate member, elected by ICE Graduate members.
Council members meet four times a year at the ICE headquarters in Westminster
Members can nominate themselves or a colleague. Each nomination requires at least five sponsors. Successful members will serve for up to three years from 5 November.
Nominations must be submitted to the Institution’s governance office by 29 March. The election will run from 3 June to 9 July.
The 35 elected members of ICE Council have an essential role in directing ICE activity. They debate issues of relevance to civil engineering, the Institution and society to understand and recognise the implications of the changing nature of the sector and to drive the agenda of the ICE’s activity.
Council also has an important role in representing the views of the membership and offering advice to the Trustee Board on how the Institution can best deliver value to society and its members.
The Council meets four times a year, virtually and in person at One Great George Street in London.
- Find out more about Council nominations and the full requirements for candidates at https://bit.ly/3Zb1CJX or email governance@ice.org.uk
ICE
Jim Hall to be next ICE President
Hall succeeds Anusha Shah in November. He is an academic widely recognised for his research into water resource risk analysis.
ICE senior vice president Jim Hall has been officially elected to be the next ICE president by ICE Council.
He succeeds Anusha Shah in November 2024.
Hall is a climate and environmental risks specialist
The ICE nomination committee put Hall forward as a candidate for the 2024/25 presidency in January 2023. This was confirmed by Council in April 2023. Council has now formally elected him to serve for the session.
Hall is an ICE Trustee and is professor of climate and environmental risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for 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 & Technology and is a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission.
He was a member of the UK’s independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019. He also led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment.
Hall founded and chairs the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure.
Among various distinctions, he has been awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.