ICE Trustee Board

As a director and Fellow at Mott MacDonald, Julie spearheads complex, high-profile programmes, drawing on over 25 years of experience in the construction industry and more than 18 years in non-executive director roles across diverse sectors.

Julie is deeply committed to lifelong learning and advancing social mobility. Her leadership has shaped landmark projects, including the Glaxo Group Research Campus, McLaren HQ, The Francis Crick Institute, the Transpennine Upgrade Project, and most recently The New Hospital Programme. In these roles, she has led large, diverse multi-disciplinary teams, supported the development of emerging professionals, and consistently focused on fostering growth in others—helping to build a legacy of future leaders.

Julie is committed to sustainable futures, systems thinking, and advancing the delivery of major infrastructure to benefit society. An advocate for opportunity and inclusion, she began her career as an apprentice before earning a degree in Civil and Structural Engineering. In recognition of her broad contributions, Julie was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2020 and named a top woman in engineering in 2021.

She currently serves on the ICE Trustee Board as Senior Vice President. She was previously Chair of the Membership Committee and Chair of the Financial, Assurance and Risk Committee.

Beyond engineering, Julie is an accomplished landscape photographer, specializing in long exposure shots—a creative pursuit that builds her personal resilience, reflects her unique perspective and ongoing engagement with the world around her.

He subsequently studied civil engineering as a sandwich student at Surrey University. He spent 13 years working for Costain on major projects, including the Thames Barrier before moving to consultancy. Whilst at Costain, Richard received the Rowe and Maw scholarship to study for a part time master’s degree in construction law at Kings College, London.

After Costain he has subsequently held senior roles as a consultant and client. He was chair of the Society of Construction Law (www.scl.org.uk) in 2003-4. He is one of the 4 civil engineers who are honorary members of the Society of Construction Law. In 2006 he was appointed to the Construction Minister’s sounding board of 6, chaired by the late Sir Michael Latham, which advised on proposed changes to construction legislation. Richard was also a member of the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol Drafting Committee for several years. The protocol has been cited on hundreds of occasions in the international courts and construction tribunals. The objective of the SCL Protocol is to provide useful and authoritative guidance on delay and disruption issues that arise on construction projects.

Richard has been on the ICE, CIC and CIOB Adjudication panels for over 20 years, he has received over 100 adjudication and other tribunal appointments including Terminal 5 and the London Olympics. Richard also acts as an independent project advisor/reviewer on major projects. Richard was one of 18 contributors to the internationally acclaimed book Global Construction Success, published by Wiley in 2018. Richard is also a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv). He occasionally lectures and writes about client leadership, collaborative working, and project delivery.

The latter part of his career has involved working with large client organisations including Honda, UCL, New College Oxford, and the Church Commissioners. These successful client leadership roles have majored on both establishing clear project governance structures and establishing pro-active risk management processes including strategies for dispute avoidance. The role at New College resulted in an ICE carbon champion award. Richard has three times been part of a British Construction Industry Award (BCIA) winning project. These projects were at UCL, Ripon College Oxford and Honda, Swindon.

Richard was previously part of the chaplaincy support team at Bullingdon Prison and a shift leader at the Oxford Winter Night Shelter. Currently hed is chair of the charity www.lovesierraleone.org.

Andrew has 40 years’ experience within the infrastructure sector in the UK and overseas. As both a project manager and an executive officer, he has led and been involved in the delivery of many of the country’s major projects including High Speed One, London 2012 Olympics and Heathrow Terminal 5. He has held project management and executive positions at Systra, Kier Group and Balfour Beatty plc.

After joining AWE as a Non-Executive Director in 2021, Andrew accepted the position of Executive Director, Capital Programme in early 2023. He was responsible for the delivery of the company’s infrastructure investment programme, which will support the manufacture of the next generation of the UK’s nuclear deterrent. He currently has an assignment as an Executive consultant to the AWE Executive team.

Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has served as a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and was previously named Civil Engineering Manager of the Year by the Institution. In 2020, Andrew led a study on behalf of the ICE into the performance of infrastructure project delivery that led to a report, “Defining a Systems Approach to Infrastructure Delivery”, which was welcomed across the sector.

In December 2021, Andrew was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd, with specific responsibility for the investments in new infrastructure and equipment by MoD to support future at sea capability.

In June 2022, Andrew was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership, the University of Sydney, Australia.

In March 2024, Andrew was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Thames Water Utilities Ltd.

Lewis provides expert advice on whole life decarbonisation for local authorities, developers and governments at the highest level. With over 25 years’ experience of managing environmental risk and minimising whole life carbon, Lewis is responsible for many internationally recognised advances in addressing the climate crisis.

He is renowned for his skills and experience in reducing carbon on construction projects. He and his team won the NCE100 Low Carbon Leader award for two consecutive years for their work in reducing carbon and sharing best practice across the infrastructure sector.

Lewis wrote and presents the ICE’s Carbon Management in Infrastructure course and is also skilled in the application of climate change projections to ensure project resilience. He was a member of both the PAS2080:2023 (Carbon Management in Buildings and Infrastructure) Steering Group and its Technical Advisory Panel.

He works across governments to develop decarbonisation technical guidance and policy to help promulgate PAS 2080 and the consistent economic appraisal of whole life carbon in business cases, providing pragmatic advice to help projects align with the transition to net zero.

Lucy graduated from the University of Bristol in 1994 with a degree in civil engineering and study in continental Europe, which enabled her to pick up a few European languages and really was the doorway to her current career: she has been working and living in France since 2000, and in her current job with a French consultancy since 2002.

Lucy's main professional interests lie in tunnelling and contract management and her current position as project director with Egis Tunnels has given her many opportunities to work on a range of underground projects such as road tunnels in mountainous areas, urban tunnel renovation projects, the Grand Paris Express, the extension to Paris’s underground RER E line (EOLE), the Lyon Turin high speed rail line (probably the most complex tunnel driven in France to date, if not Europe or the world) amongst others.

Lucy has been a volunteer with the ICE nearly continuously since 1995, first in the Thames Valley region in the UK and in France since 2000. She has been a member of the International Committee since 2015, a general member of council since 2018 and a member of Nominations Committee since 2019.

In her spare time Lucy is the chair of the board of a cultural and sports association in her local town in France with 33 employees and a paid up membership of around 2000 children and adults, carrying out activities as diverse as improvisation, badminton, yoga and drawing.

At Sir Robert McAlpine she oversees the professional development of future ICE members and manages the social value for the A19 DBFO project as well as effecting positive changes through several affinity and leadership groups.

Her career has been wide ranging and varied and has included significant roles on high profile projects including the Thames Barrier, Hinkley Point C and DUBAL Aluminium. She is a Chartered Fellow of the ICE and the Chartered Management Institute as well as being a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society.

Paula strongly believes in inspiring our next generation of civil engineers and educating everyone to work towards an equitable and sustainable future. She is the driving force behind Engineering Together which brings together a wide selection of UK and International Engineering Institutions and bodies to work collaboratively to raise awareness and understanding of engineers and engineering. She set up Primary Voices to impress the need for urgency climate action whilst providing everyday solutions to help tackle the climate crisis and TheLine to tackle everyday language.

She is regularly invited to speak at national and international events on a range of topics including engineering, diversity and sustainability. Paula’s work in the industry and education has earned her many awards and accolades.

Paula has had many ICE roles including honorary editor and panel chair for the flagship ICE Proceedings: Civil Engineering 2021- 2023 and ICE Trustee Head of UK Regions 2021-2024. She also has many other roles including being honorary professor at Teesside University.

Yvonne graduated from University College Cork in 2010 with a first-class honours degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Struct). Due to the recession in Ireland, she moved to the UK to join Arup (2010-2015) and later Mott MacDonald (2015 to date). She was an active ICE Wales member, serving on committee (2010-2022), Trustee of ICE Council (2015-2018), Trustee of the ICE Benevolent Fund (2016-2018 and 2020-2022), ICE Wales Chair 2019-2021, and ICE Benevolent Fund Chair 2022.

Yvonne relocated home to Ireland in 2021. She was appointed Country Representative for the ICE Republic of Ireland and elected for a second term on Council as a General Member (2024-2026). She is a Supervising Civil Engineer, Sponsor, and Reviewer for ICE professional reviews, supporting members working towards qualification. She is also a member of NOMCO, the Policy Fellows, and STEMNET.

Yvonne’s professional interests are civil structures, flood risk, water quality, and water utilities consultancy services. She has designed and project managed a range of flood risk management and wastewater treatment schemes, progressing to Project Director and Framework Manager for AMP8 Wessex Water/YTL Capital Delivery. She is also an IRCA registered Lead Auditor of management systems to facilitate compliance with ISO 9001 (Quality), OHSAS 45001 (H&S), ISO 37001 (Anti-bribery), and ISO 14001 (Environmental) standards.

Yvonne commenced her third term as a Trustee of the ICE Benevolent Fund in 2025 and is a member of the Institute of Directors, working towards CDir qualification.

In her spare time Yvonne enjoys reading, exploring the world, and surfing very badly.

She is the founder director of UCL’s Engineering for International Development Centre. This centre focuses on engineering solutions for human development and wellbeing; and researches locally acceptable water-sanitation-energy solutions in low-middle income countries.

She has over 15 years of engineering industry experience in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the UK with consultancies to include hands-on experience of designing infrastructure for slums in partnership with local communities. She was awarded the prestigious BBOXX/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair fellowship that focuses on energy access in sub-Sahara Africa through smart solar solutions.

Priti was the editor-in-chief of ICE’s Engineering Sustainability journal for three years. She then went on to get elected to ICE Council and is a member of the Learned Society Committee. She previously was a board member of Happold Foundation and Engineers Against poverty.

Priti was named as one of the 100 most influential academics in the UK Government for her work in climate and sustainability by Apolitical and as the top 50 women in engineering in 2022. Priti’s research has influenced policy and practice especially the work around evidencing links between infrastructure and Sustainable Development Goals with governments and charities.

In his role as ICE’s Trustee Board member for the learning society portfolio, he is responsible for driving the strategic lifelong learning of the Institution and its wider engineering knowledge programme.

Ohis’ experience comprises decades of leading large, complex programmes across several sectors, from engineering design to construction delivery of a wide range of notable critical major infrastructure projects in the UK and overseas. He combines this strong hands-on industry experience with cutting-edge academic research expertise to address complex engineering problems.

His research focuses on the development of novel system-of-systems methodologies that engineers and infrastructure leaders can adopt to assess the vulnerability and resilience of complex interdependent infrastructure networks which are subject to natural hazards. His research had been widely published in notable journals and referenced in leading scholarly articles.

Ohis is an ICE Professional Reviewer and has previously served as a member of the ICE’s Standards Panel. He enjoys mentoring younger engineers and professionals and is committed to helping develop the next generation of civil engineers.

He is an experienced advisor to the public and private sector, and regularly provides advice at a senior level to local authorities and partnerships in the UK, aimed at the development of integrated transportation and regeneration solutions aimed at supporting economic growth in towns and cities.

He led the team that developed the first pan-Northern Strategic Transport Plan and associated 30-year Investment Programme as part of a secondment to Transport for the North. As a Divisional Director at Hydrock, now Stantec, he has been providing support to a number of local authorities on interventions identified in the previous Government’s Network North Policy Paper, the implementation of Bus Service Improvement Plans, the roll-out of active travel improvements and the delivery of a major public transport improvement scheme being funded through the Levelling Up Fund.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, currently acting as chair of the Policy and External Affairs committee. He chaired the steering group that led the ICE’s recent policy paper on a National Transport Strategy, as well as having been part of the steering groups for a number of State of the Nation reports and the Delivering a Northern Infrastructure Strategy report. He often gives evidence on behalf of the ICE to House of Commons Transport Select Committee inquiries, such as those into Major transport infrastructure projects: appraisal and delivery and Smart motorways.

He began his career at Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency, before joining the UK Government team responsible for delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Following the Games, Andrew worked in the Cabinet Office’s Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat, focusing on Eurozone policy and communications, before moving to the Ministry of Defence.

He spent two years at Number 10 before joining the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office where he worked on range of geopolitical and cyber issues.

Since 2022, Andrew has been with AtkinsRéalis, where he provides strategic counsel on communications, engagement, and strategy across the aerospace and defence, government, and critical national infrastructure sectors. He also supports senior leaders with internal communications strategy and narrative development.

He is a Chartered Management Consultant.