Routes to Fellowship with Rossella Nicolin

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.

Rosella Nicolin

Rossella Nicolin is head of sustainability for Europe in Laing O’Rourke. She is an experienced engineering professional and passionate driver for sustainability in the construction industry, having held senior leadership positions in the industry across engineering and sustainability.

She is an award-winning engineer with almost 20 years international experience in the construction sector.

She worked in many different countries and led major projects design and delivery across UK, Europe, Asia and USA. She’s a chartered structural and civil engineer in the UK, a licenced civil professional engineer in the USA and she’s a Fellow of both ICE and IStructE. 

In her role in Laing O’Rourke, Rossella has key executive responsibilities for the Europe Hub sustainability function, covering operations, projects and key strategic initiatives across UK and Middle East for both environmental and social sustainability agendas and company targets.