John Mitchell Lecture 2023: road asset, socioeconomic & fatality risk from debris flow

Professor David Toll

David Toll is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University. He is a Fellow of ICE and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He has been Chair of Technical Committees of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and the Federation of International Geo-Engineering Societies (FedIGS). He has also been Chair of ICE North East and the Northern Geotechnical Group. He has been carrying out research into climate resilience of infrastructure and information technology applied to civil engineering for 30+ years and has published over 200 papers and 12 books.

Mike Winter

Mike is a Charted Civil Engineer (FICE), a Chartered Geologist and a RoGEP Adviser. Director of Winter Associates his areas of expertise include landslides; engineering in glacial soils; soil compaction; soil acceptability for earth working; slope stability; soil slope strengthening; retaining systems; and the use of waste geomaterials and waste materials in geo-structures.

This work has been widely adopted in teaching and practice from his near-300 publications. He is a former QJEGH Chief Scientific Editor and led the organisation of the 2015 XVI ECSMGE. He is Visiting Industrial Professor of Engineering Geology & Geotechnics at the University of Portsmouth, and an Adjunct Professor in the UNESCO-Chair Programme on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction, at Shimane University, Matsue, Japan. Mike has worked in 35 countries on each of the world’s continents, with the major exception of Antarctica – in this respect, Mike remains open to offers.