PUBLIC EVENT
The Academy advocates for decision makers to apply systems approaches in navigating and tackling complex challenges that the UK and the world are currently facing. This event will bring perspectives from academia and the public sector on how systems approaches could help form actionable solutions to ‘wicked’ problems, where the problems are so complex and interconnected that there are no clear solutions.
We will be joined by guest panellist Guru Madhavan, Senior Director of Programs at the US National Academy of Engineering, and a systems engineer by background, who will bring insights from his new book Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World. The panel will also include Professor Sarah Sharples, Professor of Human Factors, University of Nottingham, and Professor Yasmin Merali, Emeritus Professor of Systems Thinking at the University of Hull. The event will close with a networking reception with the opportunity to meet the panellists and continue discussions with policymakers, professionals and experts who are interested in adopting a systems approach.
Programme*
| 5.30pm | Arrival and registration |
| 6.00pm |
Welcome address Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering |
| 6.05pm |
Panel discussion followed by an audience Q&A Chair: Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE Speakers:
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| 7.00pm | Networking reception |
| 8.00pm | Close of event |
*programme subject to change
Venue and accessibility
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Recording notice
Please note this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.
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Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She co-chairs with the Science Minister the government’s Business Innovation Forum and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She is a trustee of various charities, member of the government’s Levelling Up Advisory Council and Digital Skills Council and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. She has been named as one of the ‘Inspiring 50’ women in tech in Europe and one of the most influential women in both UK engineering and UK tech. She has a Masters in Biochemistry (MBiochem) from Oxford and a PhD from Cancer Research UK/UCL. She is a Fellow of the IET, Honorary Professor at UCL and Honorary Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She has received honorary doctorates from UCL, Imperial College London, Newcastle, Brunel, Huddersfield and Southampton, as well as a Science Suffrage Award and the Engineering Professor’s Council President’s Medal. She was a finalist for the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award and was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019. Prior to her current roles, she was Deputy CEO at the Academy and served as Committee Specialist and later Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee.