Professor Sarah Hainsworth and Paul Taylor have been elected as new Trustees.
Dr Steve Denton has been elected Vice President for Committee Coordination and will also serve as a Trustee.
Dame Dawn Childs has been elected as the new Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and will also serve as a Trustee.
Dr Enass Abo-Hamed, a member of the Academy’s Awardee Excellence Community, has been co-opted as our first non-Fellow Trustee. Dr Abo-Hamed became an Enterprise Fellow in 2017 and has since engaged with the Academy through the This is Engineering campaign and continues to support enterprise activities, especially relating to sustainability. She is an advocate of engineering and social entrepreneurship.
From 19 September the full Trustee Board membership is as follows:
President
- Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE
Vice Presidents
- Catriona Schmolke FREng, Vice President for Fellowship Engagement
- Dr Steve Denton FREng, Vice President for Committee Coordination
- Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng
Members
- Dr Enass Abo-Hamed
- Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi CBE FREng FRS
- Jane Atkinson CBE FREng
- Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng
- David Eyton CBE FREng
- Dame Sue Gray DBE CB FREng
- Dr Carolyn Griffiths FREng
- Professor Sarah Hainsworth OBE FREng
- Professor Ric Parker CBE FREng
- Professor Nilay Shah OBE FREng
- Paul Taylor CBE FREng
Chief Executive
- Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
Board Secretary
- Sylvia Hampartumian, Associate Director, Fellowship and Governance
Sir Simon Bollom KBE CB FREng, Chris Earnshaw OBE FREng and Professor Eileen Harkin Jones OBE FREng have stepped down, having come to the end of their terms as Trustees, and we thank them for their service.
Academy President Professor Sir Jim McDonald says: “The Trustee Board is the Academy’s governing body and is accountable for setting the Academy’s strategy to ensure it continues to deliver public benefit from engineering excellence and technology innovation. We thank our Trustees for taking on this important responsibility and look forward to working with them during the coming year.”
Notes for editors
The Royal Academy of Engineering is harnessing the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone.
In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we’re growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public.
Together we’re working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.