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Dr Jean Venables OBE FREng DSc MSc BSc(Eng) CEng CEnv FICE MCIWEM MCIArb FCGI
Jean Venables is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist with an MSc in Public Health Engineering and a long involvement in water and wastewater engineering, water pollution control, water resources issues and flood risk management. She has extensive experience as a facilitator and chairman, and in undertaking major training consultancy assignments, as well as running professional development courses for civil engineers and other construction professionals. Before setting up Venables Consultancy with her husband, Roger Venables, she lectured in water and wastewater engineering, and contract law and administration for many years. In November 2008 Jean was inaugurated as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, as well as being a member of the ICE's Environment and Sustainability Board. In addition, she chairs the ICE Membership Committee and is a member of the Professional Conduct Committee. She was Chairman of the Regional Flood Defence Committee of the Environment Agency Thames Region for 9 years until 2003 and now chairs the Thames Estuary Partnership as well as the Expert Industry Independent Review Panel for the Thames Estuary 2100 Project, which is developing plans for flood risk management in the estuary until the year 2100. Until March 2006, she was also Chairman of the Research Advisory Committee of CAPM - the Centre for Aquatic Plant Management. Having been a Vice President of ADA, the Association
of Drainage Authorities, since 2003, Jean took over as its Chief
Executive at the beginning of 2006 (undertaken on a consultancy basis
through Venables Consultancy). ADA is the membership organisation for
those involved in water level management, including Internal Drainage
Boards, the Northern Ireland Rivers Agency, Environment Agency Flood
Defence Committees, Local Authorities, Consultants, Contractors and
Suppliers. Professor Roger K VenablesBSc(Eng) DipM CEng CEnv FICE MCIM ACGI Roger Venables has 30 years' wide-ranging experience
of civil, marine and offshore engineering, and research and development
in those fields. He has the distinctive combination of qualifications
and experience in both civil engineering and marketing. In parallel
with running Venables Consultancy and its sister company Crane Environmental,
he is also Royal
Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design
for Sustainable Development at Queens University, Belfast. |
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