Council / Office Bearers
The direction and management of the affairs of the Institution is confined to Council, which consists of a President, a Vice-President, an Honorary Treasurer, the Immediate Past President and fifteen Councillors.
The President presides over all meetings of the Institution and Council at which he is present, and regulates and keeps order in the proceedings.
Councillors hold office for three years and thereafter are ineligible for election for one year. The members of Council are elected at the Annual General Meeting.
Each year therefore there are around five vacancies for new members on Council, and Members, Fellows and Companions are encouraged to put their names forward to participate in the future direction of the Institution.
Elected Members for the Current Session
President
Dr Andy Pearson, FIES
Read BioAndy is the Group Managing Director of Star Refrigeration, a Glasgow-based industrial refrigeration contractor, and he lives in Cathcart. He spent time as a University of Strathclyde undergraduate working for the Ford Motor Company in Essex and IBM in Spango Valley, Greenock, and joined Star after graduating in 1986. He returned briefly to the University of Strathclyde to research his PhD thesis on the use of Carbon Dioxide as a refrigerant, receiving his doctorate in 2006. Andy is currently chair of the BSI committee on Refrigeration Safety and represents the interests of UK industry in the technical committees and working groups in CEN and ISO. He served as the President of the Institute of Refrigeration from 2010 to 2013 and currently chairs their International Committee. When he is not engineering refrigeration and heat pumps systems, Andy can be found singing in the Strathclyde University Chamber Choir or playing sax with the Heart and Soul Swing Band, a fund-raising venture on behalf of the Church of Scotland’s HIV programme.
Andy’s advice to young engineers is “develop your communication skills, particularly in writing and presenting your ideas. Whether you like it or not, most of your job is about “selling”, whether it is promoting your company to prospective customers or simply persuading your boss that you are doing a good job and deserve a pay rise.”
Vice President
Dick Philbrick, FIES
Past President
David Westmore, FIES
Executive Director
Prof Iain MacLeod, FIES
Read BioIain MacLeod’s career was in civil/structural engineering. His early experience in practice was mainly in the design of industrial structures such as steel and pulp mills. His early research work was in the development of computer models for the design of tall buildings leading to the use of AI techniques for the structural design of buildings and the identification and use of design and modelling processes. He held a number of appointments at UK universities, retiring from the post of Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. He continues to seek to identify how people achieve success in situations of complex uncertainty, not only in engineering but across the disciplines. He was President of the Institution of Engineers in Scotland 2012-14.
His advice to young people: Seek to be multi-skilled. Do not rely only on education for that. Develop your thinking skills and your skills for doing things. For example: study the principles of teamwork and leadership and apply them; learn to touch type at a speed that allows you to transcribe, in real time, what people say at a meeting; learn to be a power user of software, e.g. learn to use macros in spreadsheets; learn the basic principles of accountancy.
Honorary Treasurer
Prof Stuart Cameron, FIES
Members of Council
Prof Ian Arbon, FIES
Prof Tom Buggy, FIES
Derek Ian Elder, FIES
Read BioDerek served an apprenticeship with Crouch & Hogg Consulting Civil Engineers. He became a Chartered Engineer in 1984 and was involved in property development, and the policy and strategy of economic development, before taking a secondment to the Confederation of British Industry in 1994. In 1999 Derek returned to Scottish Enterprise as its Liaison Manager at the new Scottish Parliament. He ran his own public affairs consultancy before joining the Institution of Civil Engineers as its Scottish Director in April 2005.Derek returned to public affairs consultancy in April 2011. Derek is keen to use his experience in public affairs to raise the profile of the Institution and of engineering, particularly with politicians and the media.
Graeme Fletcher, FIES
Read BioAfter completing his studies at Southampton Institute of Higher Education and an engineering cadetship with BP Shipping Ltd, Graeme spent the next 20 years on various ship types trading worldwide. This culminated in service as Chief Engineer on Irish Sea Ro-Ro ferries and attainment of an Open University Honours Degree. Since coming ashore in 1998 he has been responsible for safety and technical operations both on shore and afloat during a period of great advancement and technical development at Western Ferries (Clyde) Limited. In his spare time, he is an enthusiastic veteran rower and coach for Castle Semple Rowing Club.
Lewis Hammell, MIES
Robert Harley, FIES
Read BioRobert served his apprenticeship with Yarrow Shipbuilders, now BAE Systems Surface Ships. He left to work for Dorbyl in Durban, South Africa, and on returning to Yarrows in 1979, won a company sponsorship to Strathclyde University completing an honours degree in Naval Architecture in 1982. Robert recently retired from BAE Systems Surface Ships, with a career spanning the Type 22, Type 23, Malaysian Frigates, Brunei OPVs, Type 45 Destroyers, QEC Aircraft Carriers and the Type 26 Global Combat Ship.
John Hayden, FIES
Paula Pappas, MIES
Read BioPaula studied Civil Engineering with Architecture at the University of Glasgow. In 2017,she was a member of the FemEng in Rwanda Team that travelled to Kigali to deliver engineering outreach workshops to schoolchildren in Rwanda. In 2018, she took on the role of Project Manager and returned to Kigali, managing a team of 17 university students and four high school graduates.
Paula graduated last summer with an M.Eng. in Civil Engineering with Architecture and was presented with the Glasgow University Engineers’ Society Award Medal and Prize, which is awarded to the First Class Honours Engineering graduate considered most likely to make a notable contribution to the engineering profession and to the well being of their country. Since September 2018, she has been working as a Graduate Structural Engineer at Woolgar Hunter in Glasgow
Dr Malcolm Robb, FIES
Paul Sweeney, FIES
Kimberley Travers, MIES
Read BioKim graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a master’s degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in 2012. Since graduation she has been employed by DNV GL (ex. Det Norske Veritas).
Starting on the graduate program, she spent time in the Glasgow, London, Oslo and Rotterdam offices before returning to Glasgow to take up a position as Fleet in Service Surveyor. Kim is currently involved in fleet in service activities throughout the UK and holds position as Flag Liaison Officer between DNV GL and Flag States based in the UK.
Outside of office hours, Kim is a keen hillwalker, climber, skier and is happiest when out in the mountains.
Norman Wardil, FIES
Gregor Colville
Graham Bibby
Read BioGraham is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and a “Rude Mechanical”. He has latterly been managing director of a number of mechanical engineering companies, serving the water treatment, mechanical and fluid handling, renewable technology and engineering services markets worldwide.
Graham has focussed on the development of young engineers, via mentoring, support of Young Engineers Clubs, and by identifying and nurturing appropriate talent.
As a graduate engineer Graham developed his career with the Weir Group, where he was deputy MD of Weir Pumps, growing the group’s energy profile and developing products and systems for the nuclear safety and oil extraction markets. He took over the reins of Weir Westgarth, the group’s major projects company, and won exporter of the year. Having grown the company’s capability in offshore water treatment from a standing start to the world leading technology, he led the sale of the business to French Multinational Veolia.
Graham then worked with American engineers Jacobs as UK Operations Director, establishing projects partnerships with major UK Utilities. Latterly Graham has been focussed on developing technologies for the burgeoning renewable energy market, focussing on offshore technologies, where his passion for technology and the environment combines with his love of the sea.
Graham has focussed on the development of young engineers, via mentoring, support of Young Engineers Clubs, and by identifying and nurturing appropriate talent.
Graham is a keen sailor, and also spends as much time as possible in SW France.
Honorary Members of Council
President 2016 -2018
Karen Dinardo, FIES
President, 2010- 2012
Prof Gordon Masterton, OBE FREng FRSE FIES
President, 2008- 2010
Prof David Harrison, FIES
President 2006 -2008
Ernest Chambers, FIES
President 2004 - 2006
Crawford Gorrie, FIES
President 2001 - 2004
Prof Anthony Slaven, CIES
President 1999 - 2001
Carlo Dinardo, FIES
President 1991 - 1993
Ian Broadley, FIES
President 1983 -1985
Alexander Stephen, FIES
Past Presidents of the Institution are ex-officio honorary members of Council.