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Professor Jim Hall, current ICE Senior Vice President, has been officially elected as the next ICE (Institute of Civil Engineers) president by ICE Council and will succeed Anusha Shah in November 2024.
Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford, Hall is a trustee of the ICE and until recently, held the carbon and climate portfolio.
Internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change, Hall is a member of the UK prime minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission.
Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI). He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment.
Among various distinctions, Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018.
He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019. He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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