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INSIGHTS Public Lecture: Making connections for a nature- and people-positive world by Professor Anusha Shah
Professor Anusha Shah, President, Institution of Civil Engineers
Date/Time: Thursday 14 November 2024, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
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Chaired by Hayley Fowler, Professor of Climate Change Impacts
Climate and nature, and ecosystems and human societies, are interdependent. Engineers and infrastructure professionals of today and tomorrow should focus not on building assets, but connections: leading a collaborative, transdisciplinary, ethics-based movement towards system-wide interventions that provide humanity with multiple benefits and restore and rejuvenate nature, rather than just do less harm to it.
Biography
Anusha Shah is the current president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She’s the third woman and first person of colour to be elected as president in over 200 years of ICE history.
She’s a senior director for resilient cities and UK climate change adaptation lead at Arcadis, a non-executive director at the Met Office, a trustee at the Green Alliance and a visiting professor at Edinburgh University.
Anusha specialises in water and environmental engineering and has over 22 years of experience in designing, managing and leading projects and programmes in the UK and internationally.
