Clark Lecture 2025: Infrastructure – Can't Measure, Can't Improve?
- Location
- Building Y8, School of Engineering
- Dates
- Thursday 12 June 2025 (16:00-19:30)
We are very pleased to invite you to this year’s annual Clark Lecture in the School of Engineering at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, with Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering Cambridge University.
Infrastructure – Can’t Measure, Can’t Improve?
- 16:00 - Welcome Refreshments & Poster Display – Learning Lounge, School of Engineering
- 17:15 - The Clark Lecture, venue TBA
- 18:00 - Q&A
- 18:15 - Post-Lecture drinks and canapes – Learning Lounge, School of Engineering
- 19:30 - Depart
Lord Robert Mair is the Founding Head of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at Cambridge University and Emeritus Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering. After working full-time in industry for 27 years, in 1998 he was appointed Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge and Head of Civil Engineering.
He was Master of Jesus College 2001-11. He is one of the founding Directors of the (GCG), an international consulting company based in London, and has extensive experience of design and construction for a wide variety of civil engineering projects in many countries, particularly those involving geotechnical issues and underground construction.
He was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers 2017-18 and Chairman of the Department of Transport’s Science Advisory Council 2014-21. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society, and he is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
He was appointed an independent crossbencher in the House of Lords in 2015, and has been a member of its Select Committees on Science and Technology, Risk Assessment and Risk Planning, Education for 11 to 16-year olds, and the Built Environment; he was recently appointed Chair of the Select Committee on Science and Technology.
Registration
TBC