Our Trustees
EAP’s Board of Trustees strives to ensure that it comprises the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to ensure that the charity is well governed. Individual trustees are appointed in the first instance on the basis of how their individual attributes and competencies add value to the Board. The Board also recognises the importance of diversity and is committed to recruit and retain trustees who reflect and have knowledge of the communities and areas in which the charity operates. The board currently comprises seven members and meets 3 to 4 times a year.
Paul Jowitt CBE, BSc (Eng), PhD, ACGI, DIC, CEng, FICE, FRSA, FRSE
Current EAP Chairman, trustee since April 2005 and Immediate Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Paul is Professor of Civil Engineering Systems and Executive Director of the Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology at Heriot Watt University. He is also a Board Member of Scottish Water. He graduated from Imperial College, and was a Lecturer there from 1974 until he moved to Heriot Watt in 1987, becoming Head of Civil Engineering from 1989 to 1999. In 1997 he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he still has strong connections with the engineering community. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.Paul’s major interests are sustainable development and systems-level solutions in engineering and the environment, particularly in water resources, asset management and water distribution systems. Paul was Chair of the ICE Presidential Commission – “Engineering without Frontiers” – that examined the engineer’s contribution to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals. Paul also has a strong interest in the educational and professional formation of the civil engineer, chairing an ICE/JBM Task Group to embed sustainable development into engineering curricula and professional development. He is currently a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and serves on its Environment and Sustainability Board.He is Editor of "Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems", a former Editor of the ICE’s Water, Maritime and Energy Journal and currently a member of the Editorial Panel of the ICE Journal “Engineering Sustainability”. Paul is a trustee of the Forth Bridges Visitor Centre. He is a member of "The Edge" – an ICE/RIBA/CIBSE Ginger Group created to increase public and political awareness of the role of engineers and architects. In 1996 his lecture on water resources - “From the Metamorphosis of Ajax to the Sweet Water of Leith” – featured in the Edinburgh International Science Festival.In his private life he enjoys old cars and old houses, being the co-owner of one of Edinburgh’s last surviving mews stables properties in the Dean Village. Since 1966 he has been the owner, driver and restorer of a 1937 Morgan Motor Tricycle (a Matchless MX4 990cc V-Twin powered Barrel Back Super Sports). He also enjoys painting and sculpture.
Tim Sharp
Tim Sharp is the Director of Corporate Communications for Balfour Beatty plc, the international engineering, construction and services group. He has been a Trustee since July 2002.
As Director of Corporate Communications for one of the UK’s leading international engineering groups and having worked in the engineering sector with Balfour Beatty and previously BICC plc, Tim Sharp has nearly 20 years’ experience of international manufacturing, major projects and engineering construction. He has extensive work experience not only in the UK but also in the US, Canada, continental Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Australasia. He was a senior member of a consulting team responsible for reorganising the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Social Welfare & Social Affairs, on which assignment he spent many months in the Kingdom. Prior to joining BICC in 1984, he was a management consultant, first with the French group, Metra Consulting, and latterly with the US company, William M Mercer, working for international clients on organisation development and communications issues.
Tim is a fellow of the Institute of Public Relations. He is joint author of A Case of Active Social Marketing, Manpower Policy and Individuals – the Management of Change, a comprehensive study of the workings and regulation of the UK, Swedish and German labour markets.
Neil Bruce, CEng MRINA, MBA, FIoD .
Trustee since October 2007.
Neil was appointed an Executive Director of the board of AMEC plc in January 2009. Neil also remains as Chief Operating officer of AMEC’s Natural Resources Division a position he has held since April 2006. Prior to this Neil was Managing Director of AMEC’s Oil & Gas division where he spear-headed the internationalisation of the Oil & Gas group.
Neil is a Chartered Engineer and has a Masters Degree both from Newcastle University and is a fellow of the Institute of Directors and the Energy Institute. With over 25 years experience in the oil and gas industry, and a career which has covered a number of senior management roles in Upstream, Midstream and Downstream sectors, in various regions of the world. Formerly at Atlantic Richfield where Neil held various positions including Head of Greenfield and Brownfield projects.
Neil is a keen supporter of industry development, and is Chairman of the International Oil & Gas Business Advisory Board. During April 2006, Neil completed the three year Chairmanship of the Offshore Contractors Association, and was former member of the Step Change in Safety group, CRINE Industry initiatives and the Northern Offshore Federation.
Neil is a Patron of CLAN (Cancer Link Aberdeen & North-east) charity and a Burgess of Guild of the City of Aberdeen. Neil received in March 2008 the Institute of Directors’ - Director Award for Developing Young People.
Anthony Marshall
Trustee since July 2008. Partner at Lovells LLP.
Tony has wide-ranging contentious and non-contentious construction contract experience, gained on projects in England and Africa and latterly in Hong Kong, where he was based from 1987, heading the firm's regional practice in this field from 1994 to 2002.
He was responsible for drafting contract conditions for use in substantial parts of Hong Kong's new airport project (which involved major reclamation in order to construct most of the airport in the sea, as well as the creation of an entirely new road and rail infrastructure linking the airport with the Central business district on Hong Kong Island). These conditions were tailored to the needs of a massive project which required to be built within budget and to the strictest timescale. He has also worked on the forms of contract for use in projects around the Asian region, and latterly in the UK, involving a range of types of development. These have included: airports, residential and office buildings, hotels, power plants, process plants, railways and light rail systems, reclamation schemes, water treatment plants and waste-to-energy plants.
Tony has also advised on issues arising between the parties in the course of many of these projects, and handled the resolution of disputes where necessary. This has included extensive experience of major arbitration and court proceedings, as well as mediation, adjudication, dispute review boards and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Ron Watermeyer BScEng, DEng, PrEng, CEng, PrCM, PrPCM, FSAICE, FIStructE, FICE
Trustee since 2005. Ron Watermeyer is a director of Soderlund and Schutte, consulting engineers, Johannesburg.
Ron Watermeyer has been a director of Soderlund and Schutte since 1990. He has been at the forefront of many development initiatives in South Africa since the early 1990s including the reinterpretation of building regulations, the classification of sites in terms of geotechnical characteristics and building practice, changing construction methods, technologies and practices to facilitate socio-economic development imperatives and the conceptualisation and implementation of a construction procurement system to reflect societal expectations. He served as a vice president of IStructE in 2001/02 and SAICE’s 101st President in 2004. He has developed many South African National Standards and project led the development of the series of international standards for construction procurement (ISO 10845). In 2009 he was awarded a Doctor of Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand and in 2010 the ICE International Medal for contributions over time to the delivery of infrastructure
Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons), MBA, MCIM, MCIArb, CCMI, FRSA, FICE.
Trustee since March 2011.
Nelson Ogunshakin is the Chief Executive of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) and over the past five years has been responsible for the repositioning and strategic turnaround of ACE. Nelson has extensive UK and international experience including Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North America within the construction and infrastructure development sectors where he has been involved in project development, procurement (EPC / D&B / BOOT / DBFO/ PFI /PPP) delivery, financial management, technical and financial advisory, corporate restructuring, investment planning and corporate development. Nelson is also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers UK, a non- Executive Board Director of Thomas Telford Ltd, Engineering UK, a council member of Institution of Civil Engineers and Chairman of AEO Group, UK. He is also a visiting professor at Imperial Business School (Imperial College, London, UK) and a steering group member of Reading University research council.
Jo Downham ACMA
Trustee and Treasurer since July 2011
Jo is the Institution of Chemical Engineers’ (IChemE ) Finance and Business Director and in 2008 she also took on the role of HR and Facilities management. She is also Secretary of the Chemical Engineers Benevolent Fund and the IChemE staff Pension Scheme. She graduated in European Finance and Accounting from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995, which included a year at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany. She joined the IChemE as a Trainee Management Accountant in 1998 following her previous role as Customer Service Assistant at the Halifax Building Society. On joining IChemE, Jo started studying for the CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification, which she completed and qualified in 2005. She is now studying for the ICSA (Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators) qualification.
Date Published: August 03, 2011
Source: Engineers Against Poverty