We are pleased to announce that Lord Robert Mair CBE, chair of UKCRIC’s International Advisory Board, has been appointed as the new Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.
Lord Mair has an accomplished civil engineering career. He is the Founding Head of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at Cambridge University and Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering. After working 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 Geotechnical Consulting Group (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.