Board of Trustees
Our Trustees are responsible for the strategic direction of IChemE. All top-level decisions are ratified by the Board. In addition, IChemE's annual budget and financial decisions are scrutinised and signed-off by the Trustees. Trustees have a joint responsibility to work together and drive the Institution forward.
Nominations are now open. The closing date is 25 February 2020 at 09:30 GMT.
Visit the Trustees elections section for more information on how to nominate.
Stephen Richardson
President
Stephen Richardson has been working as a chemical engineer since 1975, mainly at Imperial College but with extensive industrial consultancy, and continues to have a rich and fulfilling career working as one after retirement from full-time paid employment. Read more >>
Ken Rivers
Past President
Ken Rivers has over 35 years experience of the international downstream oil industry with Shell. He has recently returned from New Zealand where he was CEO of Refining NZ. Read more >>
Iain Martin
Honorary Treasurer
Iain Martin held a senior management role at Johnson Matthey PLC focusing on the effective development and commercialisation of new products from first inception through to commercial operation. He is now an independent consultant and Non-Executive Director. Read more >>
Jarka Glassey
Vice President - Learned Society
Jarka Glassey is a Professor of Chemical Engineering Education at Newcastle University. She graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and, following her PhD studies at Newcastle University, she became a lecturer and then a reader at the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials at Newcastle University. Read more >>
Ainslie Just
Vice President - Qualifications
Ainslie has over 40 years' experience in the process industries and consulting, including in technical, operational, management, construction, commissioning and consulting roles. Read more >>
Tom White
Vice President - Regions
Tom joined the IChemE in 1995 as an undergraduate then after graduation spent two years as a regional WhyNotChemEng champion before being elected as Chair of the London & South East Branch. Read more >>
Macsene Isles-Ahite
Ordinary Member
Macsene actively supports the work being done by the IChemE's Qualifications Committee to optimise the membership applications processes. She has also had some success in promoting member engagement opportunities via Interface. Read more >>
Keith Plumb
Ordinary Member
Keith Plumb graduated from UMIST in 1974 with a BSc(1st) in Chemical Engineering and joined Lankro Chemicals. In 1979 he achieved chartered status and started a two-year MBA course at MBS. Read more >>
Mark Sutton
Ordinary Member
Mark has over 30 years of technical, commercial and senior management experience in the process industries, most recently as Business Development Director for Johnson Matthey. Read more >>
Wendy Wilson
Ordinary Member
Wendy brings a combination of senior management, strategic leadership & project management skills from her career in the Oil and Gas Industry and is keen to help define and shape the improvements to the system and processes that are key to the IChemE's future aspirations. Read more >>
Jane Atkinson
Chair, UK Board
Jane brings executive management and leadership skills from large multi-nationals with an aim to help create a sustainable and exciting institution. She is a passionate ambassador for engineering particularly focussing on young people and early career professionals. Read more >>
Peter Ashman
Chair, Board of IChemE in Australia