Board of Trustees

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 >>

Jane Cutler

Deputy President

Jane has over thirty years of board and senior executive experience across public, commercial and not-for-profit sectors with particular experience in resource, oil and gas, financial services, maritime, environment and technology industries. She has actively served as a member and Chair on a diverse range of board subcommittees. 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

Peter Ashman is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide and currently holds senior roles in the University's Centre for Energy Technology and as Director of People and Infrastructure in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing an Mathematical Sciences, providing strategic leadership across several portfolios, including Diversity and Inclusion. He was previously Head of the School of Chemical Engineering (2014-18). Read more >>