SISTech Director Paul Jowitt bids farewell to ICE Presidency

1st November 2010

Paul Jowitt

This week's Presidential Address marks the end of ICE President Paul Jowitt's busy year in office and, with it, the beginning of ICE President Elect Peter Hansford's year as ICE President. President Jowitt reflects on some of the key achievements and fond memories as ICE President.

Paul Jowitt, President of the ICE and SISTech Executive Director:

"Well, in the words of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – "Now is the Time – to say goodbye....!"

It's been a great honour to have served as President of the Institution, and as Chair of Council. It's vital that the Council has confidence in the Executive Board and the Executive Team, and that the membership at large has confidence in Council – and I'm grateful to Council for their help in ensuring this.

On the whole it has been a year of some significance, and some successes that can be celebrated – some planned, some less so, and some part of a long-standing strands of strategic activity that came to fruition.

The three key issues I wanted to focus on during my year – critical infrastructure, international development and supporting young engineers – are interlinked by the common thread of systems and systems thinking. There has been notable progress on all these issues, some of it coming in the final furlong.

On the morning before that last Council of the 2009-10 session, ICE had hosted the UK Government's launch of its National Infrastructure Plan – in which ICE's role was duly acknowledged. This activity and influence will be sustained over the next few years.

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To read the full interview with President Jowitt go to

http://communicate.ice.org.uk/ve/M916091U6259BxbO858/VT=0/page=38