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Professor Raffaella Ocone OBE FREng FRSE Raffaella Ocone OBE, FREng, FRSE holds degrees from the Università di Napoli, Italy, and Princeton University, USA. She is the Chair of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK, and Guest Professor at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Currently, she serves as the Deputy President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and will become the 84th President in 2025. In 2007, Raffaella was honoured with the title of Cavaliere by the President of the Italian Republic. In 2019, she was recognised as one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector by Inclusive Boards, in partnership with the Financial Times. In 2017, she became the inaugural “Caroline Herschel Visiting Professor” in Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in recognition of her contributions to engineering ethics. Raffaella’s research primarily focuses on modelling multiphase reactive systems, with a particular emphasis on developing responsible technologies in the energy sector. Her current work centres on advancing low-carbon hydrogen production. Raffaella was Chair of the Engineering Ethics Advisory Group. She is also Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Aston University teaching professional skills, ethics, sustainability, global responsibility, inclusive outcomes, and ESG to MSc and Degree apprenticeship students. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and sits on the Education and Skills Committee, as well as the Africa Engineers Steering Group, and is UK representative of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations, and incoming President of the Commonwealth Engineers’ Council. She is also a Fellow of IOM3 where she sits on the Sustainable Development Group. Professor Mike Bramhall Mike is a Professor at The Engineering and Design Institute (TEDI-London) and has a strong track record in project-based learning and has published widely in innovations in engineering education. His technical subject area is in metallurgy and materials science, having worked in the steel industry before entering academia. In a previous role he was the Assistant Dean for Academic Development for the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering & Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University of which he is now an Emeritus Professor. Mike has been on Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) teams for Subject Review, Higher Education Review, Quality Review Visits and Quality and Standards Review for a wide range of Universities, Further Education colleges and alternative providers. Mike is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and is also an active member and on the Board of the UK Engineering Professors’ Council, serving on the Ethics task group, and being the Chair of its Recruitment and Admissions sub-committee. Mike worked nationally as an Associate Director of the Materials Subject Centre from 2003 to 2012 at the University of Liverpool. Mike is also a National Teaching Fellow and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Emma Crichton Engineering shapes our world, and Emma dedicates her career to reshaping how we engineer to secure a safe and just future for all. Emma is a chartered civil engineer with over a decade of experience in the water and social sectors across the UK and India. A trained facilitator and passionate advocate for globally responsible engineering, Emma currently serves as Innovation Director at Engineers Without Borders UK, where she has expanded educational initiatives to deliver over a million hours of learning on globally responsible engineering annually. Beyond her role at Engineers Without Borders, Emma is a trustee at Azuko, an architecture charity, and chair at the Useful Simple Trust, a certified B-Corp and Social Enterprise. She also represents Engineering UK on the board of the Engineering Council, the UK’s regulator for the engineering profession. Claire Donovan Jarka Glassey Professor Jarka Glassey completed her biochemical engineering studies at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and currently works at Newcastle University, UK. Her research approach is based on the use of machine learning, AI and hybrid modelling for bioprocess development, scale-up and process intensification. She is currently VP Executive of EFCE and VP Executive of ESBES and is actively involved in the EFCE working party on Education as well as the Measurement, modelling, monitoring and control section of ESBES. She was elected a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and is chairing the Board of Engineering Skills X, Engineering Skills for Safety. She is passionate about the education of future generations of chemical engineers and her research in this area includes active teaching methodologies (such virtual and augmented reality) in education and assessment of knowledge and professional skills. Dr. Sarah Jayne Hitt SFHEA She has served as project manager for the EPC’s Ethics and Sustainability Toolkit initiatives, is Transferable Skills Lead for the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology at NMITE and is Visiting Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. She has led national and international workshops on interdisciplinary learning and teaching and worked with academic and industry partners on various engineering education initiatives. She has recent publications in the International Journal of Engineering Education and The Journal of Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education. Dr. Sarah Junaid Sarah Junaid, MEng, PhD, CEng (MImechE), PFHEA is a Senior Lecturer and former Programme Director in Mechanical Engineering and Design Engineering at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her pedagogical research interests include student learning, engineering ethics and professional skills development. She is one of the original Advisory Group members of the Engineering Ethics Toolkit, served as a Member-at-Large at the International CDIO Counsel, a member of the steering committee at the European Society for Engineering Education SEFI Special Interest Group in Ethics, team lead in ethics policy work, and a contributor to The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education 2025. She has led regional and international academic teams and workshops on developing ethical skills within engineering programmes. She is a collaborator in several British Council international partnerships enabling knowledge and skills exchange on engineering education and programme development with Pakistan and South Africa. Steven Kerry Professor Thomas Lennerfors Dr. Darian Meacham Professor Chike Oduoza Chike F Oduoza CEng, FIChemE, SFHEA is a Professor in Process and Manufacturing Engineering and Head of Chemical Engineering at University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has been employed in UK HEI for almost 31 years, during which he won research grants from Industry, EPSRC, and EU FP7, and has published many research papers in journals and conferences, books and book chapters. He has a variety of research interests including on themes underpinned by NetZero carbon emissions, environmental sustainability, cleaner energy, and circular economy. He has supervised 32 PhD students to completion on topics such as electroplating and corrosion protection of metals, process risk management, management and economics of gas flaring, life cycle assessment and remediation of oil spills, cloud computing applied to oil exploration, modelling and characterisation of bidirectional multiphase flow in vertical tubes, and modelling of hydrogen blended combustion of natural gas. He was UK Chair, Society of the Chemical Industry, Electrochemical Technology Group (2006 – 2010), member EPSRC Peer Review College, and Evaluator for European Union Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. He sits on the UK Engineering Education and Employability Skills (EEES) committee of the Engineering Professors Council, and UK Engineering Ethics Committee. He is a member of several international scientific and technical committees, and a former member of the Board of Directors Supergen Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research group. He is Guest Editor of Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing and International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Dr. Ahmet Omurtag Goudarz Poursharif CEng SFHEA He is the Chair of Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment’s Birmingham Steering Group and the Chair of Sustainable Development in Teaching working group at Aston University. His two main passions are education and engineering for a sustainable development, so since 2012, Goudarz has combined his two main passions by embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the Engineering curricula of both University of Sheffield and Aston University as well as working directly with industry to upskill their sustainability skills. He has funded the Engineering for People Design Challenge at Aston University and co-led the development and implementation of MSc Sustainable Engineering Aston University. He is also an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Johnny Rich Before joining the EPC, Johnny has already worked on many issues of concern to our members. Over the past 25 years, he led Push’s research – such as on drop-out rates and student debt – which has had direct impacts on policy. Johnny’s thought leadership, such as his papers for a graduate levy and a national access fund (2018) and on employability (2015) for the Higher Education Policy Institute, have been influential throughout the sector. Policy issues are also a significant part of his consultancy work, along with communications. His clients have included the European Commission, HEFCE, U-Multirank, as well as many universities, recruiters and charities. He’s a regular speaker at conferences, awards and in schools. In 2013, his novel A Human Script was published. Matthew Studley Matthew Studley’s career in robotics has been driven by a commitment that Godlike Technology results in more good than harm, and that it should be possible for citizens to influence the future beyond the laissez-faire approach of abnegating responsibility to market forces. As the co-Director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, he drives strategic initiatives, fosters international collaborations, and ensures research aligns with ethical standards. His work spans robotics, machine learning and AI, autonomous weapons, standards and sustainability, with a keen focus on embedding ethics into every stage of technological development. He serves as a board member for the European Robotics League via euRobotics aisbl, where he advances ethical frameworks and international robotics competitions. Professor Mike Sutcliffe Jonathan Truslove Dr Jonathan Truslove is the Education and Skills Lead for Engineers Without Borders UK. He develops opportunities to learn about how to put global responsibility at the heart of how engineering is taught and practiced, including learning pathways to develop competencies in global responsibility, practical ways of reimagining engineering curricula and driving change in engineering education, and international design challenges to broaden participants’ awareness of the social, environmental, economic, and ethical implications of engineering alongside technical skills. He leads the research and development of Engineers Without Borders UK’s educational portfolio, and monitoring and evaluation of the organisation’s impact. Jonathan is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in the value and relationship between sustainable infrastructure and communities. He has experience in water and sanitation access in rural and challenging environments in Scotland, Rwanda, Malawi and Cambodia. Jonathan was awarded his PhD in 2020, through the Scottish Government Climate Justice Fund Water Futures Programme which focussed on addressing the sustainability burden placed on rural communities in Malawi by the drive to meet global coverage targets. Dr. Nicola Whitehead Dr. Jude Bramton Dr. Jude Bramton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical, Electronic & Mechanical Engineering, and Programme Director of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol. She holds a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, and worked as a qualified Engineering Project Manager in industry before coming back to teaching in academia. She currently teaches design and manufacturing, and engineering management to primarily undergraduate students and is an accredited Fellow (FHEA) of the UK Higher Education Academy. She is also a Toolkit Content Co-ordinator within the EPC’s Ethics Ambassadors community. Andrei Dragomir Kathryn Fee Nina Fowler Patric Granholm Martin Griffin Martin is a neurodivergent (autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic) and visually impaired Geotechnical Engineer with the consultancy GHD. He has 20+ years of professional experience working for UK-based international consultancies on national and international engineering projects specialising in ground risk management, ground models and material characterisation. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, a Chartered Geologist, a European Geologist, and a Fellow of the Institute of Diversity and Equality Professionals. Currently, he is serving as the Geological Society Vice President for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, a former committee member of several other national executives, and a Chartership Assessor. He is a mentor, blogger, writer, presenter, advisor, and collaborator with several UK universities concerning disability and neurodiversity in STEM. He is the inaugural chairperson of the Equal Engineers Neurodiversity Network and leads GHD’s Employees Resource Group for Neurodivergent staff. He spends approximately 20% of his work time on all aspects of EDI, from policy framing to coaching others. Finally, he is a national multiple-award winner Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for being a passionate role model, focused engineer, and tireless influencer making workplaces and society more equitable and inclusive to one and all. Isobel Grimley Engineering Professors’ Council Alison Gwynne-Evans James E. Harper Senior Product Manager, Knovel /Elsevier Cortney Holles Dr. Irene Josa She is interested in interdisciplinary research at the intersection between engineering and socio-environmental systems. She believes in sustainable engineering as key for making this world a better place by improving people’s quality of life and solving several of today’s most important global challenges. She is also an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Konstantinos Konstantis Konstantinos Konstantis is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. The title of his dissertation is “Contextualizing the Emergence of Engineering Ethics”. He has a Master’s degree in STS and he has also graduated from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. He is a Visiting Student (January 2024 – April 2024) at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge and he was the 2022 Elizabeth & Emerson Pugh Young Scholar in Residence at the IEEE History Center. Dr. Gill Lacey Dr Gill Lacey is a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, MIEEE (2012), MIET (2017). Her focus is low carbon technologies, especially Smart Grid and the effect of EV charging on networks. She runs courses around decarbonising the electricity grid and renewable energy, together with entry level 3 courses designed to equip students with the relevant skills for undergraduate engineering. Partnerships with industry, such as offshore wind installers, community energy charities and local entrepreneurs, make the courses relevant, interesting and aspirational. She is passionate about sustainable technologies; with rooftop solar, domestic storage, and a driver of electric vehicles for ten years, this is more than a job, it is a way of life. She is also an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Diana Martin Dr. Sandhya Moise Onyekachi Nwafor Onyekachi Nwafor is a seasoned professional in the field of renewable energy and energy transition, with a strong passion for sustainability and driving the transition towards a low-carbon economy. He is currently the CEO of KatexPower. His expertise includes designing and implementing solar PV systems to provide clean and sustainable energy services to off-grid and underserved communities. Onyekachi is also the membership manager for Western Africa at the Global Waste Cleaning Network, advocating for environmental protection and waste management. With a background in electrical engineering, green energy, and climate finance, he is also a certified energy transformation expert. He has actively participated in various international conferences and workshops, where he shares his knowledge and experiences with industry experts and institutions. He is also an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Alasdair Reid Elizabeth Robertson Neil Rogers Neil is a solar PV engineer and renewables enthusiast, having spent many years designing, testing and commissioning solar PV systems throughout the world, for such applications as telecoms, cathodic protection and well-head control to name but a few. His expertise also includes product design of high volume solar powered consumer products, as well as low volume control and monitoring systems, to interact with both amorphous and crystalline solar cells with various battery technologies. Recently he spent his time as an academic, teaching and lecturing around the UK in electronic engineering and solar PV systems. Having experienced many years volunteering and working in developing countries throughout the world, he is aware that there is a need for a locally made solar power supply. He is currently helping to develop such a range of products with various companies in sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Manuela Rosa Dr Manuela Rosa graduated in Civil Engineering (University of Lisbon), holds an MSc in Renovation of Architectural and Landscape Heritage (University of Évora) and a PhD in Land Use Planning and Environmental Strategies (University of Seville). She is Associate Professor at Institute of Engineering of University of Algarve, where she lectures on Sustainability, Sustainable Urbanism, Sustainable Mobility and Inclusive Design. She was the scientific coordinator of the ACCES4ALL Project – Accessibility for all in Tourism (2017-2019) and the co-coordinator of the Project SusTowns – Enhancing SUStainable tourism attraction in small fascinating med TOWNS (2020-2022). She is an integrated member of the Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being – CINTURS. She is a contributor to the EPC’s Engineering Ethics Toolkit and Sustainability Toolkit, and an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Dr. J.L. Rowlandson Karin Rudolph Karin Rudolph is the Founder of Collective Intelligence, a Bristol-based consultancy that provides resources and training to help startups, and SMEs embed ethics into the design and development of technology. She is currently preparing the launch of the Ethical Technology Network, a pioneering initiative to help businesses identify, assess, and mitigate the potential ethical and societal risks of AI and other emerging technologies. She is also an EPC Ethics Ambassador. Ekaterina Rzyankina Paola Seminara Paola Seminara is a Research Assistant at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) supporting the Housing, Construction, and Infrastructure (HCI) Skills Gateway in delivering integrated inclusive routes to construction careers. With research expertise in building performance, application, and utilization of wood-based materials, in 2023, right after completing the MSc in Architectural Technology & Building Performance at ENU, Paola started a new journey as a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is titled “Experimental Performance Optimisation of Homegrown Natural Fibre Insulation for Building Decarbonisation”. Beyond her professional life, Paola is deeply passionate about engineering ethics and experiential learning. She believes in stakeholder engagement, integrated strategy, and gender equality as essential pillars for fostering a sustainable construction industry. Yann Serreau Dr. Fiona Truscott Fiona Truscott has a BA/MSc in Natural Science (Chemistry) from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Organic Chemistry from the University of Oxford. Following her PhD, she conducted postdoctoral research on the interface of Biology and Chemistry at the ICSN, part of the CNRS Delegation Ile-de-France Sud. She then moved to conduct postdoctoral research in the Department of Biochemical Engineering, UCL, working on the application of automation technology to Biochemical Engineering. Currently she is an Associate Professor (Teaching) with the Integrated Engineering Programme and Centre for Engineering Education in the Faculty of Engineering at UCL. She is the Engineering Challenges Module Lead, a cross faculty, large scale team project module for first year undergraduates. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and co-chair of the SEFI DEI Special Interest Group. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary teaching, teamwork and the embedding of social factors in Engineering Education. Dr. Natalie Wint Associate Professor Scarlett Xiao, PFHEA Dr. Yujia Zhai Coming soon. . 
Heriot-Watt University
Kings College London; Royal Academy of Engineering; Aston University
TEDI-London
Engineers Without Borders UK
Royal Academy of Engineering
Newcastle University
Engineering Professors’ Council, NMITE, ENU (Project Manager for the Engineering Ethics Toolkit)
Aston University
Rolls-Royce
Uppsala University
Maastricht University
University of Wolverhampton
Nottingham Trent University
Aston University
Engineering Professors’ Council (Chief Executive)
UWE Bristol
TEDI-London
Engineers Without Borders UK
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Engineering Professors’ Council (Research and Editorial Executive)
University of Bath
Ultra Group
University of Bristol
National University of Singapore, University of Houston
Queen’s University Belfast
Uppsala University
Åland University of Applied Sciences
Knight Piésold Consulting
University of Cape Town
Colorado School of Mines
University College London
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Teeside University
UCL
University of Bath
KatexPower
Edinburgh Napier University
University of Strathclyde
Independent Scholar
Algarve University
University of Bristol
Collective Intelligence
University of Cape Town
Edinburgh Napier University
CESI
UCL
UCL
University of Hertfordshire
University of Hertfordshire