About Roger

Professional Qualifications and Fellowships

Chartered Engineer – CEng
Chartered Environmentalist – CEnv
Chartered Water and Environmental Manager – C.WEM
European Engineer – EurIng
Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) – FREng
Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) – FREng
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering – ForMemCAE
Fellow, European Academy of Sciences – FEurASc
Fellow, Learned Society of Wales – FLSW
Fellow, City and Guilds of London Institute – FCGI
Fellow, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) – FICE
Fellow, Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management – FCIWEM
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – FASCE

Key Consultancy and Advisory Appointments(Since 1990)

Member, Independent Expert Group (of 3), London Flood Review, Thames Water Appointee
Member, Welsh Government National Infrastructure Commission, Flooding Impacts Project Advisory Group
Director, Tidal Engineering & Environmental Services Ltd., engaged in designing of West Somerset Lagoon
Member, Welsh Government Hinkley Point C (nuclear plant) Stakeholder Reference Group
Member, Yorkshire Region Flood and Coastal Committee, Environment Agency Appointee
Member, Steering Group, Mersey Tidal Power Project, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Director, Dragon River & Tidal Ltd., responsible for turbine engineering development
Member, Technical Advisory Board, Natural Energy Wyre Ltd., Wyre Tidal Gateway
Consultant, ITP Energise Technical Support to Hendry Review of Tidal Lagoons
Member, Government Office, National Flood Resilience Science Advisory Group
Member, RAEng Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize, Search Committee
Member, Regional Committee and Expert Panel of Hafren Power Ltd., engaged in designing Severn Barrage
Advisor, Corlan Hafren Ltd – consortium of companies to develop Severn Barrage
Member, Mersey Tidal Power – Design Advisory Group
Member, Global Water Security Steering Group (Reporting to Government Chief Scientist)
Member, Cardiff City Vision Forum – Severn Tidal Monitoring Group
Member, UK Government Expert Panel for Severn Estuary Tidal Power Studies
Member, Severn Tidal Power Strategic Environmental Assessment Steering Group
Chair, Marine Renewable Energy Task Group for Wales
Expert Witness, for Environment Agency at Public Inquiry, Preston Sewage Works, Southport
Member, Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Committee, Welsh Government Appointee
Advisor, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), Environment Division
Co-Chair, Group of Experts Singapore Land Reclamation Study (ITLOS)
Expert Witness, International Tribunal for Law of Sea case, Malaysia v. Singapore
Advisor, Marine Modelling Centre, Martin Ryan Institute, Galway, Eire
Expert Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysian Government
Technical Director, Floodguards International Ltd, Wokingham
Technical Consultant, MarCon Computations International Ltd, Galway, Eire
Consultant, Halcrow Group Ltd. and CH2M (Consulting Engineers)
Consultant, Tianjin Municipal Government, China
Member, Environment Agency Estuaries Advisory Committee
Advisor, Environment Agency on Anglian Flow Forecast Modelling System
Consultant, Hyder Consulting Ltd, (Consulting Engineers)
Member, Environment Agency Humber Estuary Advisory Committee
Advisor, US Navy Environment Division on Hydro-Ecology of Mugu Lagoon
Expert Evaluator of Danish Hydraulic Institute, for Danish Government
Advisor, BP Chemicals Ltd., Humber Estuary EIA Study
Advisor, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., Sellafield and Chapelcross EIA Studies
UN Expert on Mission, Central Water and Power Research Station, India
Advisor, Southern California Edison, USA, Wetland Management Project
Expert Witness, for National Rivers Authority at Public Inquiry, Integrated Treatment Centre, Hull

Key Learned society and Academic Appointments (Since 1990)

Member, Industrial Advisory Board, University of Bradford
Member, ICE Flooding Community Advisory Board
Co-Chair and Presenter, World Water Council Water Security Webinar
Chair, RAEng Global Talent Visa – Civil Engineering Sub-Panel
Member, Editorial Board of ‘Engineering’, Chinese Academy of Engineering Journal
Honorary Chair Professor, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Member, Review Panel for Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
Vice President, International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research
Board Member, Marine Renewable Energy Centre Ireland, Scientific Committee
Chair, CIWEM Professional Standards Committee
Member, CIWEM Board of Trustees
Founder and Advisory Board Member, IAHR Journal of Eco-hydraulics
Honorary Professor, Civil Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Guest Professor, Civil Engineering, Sichuan University, China
Founding Advisory Editor, IAHR Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research
Honorary Professor, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Member, ICE State of the Nation Report – Panel for Water
President, International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
Member, Research Excellence Framework REF2014, Main Panel Committee B
Chair, REF2014, Sub-Panel 14 Civil and Construction Engineering
Member, RAEng/ICE/CIWEM Global Water Security Steering Group
Member, Royal Society Brian Mercer Awards Panel
Member, Royal Academy of Engineering, Engineering Policy Committee
Editorial Board Member, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Advisory Board Member, Journal of Hydro-environmental Research
Member, Research Assessment Exercise 2008, Civil Engineering Sub-Panel
Guest Professor, Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Member, RAEng Committee for Research and Secondment
Founding Editor, IAHR Journal of River Basin Management
Founding Editor, ICE Journal of Water Management
Editor, Water and Maritime Engineering, ICE Proceedings
Elected Member, ICE Council
Member, RAEng Membership Panel
Subject Advisor, British Council Education Links Scheme
Elected Member, IAHR Council
Founding Editor, IWA Journal of Hydroinformatics
Elected Member, CIWEM Council
Chair, ICE Yorkshire Association
Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Chair, CIWEM Tyne and Humber Branch

Key Awards

RAEng Silver Medal (for “Outstanding and demonstrated personal contributions to British engineering leading to market exploitation”)
Member IAHR (for “Outstanding contributions in promoting the development of computational modelling in hydro-environment engineering and research and devoted service to IAHR”)
IAHR Ippen Award (for “Outstanding contributions in the area of computational flow modelling of coastal and estuarine waters and environmental problems”)
ICE Robert Alfred Carr Prize (for papers published in ICE Proceedings, 2002 and 2006)
ICE Telford Premium (for paper published in ICE Proceedings, 1993)
Hai He Award of Honour (for “Appreciation of Support for Development of Tianjin Municipality”)