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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”)