Prof. Anusha Shah is the immediate past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She is a Senior Director for Resilient Cities and UK Climate Adaptation Lead for Arcadis in London. A Non-Executive Director for UK Met Office and a Trustee at the Green Alliance. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and lectures widely in many universities, including the University of Cambridge. Anusha is also a past chair of the Thames Estuary board.

She has over 24 years’ experience in designing, managing and leading water, environment and wider infrastructure projects in the UK and globally. She was honoured with Doctor of Engineering by University of East London and also Heriot Watt University for her services to climate change and with Honorary Professorship by University of Wolverhampton for Knowledge exchange and recently with Amity University in India. She has contributed to several national and international articles and reports on water, climate change, equity and inclusion topics and has won multiple awards including UK’s Top 50 Women Engineers in Sustainability and CECA Inspiring Engineers Award.