Name
Prof Jim Hall
Job Title
Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission; President, Institution of Civil Engineers; and Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford
Speaker Bio
Professor Jim Hall is the 160th ICE President.
Prof Hall is a professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.
Prof Hall is a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission. He was a member of the UK Independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.
He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment. Prof Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI).
Among various distinctions, Prof Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Prof Hall is a professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis for water resource systems, flooding and coastal engineering, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.
Prof Hall is a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and is a commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission. He was a member of the UK Independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019.
He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the ICE’s influential National Needs Assessment and for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment. Prof Hall invented, and now chairs, the UK Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI).
Among various distinctions, Prof Hall was awarded the ICE’s George Stephenson Medal in 2001 and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2018. He was a contributing author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.