Paul William Jowitt is a British civil engineer, Professor of Civil Engineering Systems at Heriot Watt University, and executive director of the Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology. On 3 November 2009, he became the 145th President of the

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a Charitable organization, charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters ar ...

. He was made a

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(CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to technology. He is currently President of the Commonwealth Engineers Council. He was elected in 2012 as a

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of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senio ...

. Jowitt graduated from

Imperial College Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a cultural district in South Kensington that included museums ...

in 1972, and lectured there from 1974 before moving to

Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University () is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute, and was subsequently granted university status by roya ...

in 1987 where he was head of civil and offshore engineering from 1989 to 1999. In 1997 he was an Erskine Fellow at the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury (UC; ; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbur ...

, New Zealand. He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

in 2005.Immediate Past President biography
(retrieved: 22 July 2013) He was the lead investigator in a Heriot-Watt/

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consortium on the

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...

-funded Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Environment Systems (ISSUES) project, intended to facilitate knowledge transfer for EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environments Programme. Previously he led a number of research projects from EPSRC, UKWIR and the UK Water Utilities on water distribution network reliability, drought management and sustainable wastewater treatment. His published work includes journal articles in ''Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability'', ''Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE'', ''Engineering Optimization''. and ''Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems'' (which Jowitt edits). Jowitt is chair of the engineering charity 'Engineers Against Poverty'.Engineers Against Poverty Bulletin, January 2011
(retrieved: 22 July 2013) He is a former trustee of the

Forth Bridge The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in ...

s Visitor Centre, and a trustee of The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jowitt, Paul Living people Date of birth missing (living people) British civil engineers Academics of Heriot-Watt University Academics of Imperial College London Alumni of Imperial College London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Year of birth missing (living people)