Joanna Kennedy
Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE FREng FICE, (born 22 July 1950),[1] is a British civil engineer and project manager. She was Global Leader for Programme and Project Management at Arup until 2013 (a Director from 1996 to 2013), and is currently a director of the ERA Foundation[2] and a Patron of Women into Science and Engineering (WISE), which she helped launch in 1984.[3]
Early life, education and family
Born Joanna Alicia Gore Ormsby, in London, Kennedy won a scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; she was one of just three females among over a hundred engineering students and graduated with first class honours in Engineering Science and the ICE Prize.[4]
Career
Kennedy joined Ove Arup & Partners, consulting engineers, in 1972[5] and her projects as a design engineer included the M25 Runnymede Bridge[6] and St Paul’s Thameslink station. She was a founder of the firm’s project management practice in 1990, became its leader for Europe in 2006 and was appointed Global Leader for Programme and Project Management in 2010. The practice was the APM Project Management Company of the Year in both 2007[7] and 2012.[8] She was project director for redevelopments at the Southbank Centre designed by Richard Rogers, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall,[9] Hackney Empire, the Horniman Museum and she led the design team for the remodelled King's Cross St. Pancras tube station. From 2009 to 2013 she was project director for the planned Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre.[10]
Kennedy's public appointments have included Vice Chairman of the Port of London Authority,[11] a Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, a Trustee of the Science Museum[12] and a member of the Engineering Council.[13]
Honours and awards
- 1994: Honorary Doctor of Science at the University of Salford
- 1995: Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours[14]
- 1997: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2007: Woman of the Year at the Atkins Inspire Awards for the built environment [15]
- 2008: Woman of Outstanding Achievement – For Leadership and Inspiration to Others.[16]
- 2013: First Woman of Engineering at the CBI/Real Business Awards.[17][18]
References
- ↑ "‘KENNEDY, Joanna Alicia Gore’, Who's Who 2014". A&C Black. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "ERA Foundation Board". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "History of WISE". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ Richmond, Caroline (7 June 1984). "Joanna Kennedy: A builder of bridges". New Scientist: 38.
- ↑ "Debretts People of Today". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ Taylor, Allegra (June 1985). "Women engineering change". Illustrated London News: 34–37.
- ↑ "Arup win Project Management Company of the Year".
- ↑ "APM award winners 2012".
- ↑ "Shiver my timbers (RIBA journal December 2002)".
- ↑ "Background to the DNRC". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "Inspiring Women Engineers". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "ERA Board: Dr Joanna Kennedy".
- ↑ Richmond, Caroline (7 June 1984). "Joanna Kennedy: A builder of bridges". New Scientist: 38.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 1995". London Gazette. Supplement: 12. 17 June 1995.
- ↑ Arnold, Damian (15 August 2007). "Inspirational Force: Joanna Kennedy, Woman of the Year". New Civil Engineer.
- ↑ "Inspiring Women Engineers". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "Joanna Kennedy wins First Woman of Engineering Award 2013". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ "First Women Awards Winners 2013".