Joanna Kennedy

Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE FREng FICE, (born 22 July 1950), is a British civil engineer and project manager. She is currently a non-executive director of the property company Native Land and a director of the ERA Foundation, having been Global Leader for Programme and Project Management at Arup until 2013 (a Director from 1996). She is a Patron of Women into Science and Engineering (WISE), which she helped launch in 1984. She became a Trustee of Cumberland Lodge in 2001 and in June 2015 was appointed a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.

Born Joanna Alicia Gore Ormsby, in London, Kennedy was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and Queen Anne's School, Caversham and 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.

Kennedy joined Ove Arup & Partners, consulting engineers, in 1972 and her projects as a design engineer included the M25 Runnymede Bridge 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 and 2012.

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