Robert Mair

The Right Honourable The Lord Mair CBE
Robert Mair delivering a lecture in Cambridge, February 2013
Born	(1950-04-20) 20 April 1950 (age 66)
Fields	Geotechnical engineering Tunnel design & construction
Institutions	University of Cambridge Institution of Civil Engineers Crossrail Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG) Laing O'Rourke Scott Wilson Group The Leys School
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis	Centrifugal modelling of tunnel construction in soft clay (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Andrew N. Schofield
Known for	Jubilee Line Extension
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Website www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~rjm50

Robert James Mair, Baron Mair, CBE, FRS, FICE, FREng (born 20 April 1950) is a geotechnical engineer and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering. He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 2001 to 2011 and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2001. In 2014 he was elected a vice president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and on 1 November will become the Institution's President for 2017-18, its two hundredth anniversary year. On 13 October 2015 his appointment to be a peer in the House of Lords was announced. He sits as a Crossbencher.

Mair was educated at St Faith's and The Leys School in Cambridge and went on to study Engineering at Clare College, Cambridge gaining a MA degree in 1975 and a PhD degree in 1979.

Mair was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) in 1990, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1992, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. Mair delivered the 46th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. Mair has been awarded numerous research grants by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).