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Presidents of the Concrete Society
1966
The inaugural President
Sir Fredrick Snow was the Inaugural President of the Concrete Society. He was also president of the Institution of Structural Engineers (1947-1948) and was invested as a knight bachelor on 11 November 1965.
1967
Professor P F Stott
1968
A C Little
1969
J S Derrington
1970
A R Pittendrigh
1971
Sir K Wood
1972
J F C Gayner
1973
Arthur H Brown
1974
Professor Adam M Neville
1975
N Royce
1976
J W Turner
1977
J B Jefferson
1978
W F T Austin
1979
Ken G Jessop
1980
Peter J O Burgess
1981
Arthur H Brown
The first (but not the last) President of the Society to serve two terms as President.
1982
Derek M Lambert
1983
Professor A R Cusens
1984
W K Roberts
1985
Ian C Thornton
1986
Dr Jan Bobrowski
1987
Colin E Mansfield
1988
Jack Rodin
1989
Eamon A O'Leary
1990
Bob (Robert) A Hartland
1991
Michael R Hawkins
1992
Ted (Edward) C Chaplin
1993
John M Grigg
1994
A B R (Brian) Green
1995
Professor Peter C Hewlett
1996
Gordon Adam
1997
Professor Peter J M Bartos
1998
Professor Peter C Hewlett
Peter was first President in 1995 and returned to the Presidency in 1998 and 1999.
2000
Professor Ted (Edward) Kay
2001
Kathy Calverley MBE
Kathy was President of the Society in 2001 and went on to be Managing Director of the Society from 2011 to 2024.
2002
Dr John Newman
2003
Dr Howard Taylor
2004
Bob Cather
2005
Peter Goring
2006
Peter Robery
Peter served a two-year term as President, and at the time of writing is still an active member of the Society’s Technical Committee.
2008
Brian Foley
2009
Professor Ravi K Dhir
2010
David M J Ball
2011
Alastair Stables
The Byelaws of the Society were changed such that Presidents would serve a two year term.
2013
Paul Browne
Paul is currently serving as Honorary Treasurer and is past Chair of the Scotland region.
2015
Martyn Fear
Martyn is also past Chair of the Wales region.
2017
William Doherty
William is also past Honorary Treasurer, and past Chair of the Northern Ireland region.
2019
Deiniol Williams
Deiniol is also past Honorary Treasurer, and past Chair of the Wales region.
2021
Nick Dawson
Nick is also past Chair of the Yorkshire & Humberside region.
2023
Michael Amodeo
Read our Meet the President interview with Mike.
2025
Steve Thorpe
Read the Meet the President interview with Steve.