Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, CBE, EBS, FREng, is the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems, and Interim Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST), at Imperial College London. Formerly, he served as Head of the Centre for Transport Studies and Co-Director of the ISST. Ochieng has significantly contributed to the Department’s success, notably its best performance in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) and a 95.2% National Student Satisfaction score. He is the President of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Group (SMG). He chairs the Advisory Board of the Science Museum in London and the Africa Engineers Steering Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Ochieng holds a BSc in Engineering from the University of Nairobi and MSc and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham. With over 200 published scientific papers, he has supervised 60 PhD students and 30 Post-Doctoral Fellows. A pioneer of Europe’s space-based positioning, navigation and timing programme, his work includes developing navigation systems for land, sea, and air applications and contributing to the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management (SESAR) research and development programme. He advises the UK Government’s at the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), Department for Transport (DfT) and the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science & Technology. He is a Member of the Science and Technology Advisory Council of the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Program Steering Committee for DFID’s Sustainable Urban Economic Development (SUED) program for Kenya. His other research focus areas include infrastructure resilience, sustainable development, and international collaboration on global challenges.