Category: Council Members

Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng, EBS, FREng, is the current Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chair Professor in Positioning and Navigation Systems. He is also the Interim Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST) at Imperial College London. Formerly, he was the Head of the Centre for Transport Studies and Co-Director of the ISST at Imperial. In these roles Ochieng has enhanced and consolidated the global leadership of the Department and Institute in education, research and translation through a people-centric approach to delivery of the College’s mission underpinned by the values of respect, excellence, collaboration, innovation and integrity. Examples of the successes achieved to date is the contribution of the Department to the best ever performance by Imperial’s Engineering (the highest research power of any UK University) in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the highest National Student Satisfaction (NSS) at 95.2%, second best in the College at large.

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Prof. Emmanuel Mutisya is a seasoned project manager, sustainability specialist, researcher, education expert, and strategist in international development policy with more than 10 years of professional and program management experience. Prof. Mutisya is currently the Chairperson of the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI), a Visiting Professor at the University of Nairobi, a Board Member at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, and a Senior Consultant of Education and Skills Development at the African Development Bank.

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