Biography
Dick Fenner is Professor of Engineering Sustainability in Cambridge University's Engineering Department. He set up and led the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development for 18 years from 2002 to 2020. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. His research interests focus on water, sanitation and sustainability issues in both developed and developing countries, with a focus on urban drainage and water industry asset maintenance.
He is currently working on EU and research council funded projects on resilient nexus systems, urban flood resilience, rural water supply in Africa and environmental hazards in Bangladesh. Dick has published over 200 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers and has served on a number of editorial panels for the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Nature Sustainability and Sustainability and also on Steering Groups for the Environment Agency, Thames Water, Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) and the Building Research Establishment (BRE). He is a Fellow of Wolfson College and serves on the college's Sustainability Committee. He is the recipient of several awards from the ICE including the George Stephenson Gold Medal,
R A Carr Prize (twice: 2007 and 2020) and James Watt Medal, the Senior Moulton Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a University of Cambridge Pilkington Teaching Prize.
