At the start of my presidency, I set out three priorities: supporting sustainability and alignment across the Institution, strengthening membership services and scaling trusted communities that support members across disciplines and career stages. These priorities are closely connected. A sustainable, influential Institution depends on engaged members, strong services create value for the profession, and trusted communities enable the exchange of knowledge, experience and challenge that strengthens us all.
Maritime engineering is increasingly global, digital and interconnected, creating remarkable opportunities for innovation and collaboration, but also greater complexity through specialised disciplines, distributed organisations and