ONR Chair
Dame Judith Hackitt was appointed as Chair of ONR in January 2024 for an interim period during which a recruitment campaign will be conducted to select ONR’s next permanent Chair. An engineer by profession, she holds a degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College, London.
Formerly Chair of the Health and Safety Executive, Make (UK) Limited and Enginuity (an engineering and manufacturing skills body), Dame Judith is currently a Director of Ingeniators Limited and an advisor on Building Safety matters for the UK Government and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Royal Academy of Engineering. She also served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of HS2 until the end of January 2024, becoming the Independent Chair of HS2’s Health, Safety and Security Committee on 1 February 2024.
Dame Judith spent more than 20 years in the private sector working in an industrial environment with extensive international experience. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010, and is also a Fellow and former President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute.
She was awarded a CBE in 2006 for services to Health and Safety, followed by a DBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to health and safety and engineering.
Register of Interests
| 1 | Companies, partnerships, trusts or other bodies of which you are a paid employee. | None |
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| 2 | Companies and organisations in which you or your family or close associates: |
Ingeniators LTD HS2: Independent Chair of the Health Safety and Security Committee |
| a) has/have a controlling interest, or | ||
| b) is/are a Director or Partner, or | ||
| c) has/have shares or securities with a nominal value of more than £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issues share capital, and | ||
| d) could be involved in the supply of goods or services to, or have business dealings with the ONR | ||
| 3 | Non-profit making organisations (e.g. charities, housing associations) where you or your close family are Trustees, or on the Committee of Management or other controlling body and which might receive grants, carry out activities designed to promote or develop the organisation, or have other significant dealings with the ONR. | Trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering from September 2024 for 3 years |
| 4 | Any land or property in which a member has a direct interest and is clearly within ONR's sphere of activities. | None |
| 5 | Membership of local authorities, health authorities and trusts, the Magistrates Bench, and relevant voluntary sector bodies. | None |