Highlights from an interview with Rachel Skinner, president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Rachel Skinner is the 156th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the youngest-ever president and only the second woman to hold the post in its 203-year history.

In her presidential address, Skinner highlighted the overwhelming need for infrastructure professionals to place tackling climate change and meeting global net-zero carbon targets at the heart of their decisions. She warned that, as a profession and as a society, “We still aren’t doing enough about the biggest, most urgent, and most complex problem to ever face the world.”