Giles Hartill to become IMechE President 2023/2024

We are pleased to announce Giles Hartill will become the next IMechE President in 2023 after serving a year as joint Deputy President with Clive Hickman OBE.

Clive Hickman will serve as President in the 2024/2025 year.

The Trustee Board made the decision to select Giles to be the next President following the recommendation of current President Phil Peel, after agreement with Giles and Clive.

Giles Hartill, who is a Fellow of the Institution, said:

“It will be a huge honour to serve as the next IMechE President at such a key moment for the Institution. I am delighted to be working this year with Clive as joint Deputy President to continue to strengthen our governance and leadership across the Institution to enable us to achieve our vision to be a world-leading, and inclusive engineering membership organisation.”

This decision is a result of this year being a transition year from the Trustee Board having one President-Elect to having two Deputy President positions.

The decision took into account that neither Giles or Clive has any personal or professional commitments that would prevent them taking up the office of President for either 2023/24 and 2024/25 and both can be flexible about how long they serve as Deputy President.

Given the importance of the strategy development work, Giles will remain as Chair of the Strategy Committee to continue to oversee current activities and then as President will champion the roll-out of the work next year.

The decision to switch from one President-elect to two Deputy Presidents was made to increase practical support for the President to ensure they can carry out their duties with a reasonable workload.

Giles is Chief Engineer for defence company AWE and you can read his biography here

Clive is Chief Executive of the Coventry-based Manufacturing Technology Centre and you can read his biography here.