John Dora has over forty years' experience in managing infrastructure, including flood risk management and asset management of railway structures. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor University of Birmingham. John is a recognised international expert on climate change adaptation and standards. His clients include or have included the UN, the UK Met Office, Copernicus Climate Services, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and CEN/CENELEC, the European Standards’ organisations. He co-founded (in 2012) and chairs the UK’s Infrastructure Operators’ Adaptation Forum. In August 2020 he became the convenor of the team responsible for ISO’s strategy for international climate change adaptation standards.

He won a BSI Standards’ Makers’ Award for creativity for his convenorship of the group that drafted ISO 14090 which was published in 2019, and in 2017 the Institution of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Asset Management Prize for the paper Towards the future-proofing of UK infrastructure. As well as his expertise in infrastructure, resilience and adaptation, John is an accomplished lecturer, designing and delivering courses on sustainability, asset management and resilience at the Universities of Birmingham and Surrey.

John continues to work in the field of infrastructure resilience and engineering. In 2019 he helped form Climate Sense and is a director of that firm.

Affiliations:

Chair of the national Infrastructure Operators' Adaptation Forum

Member of BSI's Climate Adaptation Group

Member of ISO's Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Task Force

Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Professional Conduct Panel

Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Sustainability, Resilience and Inclusion Community Advisory Board