National President’s Agenda 2007

Rolfe HartleyNational President, Engineers Australia

Priorities for 2007

• Task Force for the Future

• Governance

• Year of Women in Engineering

Task Force for the Future

• Aim: To carry forward the good work done by the Council/Congress Committees in 2006

• Committees with an on-going role– Sustainability, Educational Linkages, CPD

• Task Force for the Future to further the work of– 2020 Committee, Stakeholder Liaison, Membership

Development, Succession Planning

• Terms of Reference in recent paper sent by email

Task Force for the Future• Chair: Rebecca Barker• Three Subgroups

– Engineering Practice and CPD of the Future (Peter Godfrey)– Strategic Communication (Julie Hammer)– Models for Value Management with members (Carol Jelley)

• Rolfe Hartley, David Hobbs, YEANC rep, Les Wallace• Links to Engineering Team Task Force (Julie Hammer)• EOIs for Subgroups by 16 Feb• First TFF Meeting 23 February.

Governance

• Significant advances in corporate governance

• New Division and Membership Regulations

• Governance workshops

• And the future?

Year of Women in Engineering

• To celebrate the achievements and contributions of women to engineering

• To increase awareness of the diversity, competence, success, influence and passion of women engineers.

• Significant program of events in each Division and nationally– Julie Bishop Symposium

– WFEO Colloquium

– Substantial media interest.