Trustees
Jim Hall FREng
JBA Trust’s Chair of the Board of Trustees, Jim Hall, is Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks and Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. His research focuses upon management of climate-related risks in infrastructure systems, in particular relating to flooding, coastal erosion and water scarcity.
Rob Lamb MA PhD
Managing Director Rob Lamb has over 30 years’ experience in academic and applied research in hydrology, computational hydraulics, flood risk analysis and climate change assessment. Rob has published work in numerous journals and is co-author of two text books. Since 2008, Rob has been Chief Scientist to the JBA Group, leading JBA’s scientific research and development. In 2013 Rob was made an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University.
Jeremy Benn FREng
Jeremy is a Director of the Trust and the founder and Chairman of the JBA Group. He has over 40 years’ water engineering, management and hydrology experience in the UK and internationally. Jeremy has particular interests in computational hydraulics and hydrological modelling and is an expert on the assessment and management of scour risk to engineered structures.
Joanne Coles FRMetS FCIWEM
Jo is a Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society with over 20 years experience working in weather and flood forecasting. As a STEM Learning Ambassador Jo is particularly passionate about the communication of science and encouraging children and young people into STEM subjects and careers.
Peter Jimack FIMA
Peter is Professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Leeds, where he is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics. Previously he has held roles including Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (2010-2019) and interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Student Education (2020-2021).
Nick Russell ACIB
Nick is a Director of the Trust. Having gained almost 40 years’ experience in corporate banking he is now an independent financial consultant.
Past Trustees
Keith Beven FRS
Keith is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University. He is the first hydrologist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 50 years. His main research interests are in hydrological modelling and understanding the prediction uncertainties associated with environmental models. Keith is the most highly cited in the field, and has published 10 books and over 450 papers.
