11 Facts About Mark Whitby

Mark Whitby, BSc, FICE, FREng, Hon FRIBA, was born on 29 January 1950 and is a British structural engineer, and a past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Mark Whitby was a British sprint canoeist, representing Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event.

Mark Whitby developed a media profile and started to be consulted on engineering issues for TV and radio.

Mark Whitby remained with the company, and when in April 2009 it became Ramboll UK, he was named Chairman, a position he retained until he left later the same year.

Between 2010 and 2016, Mark Whitby was a director of structural engineering consultancy Davies Maguire + Mark Whitby, which he co-founded in 2010.

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Mark Whitby served as a Member of Council at the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1993 to 1996.

Mark Whitby has been instrumental in the formation of a number of organisations that cover the broad culture of engineering.

Mark Whitby founded Engineering Timelines, an education charity that runs a website on the history of engineering.

Mark Whitby is President of the Trustees of CODEP, a construction industry-led charity working in London and Sierra Leone.

Mark Whitby appeared with archaeologist Julian Richards in the BBC TV series, Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge, in which the team tried to move and erect simulated standing stones using only the technologies available to prehistoric builders.

Mark Whitby has taught at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association.