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Colin Clinton

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Colin Clinton was a civil engineer.

Colin John Clinton is a British civil engineer who has worked as a director of the Arup Group engineering consultancy. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2004–05.

Biography Colin Clinton was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1956 or 1957, and holds a bachelor of science degree from Aston University, Birmingham. He spent much of his career with Arup Group, the engineering consultancy and designer. By 1999, he was an associate of the firm and business manager of its Arup Transport division.

By 1999, Clinton was a member of the ICE's governing council and by 2004 was a vice-president. He served as president of the ICE for the November 2004 to November 2005 session, at that time the youngest person to have held the role. In December 2004 he worked with future ICE presidents Gordon Masterton and Quentin Leiper to update the ICE's core values. Clinton held 100 "question time" sessions with workers and directors of engineering firms in 2005. He made around 15 visits abroad in 2005 and toured Africa for the ICE in February.

Clinton was an advocate of mergers between the professional institutions and advocated for a single Institute for the Built Environment to be established by a merger of the ICE, the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was also a keen proponent of greater European integration as a means of addressing the skills shortage in the industry.

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Born
Staffordshire, Walsall
Occupation
Education
Aston University, Institution of Civil Engineers

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British civil engineer

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