Invitation:

Join us on Thursday 22 August 2024 for the Roderick Distinguished Lecture for 2024, in which we will hear from Dr Christian Christodoulou, Chief Engineer at Transport for NSW.

'Value Creation in Public Service and learning from the past to face the challenges of tomorrow'

Christian is a Chartered Engineer, Engineering Executive and Fellow across UK and Australia. He is a senior executive at Transport for New South Wales as the Chief Engineer and acting Executive Director, Asset Management, with accountability for leading the strategic engineering and technical capability frameworks alongside assurance and risk management across the lifecycle of a $211bn network asset portfolio across rail, metro, roads, maritime, buses and active transport.

Christian will cover his engineering journey, highlighting the importance of engineering in our living world, some of the challenges we are faced as engineers and how we can use our learnings to deliver solutions and create new paradigms. He will also take us through a short journey of what is public value, how it is created in public service and offer practical examples from his work within Transport for New South Wales.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday 22 August 2024
Venue: PNR Building J02 Lecture Theatre 2 (Rm302), The University of Sydney
Time: 6-7 pm
Refreshments outside of PNR LT2: 7 pm
Registration: please CLICK HERE to register

RSVP by Monday 17 August 2024

This is an in-person event, and will not be livestreamed or recorded

The Roderick Distinguished Lecture Series

The Roderick Distinguished Lecture Series brings the leaders of industry, academia and government to the University to present to the civil engineers of today and tomorrow the challenges and opportunities which they and their organisations face and the role that civil engineering plays in their work environment.

The Roderick Lectures are an initiative of the Council for Civil Engineering Sydney, an industry advisory group formed to assist the School of Civil Engineering to deliver world-class education and research through an inclusive program of engagement between industry and academia at all levels.

The Roderick Lectures are promoted widely to the students as well as the industry network of the School of Civil Engineering

The Roderick Lecture series acknowledges Professor Jack William Roderick who, as Head of School from 1951 to 1978, initiated programs of engagement with industry to build and to augment the teaching and research programs of the School through the Graduates Association and the Civil Engineering Foundation.