Monday, June 21, 2021

Dr Jo Da Silva


Dame Joanna Gabrielle da Silva DBE FREng FICE (born 1967) is the Director of International Development at Arup Group. She studied engineering at the University of Cambridge where she was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3][4] She graduated in 1988 and then travelled, seeing the roles of engineers first-hand. She worked in central India on emergency management.[2]  Da Silva was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2017 for her work in urban resilience.[28] She delivered her Gold Medal lecture at Trinity College Dublin in 2018, talking about Design, Disaster and Development.[18] She delivered the 2018 Judith Neilson Lecture at the University of New South Wales.[12]

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