The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has announced the appointment of six new board members.

Appointed by Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan MP, board members will work under the leadership of Lynda Armstrong OBE, Chair of the ECITB.

The ECITB Board, which is made up of employer representatives and several independent members, sets the strategic direction and monitors performance of the ECITB, with a majority drawn from levy payers.

The new trustees will help steer the ECITB and hold the executive team to account for the delivery of the ECITB’s strategy to grow the engineering construction industry (ECI) skills base. They will also act as ambassadors to champion the ECITB’s work as the statutory skills organisation for the industry in the UK.

The new board members are:

Mark Riley, Project Controls Lead, Emerging Energy, Phillips 66 Limited
Helen Higgs, Head of Construction Workforce Capability, EDF Energy
Andrew Colquhoun, Executive Vice President, Altrad
Richard Law, Managing Director, Technica Limited
Mark Fotheringham, Technical Director, Infinity Engineering
Professor Paul de Leeuw, Director, Energy Transition Institute, Robert Gordon University

The ECITB is an arms-length body of the UK government, reporting to its sponsor, the Department for Education (DfE).

The process of appointing six new board members was managed by DfE, with a panel conducting the first and second interviews that was chaired by a representative of the DfE and also included Lynda Armstrong and an independent member.

The panel submitted a list of finalists to Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education Robert Halfon MP for approval and the appointments were also reviewed and approved by Scottish ministers.

Chair Lynda Armstrong said: “The new members are industry figures and together represent the wide range of sectors and regions in which the ECI operates. They bring to the board a real breadth of expertise and knowledge of the engineering construction industry.”

Find out more about the ECITB Board and governance structures here

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