Janet Young had been in government role less than a year
The Institution of Civil Engineers has appointed a senior Cabinet Office staffer as its new director general and secretary.
Dr Janet Young will assume the role in the new year, moving from public service where she headed up the Government Property Profession, responsible for the government estate strategy.
Prior to her Cabinet Office role, which she only took up in January, Young worked as a global director of estates for the British Council, director of estate for the Ministry of Justice and head of asset management in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She is also a Major Projects Leadership Academy graduate of the Saïd Business School and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Young takes over from Nick Baveystock, who announced in April that he would leave ICE after a decade in the job.
ICE president Keith Howells said she brought “exactly the skills” the institution needs as it “wrestles with the challenges of net zero, the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the practical issues that our industry faces on a day-to-day basis.”
Howells, a former chair of Mott MacDonald, was himself inaugurated as president earlier this month.
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