The SAICE Office Bearers

President: Neil Macleod was born and educated in Durban, South Africa, and graduated in 1972 with a B.Sc in Civil Engineering. He obtained an MBA in 1989, and is currently completing a PhD on the sustainable provision of water services to urban poor communities.

As a registered professional engineer he is a Fellow of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), a Fellow of the Institution of Municipal Engineers of Southern Africa (IMESA), as well as a Senior Fellow of the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA).

Neil has 30 years’ experience in the water and sanitation sector and has since 1992 been the head of Water and Sanitation at the eThekwini Municipality where he manages an organisation with over 2 500 staff members and an annual turnover in excess of R2,0 bn (USD300m) providing water and sanitation services to the Durban Metropolitan region.

His fields of expertise cover water supply (conservation, demand management, treatment and distribution), sanitation sewage collection and treatment and solid waste management, tariff design, and public/private partnerships. In this regard he has presented numerous papers at regional, national and international conferences and seminars.

He was the chairman of the committee that drafted the National Water Supply Regulations and serves on Steering Committees of the Water Research Commission. He is a director of the MIIU, a private company formed to promote private sector partnerships in the provision of municipal services in South Africa. He is also a director of Johannesburg Water (Pty) Ltd, as well as director (and currently chairman) of Building Partners for Development in Water and Sanitation, with head office in London. Neil served on the National Standing Committee on Water Supply and Sanitation (SCOWSAS) as chairman of the Sub-Committee on Pricing, Finance and Technology Choice, and also chairs the National Free Basic Water Services task team implementing free basic water

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Contact Neil on 27 (0) 31 311 8605 or e-mail him on nam@dmws.durban.gov.za

President Elect & Vice President - Growth & Participation: Mr Johan de Koker

Johan’s key experience lies within Spoornet in development and research of railway track- related products and processes, specifically in the areas of rail lubrication, insulated rail joints, rail profiling and corrosion, rail defects and fatigue, and technical audit of track. He developed various products and systems within Spoornet, some of which received international recognition, and presented more than twenty-five papers on technical and professional subjects.

Johan is presently working towards a Ph D at the University of Johannesburg. He obtained his Masters Diploma in Technology, Civil Engineering (Structural), in 1992 and was awarded the National Diploma for Technicians T4 (Civil Engineering) at the Technikon Witwatersrand in 1972.

As a Professional Engineering Technologist he serves on various ECSA accreditation and registration committees and was member of the ECSA Council from 2001 to 2005. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineering Technologists and served as president of that Institute from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2001. He chairs the Civil Engineering Technology Advisory Committee of the University of Johannesburg

Johan served on the Council of SAICET (SA Institute of Civil Engineering Technicians and Technologists) as vice-president before the merger with SAICE and has since then been serving on various SAICE committees and the SAICE Council. He has served as vice-president of SAICE since 2002.

He was honoured with the following awards:

• SAICE Railway and Harbours Engineering Division: John Brown Memorial Award for the best technical article published in 1994, as well as the Chairman’s Award 2006.
• SAICE President’s Award: joint recipient with wife Verelene in 1999 for their contribution to the SAICE SPEBS bursary scheme.
• SAIMechE - Transnet Award 2001 for best railway related technical article.

Contact Johan on 27 (0)11 773 2885 or e-mail: JohandeK@spoornet.co.za

Vice-President - Professional Development: Prof Elsabe Kearsley

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Contact elsabe on +27 (012) 420 2176 or e-Mail elsabe.kearsley@up.ac.za

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Vice President - Organizational Transformation:Chris Campbell

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Contact Chris on +27 (0)11 231 6173 or e-mail: Christopher.Campbell@transnetprojects.net

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Vice President - Relevance & Recognition: Mr Ali Naidu

Mr A Naidu, is presently the CEO of PD Naidoo and Associates based in the Johannesburg office. He graduated from the University of Natal with a BSc Eng degree. In 1993 he graduated with a post-graduate degree in Project Management specialising in project management.

As a graduate engineer he gained knowledge of the water supply field whilst spending time in the Department of Water Affairs planning department. He then moved on to gain valuable knowledge of Lesotho whilst designing access roads to the Katse dam under the guidance of experienced engineers of Van Wyk & Louw (Africon). The next several years were spent in the structural engineering environment where he specialized in industrial and commercial structures, predominantly in structural steelwork. He spent several years with South African Breweries in the Engineering and Projects Division, where he was responsible for project management of several large multi-disciplinary projects.

Upon joining PD Naidoo & Associates, he assumed the role of Managing Director where the technical focus of the business was his primary responsibility. He has involved in projects involving provision of basic infrastructure, design and management of various structural projects, design and management of infrastructure works including rural water schemes.

He currently serves on the Board of Consult Consortium, a private company appointed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, for the provision of basic water and sanitation in Mpumalanga (South Africa). Consult Consortium have been responsible for approximately R 150 million of rural water infrastructure. They have had the added responsibility of ensuring that the ISD (Institutional and Social Development) and O&M (Operations and Maintenance) were addressed. Mr. Naidu was involved in the business plan formulation for these aspects.

Contact Ali on +27 (0)11 877 0102 or e-mail: ali_naidu@pdna.co.za

Immediate Past President: Mr Salim Amod

Sam Amod has a B.Eng qualification from the University of Durban Westville and MSc(Eng) from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the managing principal of Development Engineering Consultants (DEC), which provides professional services for development and engineering in the built environment. Sam has 17-years experience covering engineering and project management. Fields of specialized expertise include the management of large projects, labour-based construction and public policy development. Sam contributes heavily to policy and strategic implementation of construction industry development and is the author or co-author of a number of papers on engineering design, contractor development, construction industry policy and transformation. He is also a Board member of the Construction Industry Development Board.

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Contact Sam on +27 (0)11 530 9700 or e-Mail sam@decjhb.co.za