The Council is elected from the Society's membership and is the highest authority within the Society. The Council is chaired by the Society's President and oversees all aspects of the work of the Society. It is ultimately responsible for furthering the aims and objectives of the Society as laid out in the Royal Charter and By-Laws. It does this by determining policy and direction and ensuring adequate resources are brought to bear to pursue these objectives effectively and efficiently.
The Council consists of:
(a) The President — ex officio;
(b) The President-Elect — ex officio;
(c) Board Chairmen — ex officio;
(d) The Immediate Past President — ex officio;
(e) Divisional Presidents — ex officio;
(f) Branches Committee Chairman — ex officio;
(g) 18 elected Members of the Council on a three-year rotation (six to be elected per year);
(h) A maximum of three members of the Council co-opted on the sole grounds that an important area of the Society’s interest is not otherwise represented on Council.
The President-Elect is the sole Vice-President.
Elected members of the Council are elected by the Voters by ballot. Members of the Council, who must be members of the Society, serve for three years and are eligible for re-election for a second term of three years. After a maximum of six years elected members of the Council stand down from the Council for at least one year. Following such an interval year the member is eligible for election to the Council as a new candidate.
The Council must include at least three and not more than seven members who are neither Members, nor Companions nor Fellows and a sufficient number of registered engineers or technicians as will meet any applicable requirements of the Engineering Council.
The Council discusses a wide range of issues at its four meetings each year. These include:
• Matters relating to Society Policy and Strategy
• Matters of a more general nature that the Society may wish to take a position on
• Matters relating to its legal responsibilities, such as annual accounts, etc.
• Matters relating to budgets and other financial issues
• Election of the President, President-Elect, Board Chairmen, Co-opted Members of Council and Honorary positions
• Matters relating to the By-Laws and the Royal Charter.
Many of the Society's Council are senior figures from the aerospace industry who give freely their time in order to further the objectives of the Society. Indeed, previous and current members of the Council read like a 'Who's Who' of UK
2011-12 Council
President
Mr Lee Balthazor, BTech(Hons) MSc DMS CEng FAPM FCMI FRAeS
President-Elect
Mr Phil Boyle BSc(Eng) MSc CEng MIEE MRAeS
Past -President
AVM David Couzens MA MBA DLUT CEng FIMechE FRAeS
Board Chairmen
Mr Richard Case CBE DL MSc CEng FREng FRAeS (External Affairs Board)
Mr Philip Riley FRAeS (Finance Board Chairman & Honorary Treasurer)
Air Cdre Bill Tyack CBE FRAeS RAF (Learned Society Board)
AVM Charles Ness CB BEng CEng FRAeS RAF (Professional Standards Board)
Mr Mark Lees (Young Persons Board)
Mr Mike Goulette FRAeS (Branches Committee Chairman)
Elected members
Prof David Allerton BSc CEng FIEE FRAeS
Prof Chris Atkin MA PhD CEng FRAeS
Mr Roger Beazley CBE AFC BA(Hons) FRAeS
Mr David Baxter CEng FRAeS
Mrs Jenny Body FRAeS
Mr Martin Broadhurst FRAeS
Mr Ronald Carr AMRAeS
Mr David Chinn BSc(Hons) CEng FRAeS MIET AIL
His Honour Harvey Crush FRAeS
Capt John Faulkner FRAeS
Mr Martyn Hurst MA CEng FIMechE FRAeS
Mr Guy Lachlan
Dr Stephen Liddle MEng(Hons) MRAeS
Mrs Joanne Lindsay Eur Eng BSc CPhys MInstP CEng MAPM MRAeS
Mr Keith Mans BA FRSA FRAeS
Dr Thurai Rahulan BSc(Hons) PhD AMIMechE
ACM Sir Glenn Torpy GCB CBE DSO BSc(Eng) FCGI FRAeS
Mr Alisdair Wood BEng CEng MSc MRAeS
Division Presidents
AM Salim Arshad FRAeS (Pakistan Division)
Mr Andrew Drysdale FRAeS (Australian Division)
Mr Rob Jonkers FRAeS (South African Division)
Mr Gerard Robertson MRAeS (New Zealand Division)
Co-opted Council Members
Capt Ellen Burridge
Mr Andy Stevens
Air Cdre David Wilby