Call our helpline +44 (0)20 7344 5498 Home About us How we can help Health & wellbeing Employment & education Money & debt Donate Contact us Trustees Like all charities, we are led by a Board of Trustees. All of our trustees are IET members and help to ensure that we are run effectively and with IET members' interests at heart. GRAHAM PATERSON Chairman Following a 38 year career as an engineer in the Royal Air Force, Graham joined the staff of the then IEE in 2003. He became Head of Policy in April 2005 and until December 2010 was Director of Governance and Policy with responsibility for legal and governance activity including the Board of Trustees and Council, public affairs, PR and communications. In addition to being a Trustee of IET Connect, he is an IET Fellowship assessor, holds various voluntary appointments for other charities and is an athletics field events official. ARLENE MCCONNELL Treasurer Arlene McConnell has been a member of the IET since 2005 when she joined as a student whilst reading Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Glasgow University. She has been a member of the board of Trustees at IETConnect for the last 3 years recently taking up the position of Treasurer. Arlene is currently employed by Selex-ES as a Principal Systems Engineer where she leads the Systems team working on the ES-05 Raven Radar for the Gripen Fighter Jet. DON BROWN Chairman of the Local Representative Committee Don Brown has been a full member of the IEE/IET since 1974 and before that a student member. In addition to being a Trustee of IET Connect, he is the Chairman of the Local Representative Assembly (LRA) and is also the Local Representative for Coventry and Warwickshire. He attends Local Network meetings. He helps blind and partially sighted people use computers and home technology. He is a trustee for a local Church and runs courses in computing and technology for elderly people. He has been involved in re-writing policy documents for IET Connect and is the link between Trustees and Local Representatives/Volunteers. AMANDA L DOWD Chairwoman of the Case Review Committee Amanda works for WMG (previously Warwick Manufacturing Group) at the University of Warwick. She has been the Academic Director of Graduate Studies for the Group since 1995, which role involves responsibility for award-wide academic quality issues and acting as the main interface between the Department and the University central administration and governance in matters relating to taught postgraduate and post-experience courses. She also has specific responsibility for the department’s collaborative programmes which operate in the Far East and the Eastern Mediterranean. She has long been an active volunteer with the IET and IET Connect. SIMON HART IET Trustee Representative Dr Hart specialises in motor and converter control and leads an international team as Principal Development Engineer with Emerson Control Techniques, a variable speed motor drive manufacturer. Simon has been an active member of the IET for over 20 years starting as a student member. He is currently a Trustee of the IET and is a former chairman of the IET Council and the Shropshire Local Network. Simon is a member of the Control and Automation Technical and Professional Network executive and a STEM Ambassador. JACK AUST Trustee Jack has recently retired from full time employment having spent most of his working life operating and maintaining large industrial facilities in the UK and Africa. He has been an active member of the Devon and Cornwall local IET committee serving as Chairman and Secretary and now being the IET Connect representative. He was very pleased to become a trustee and believes it is important that there is awareness of the increasing services provided for members and dependants and to ensure it has continuing funding for the future. JEAN BROWNSWORD Trustee Jean is currently taking a career break to raise her two young sons. She volunteers with various community groups and is the IET Connect Local Representative for Birmingham as well as a member of the Case Review Committee and the Audit Committee. A member of the IEE/IET since 1996, Jean has served as an IEE & IET Trustee. Previous professional roles include Project Engineer at Omron Automotive Electronics, Project Manager at the Welsh Electronics Forum and Engineer at International Rectifier EMS. ALAN STUBBS Trustee Alan retired in 1999 after 42 years in electrical engineering working in electrical manufacturing, chemical and foodstuffs industries. He retired again in 2010 after serving 12 years as a JP, chairing in both the criminal and family courts. He has been actively involved with the Benevolent Fund since 1998. Initially as a Local Representative for the Merseyside and North Wales branch, then as a member of the Case Committee for 6 years and has been a Trustee of IET Connect since 2010. Along with various retired type activities such as grandchildren he is a volunteer for the National Trust at Nuffield Place in Oxfordshire. CHARLOTTE JOYCE Trustee Charlotte has worked in the Further Education sector since 2012 and is currently the Team Leader for Aerospace Engineering at Newcastle Aviation Academy. Prior to this she served as a commissioned officer in the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) where she was named the Institute of Engineering and Technology Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2011 following the inaugural operational deployment of the Apache Attack Helicopter in the maritime role. A keen skier and rower she also keeps pigs, sheep and poultry on her smallholding in Cumbria. 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